Grand Guignol (album)
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| Producer | John Zorn | |||
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Grand Guignol is the second full-length studio album released by
Yamatsuka Eye. The album is titled after the infamous Grand Guignol theater in Paris
, which was open from 1897 to 1962, where performances centered around extreme violence.
Grand Guignol was remastered and re-released in 2005 as part of the Tzadik box set Naked City: The Complete Studio Recordings, with the bonus track "Grand Guignol (Version Vocale)" featuring Mike Patton, and an altered track sequencing.
Reception
The
Allmusic review by Ted Mills awarded the album 4 stars stating "Naked City's follow up to their self-titled album is a departure from the New York noir that they had perfected... A rewarding album."[1]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
Allmusic |   [1] |
In popular culture
Two of the tracks ("Bonehead" and "Hellraiser") were featured in the soundtrack to
2008 remake
.
Track listing
All compositions and arrangements by John Zorn, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Grand Guignol" | 17:41 | |
| 2. | " Orlande de Lassus | 1:46 | |
| 7. | "The Cage" | Charles Ives | 2:01 |
| 8. | "Louange à l'éternité de Jésus" | Olivier Messiaen | 7:08 |
| 9. | "Blood Is Thin" | 1:02 | |
| 10. | "Thrash Jazz Assassin" | 0:47 | |
| 11. | "Dead Spot" | 0:33 | |
| 12. | "Bonehead" | 0:54 | |
| 13. | "Piledriver" | 0:36 | |
| 14. | "Shangkuan Ling-Feng" | 1:16 | |
| 15. | "Numbskull" | 0:31 | |
| 16. | "Perfume of a Critic's Burning Flesh" | 0:26 | |
| 17. | "Jazz Snob: Eat Shit" | 0:26 | |
| 18. | "The Prestidigitator" | 0:46 | |
| 19. | "No Reason to Believe" | 0:28 | |
| 20. | "Hellraiser" | 0:41 | |
| 21. | "Torture Garden" | 0:37 | |
| 22. | "Slan" | 0:24 | |
| 23. | "The Ways of Pain" | 0:33 | |
| 24. | "The Noose" | 0:13 | |
| 25. | "Sack of Shit" | 0:46 | |
| 26. | "Blunt Instrument" | 0:56 | |
| 27. | "Osaka Bondage" | 1:17 | |
| 28. | "Shallow Grave" | 0:42 | |
| 29. | "Kaoru" | 0:53 | |
| 30. | "Dead Dread" | 0:48 | |
| 31. | "Billy Liar" | 0:13 | |
| 32. | "Victims of Torture" | 0:24 | |
| 33. | "Speedfreaks" | 0:50 | |
| 34. | "New Jersey Scum Swamp" | 0:44 | |
| 35. | "S/M Sniper" | 0:17 | |
| 36. | "Pigfucker" | 0:24 | |
| 37. | "Cairo Chop Shop" | 0:25 | |
| 38. | "Facelifter" | 0:57 | |
| 39. | "Whiplash" | 0:22 | |
| 40. | "The Blade" | 0:30 | |
| 41. | "Gob of Spit" | 0:21 |
Personnel
- alto sax, vocals
- Bill Frisell – guitar
- Wayne Horvitz – keyboards
- Fred Frith – bass
- Joey Baron – drums
- Yamatsuka Eye– vocals
- Bob Dorough – vocals (on "The Cage")
Notes
- ^ a b Mills, T. Allmusic Review accessed July 22, 2011
