- avant-garde jazz, grindcore, brutal prog
- 26 min
- 42 tracks
- Shimmy Disc
Torture Garden is an album by John Zorn's Naked City with vocalist Yamatsuka Eye. The album collects the 42 "hardcore miniatures" recorded by the band. Nine of these short intense improvisations were spread across Naked City and the other 33 would feature on the next album, Grand Guignol.
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Tracks
- 1Blood Is Thin1:03
- 2Demon Sanctuary0:42
- 3Thrash Jazz Assassin0:49
- 4Dead Spot0:35
- 5Bonehead0:56
- 6Speedball0:40
- 7Blood Duster0:18
- 8Pile Driver0:38
- 9Shangkuan Ling‐Feng1:19
- 10Numbskull0:32
- 11Perfume of a Critic’s Burning Flesh0:29
- 12Jazz Snob Eat Shit0:27
- 13The Prestidigitator0:48
- 14No Reason to Believe0:28
- 15Hellraiser0:42
- 16Torture Garden0:40
- 17Slan0:26
- 18Hammerhead0:12
- 19The Ways of Pain0:36
- 20The Noose0:13
- 21Sack of Shit0:49
- 22Blunt Instrument0:56
- 23Osaka Bondage1:18
- 24Igneous Ejaculation0:25
- 25Shallow Grave0:43
- 26Ujaku0:31
- 27Kaoru0:55
- 28Dead Dread0:49
- 29Billy Liar0:15
- 30Victims of Torture0:27
- 31Speedfreaks0:52
- 32New Jersey Scum Swamp0:44
- 33S & M Sniper0:17
- 34Pigfucker0:27
- 35Cairo Chop Shop0:26
- 36Fuck the Facts0:15
- 37Obeah Man0:21
- 38Facelifter0:60
- 39N.Y. Flat Top Box0:46
- 40Whiplash0:23
- 41The Blade0:43
- 42Gob of Spit0:20
42 tracks, 26 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Naked City
- Label
- Shimmy Disc
- Released
- 1990
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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