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Heretic (Naked City album)

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Absinthe is the third studio album by the band Naked City, used as a soundtrack for the underground S/M film Jeux des Dames Cruelles. It is a different kind of Naked City album, in that John Zorn is more improviser than composer.

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From a posting to rec.music.bluenote and alt.asian-movies, 20 Aug 1993: 

   I went to the Cinema Village during the Hong Kong film festival a few months ago, and John Zorn sat down in the seat next to me for ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA and SWORDSMAN 2 (both excellent of course).

   I took the opportunity to clear up a question that may be of interest to some of you folks: the Naked City album HERETIC JEUX DES DAMES CRUELLES (Avant 1) was not a sountrack to an actual film — not when it was recorded anyway. But subsequently a film was in fact made that used the album as its soundtrack. I think Zorn said that it was by some friend of his, a Japanese porn director. He also indicated that it would be virtually impossible for me to find it. Probably true.


According to the Knitting Factory, "Heretic is an experimental narrative in the form of an extended trailer. A very funny take on psychotherapy starring Karen Finley."



Track listing

  1. 1. Main Titles (Eye, Horvitz, Baron) – 1:26
  2. 2. Sex Games (Frisell, Frith, Baron) – 2:21
  3. 3. The Brood (Zorn, Horvitz, Baron) - 2:48
  4. 4. Sweat, Sperm + Blood (Eye, Zorn) - 2:03
  5. 5. Vliet (Frisell, Frith) - 0:49
  6. 6. Heretic 1 (Zorn, Frith) - 2:32
  7. 7. Submission (Horvitz, Frisell, Baron) - 4:21
  8. 8. Heretic 2 (Zorn, Frith, Baron) - 1:44
  9. 9. Catacombs (Horvitz, Frisell) - 2:46
  10. 10. Heretic 3 (Zorn, Frith, Baron) - 2:41
  11. 11. My Master, My Slave (Horvitz, Frith) - 2:23
  12. 12. Saint Jude (Frisell, Frith, Baron) - 2:12
  13. 13. The Conqueror Worm (Zorn, Horvitz) - 2:31
  14. 14. Dominatrix 5B (Horvitz, Frisell, Baron) - 2:16
  15. 15. Back Through the Looking Glass (Frisell, Frith) - 2:39
  16. 16. Here Come the 7,000 Frogs (Eye, Zorn) - 1:59
  17. 17. Slaughterhouse/Chase Sequence (Frisell, Frith, Baron) - 2:18
  18. 18. Castle Keep (Horvitz, Frisell) - 1:48
  19. 19. Mantra of Resurrected Shit (Eye, Zorn) - 1:41
  20. 20. Trypsicore (Horvitz, Baron) - 1:46
  21. 21. Fire and Ice (Club Scene) (Naked City) - 2:37
  22. 22. Crosstalk (Horvitz, Frisell, Frith) - 1:40
  23. 23. Copraphagist Rituals (Eye, Horvitz, Baron) - 0:53
  24. 24. Labyrinth (Frisell, Baron) - 5:47

Musicians

Liner Notes

  • All music by Naked City
  • Recorded and mixed at Shelley Palmer Studios, NYC 1991
  • Recording Engineer: Jason Baker
  • Mixing Engineer: Roger Moutenot
  • Mastering by Bob Ludwig
  • Digital editing by Scott Hull
  • Illustration by Maruo Suehiro
  • Typesetting by Lisa Wells
  • Designed by Tomoyo T.L. (Karath=Razar)
  • Executive Producer: Disk Union
  • Associate Producer: Kazunori Sugiyama
  • Produced by John Zorn
  • Special thanks to: Derek Bailey, Larry Ochs, Mike Patton, Shelley Palmer, Kazunori Sugiyama and Kim Su Theiler.
  • This record is dedicated to Harry Smith,
Mystic Animator, Pioneer Ethnomusicologist,
Hermetic Scholar, Creator of "Heaven + Earth Magic"
one of the greatest films of all time.
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