Grand Guignol (album)

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Grand Guignol
Grand Guignol cover
Studio album by Naked City
Released 1992
Recorded 1989 and 1992
Genre avant-garde, jazz, hardcore, thrash, noise, ambient
Length 62:00
Label Avant
Producer(s) John Zorn

Grand Guignol is the second studio album released by Naked City ("Torture Garden", though a full-length LP, was a collection of 'hardcore miniatures' from Naked City and Grand Guignol). The album is named after the infamous theater in Paris, which was open from 1897 to 1962. With most, if not all, of the Grand Guignol plays centered around extreme violence, it seems only fitting that the album's pieces (and titles) be equally violent in theme. The 'thrash' section of the album (tracks 2-34) generally consists of loud, fast pieces, complete with the wailing of Zorn's alto sax, and the sometimes tortured, sometimes hilarious screams of Yamatsuka Eye. Grand Guignol was remastered and re-released, along with all of Naked City's studio output, in 2005, when Tzadik released the Naked City Box Set. The remastered album contains "Grand Guignol (Version Vocale)", featuring Mike Patton.



[edit] Track listing

This is the track listing from the box set version

  1. Grand Guignol - 17:41
  2. Blood Is Thin - 1:02
  3. Thrash Jazz Assassin - 0:47
  4. Dead Spot - 0:33
  5. Bonehead - 0:54
  6. Piledriver - 0:36
  7. Shangkuan Ling-Feng - 1:16
  8. Numbskull - 0:31
  9. Perfume of A Critic's Burning Flesh - 0:26
  10. Jazz Snob: Eat Shit - 0:26
  11. The Prestidigitator - 0:46
  12. No Reason To Believe - 0:28
  13. Hellraiser - 0:41
  14. Torture Garden - 0:37
  15. Slan - 0:24
  16. The Ways of Pain - 0:33
  17. The Noose - 0:13
  18. Sack of Shit - 0:46
  19. Blunt Instrument - 0:56
  20. Osaka Bondage - 1:17
  21. Shallow Grave - 0:42
  22. Kaoru - 0:53
  23. Dead Dread - 0:48
  24. Billy Liar - 0:13
  25. Victims of Torture - 0:24
  26. Speedfreaks - 0:50
  27. New Jersy Scum Swamp - 0:44
  28. S/M Sniper - 0:17
  29. Pigfucker - 0:24
  30. Cairo Chop Shop - 0:25
  31. Facelifter - 0:57
  32. Whiplash - 0:22
  33. The Blade - 0:30
  34. Gob of Spit - 0:21
  35. La Cathedrale Engloutie - 6:24
  36. Three Preludes Op. 74: Douloureux, Déchirant - 1:17
  37. Three Preludes Op. 74: Très Lent, Contemplatif - 1:43
  38. Three Preludes Op. 74: Allegro Drammatico - 0:49
  39. Prophetiae Sybillarum - 1:46
  40. The Cage - 2:01
  41. Louange Á L'Eternité De Jésus - 7:08
  42. Grand Guignol (Version Vocale) - 17:41 (bonus track)

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[edit] Liner Notes

Decades before our modern tradition of Splatter films, The Grand Guignol served up torture, incest, blood lust, insanity, mutilation and death to generations of fervid spectators. But The Grand Guignol is not simply the theater of horror that shocked Paris for sixty-five years from 1897 to 1962. It is the celebration of the darker side of our existence. It has always been with us. It always will be.
Throughout history, Artists have been obsessed with humanities Taboos and Phobias: Aristotle, Aeschylus, Shakespeare, Sade, Goya, Poe, Dalí, Bataille, Hitchcock, Irving Klaw, Bacon, Dan Oniroku, H.G. Lewis, Hermann Nitsch, Carcass. Our fascination with Fear, Terror and Evil, like Death itself, knows no racial, cultural or religious barriers. It resides in our collective unconscious, binding us together with ropes we try, but are ultimately unable to sever. Only through violent trauma, or the convulsive viscera of artistic vision does it rise to the surface, reminding us that it has, in truth, been there all along.

This album is lovingly dedicated to Jack Smith. Legendary filmmaker, theatrical genius, exotic art collector. Father of the New York Underground, who died a victim of the AIDS virus September 18, 1989.



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