Naked City

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Oct 17, 2026

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John Zorn: The Alchemist of Avant-Garde Sound structures

Oct 17 · 2 Mentions

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Disruptive is putting it mildly.

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7:17

So 1989, he forms a band called Naked City, and he pulls together these elite musicians from vastly different backgrounds.

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7:23

You've got the jazz guitarist Bill Frisell and the, uh, vocal experimentalist Yamatsuka Eye.

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7:28

A crazy lineup.

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13:17

Exactly.

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13:18

Right.

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13:18

And the exact same vessel that holds the grinding industrial violence of Tetsuo or the genre-shredding chaos of Naked City is also capable of holding the deep, quiet reverence of the Masada project.

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13:29

He contains both extreme violence and deep prayer, and he just doesn't see them as contradictory.