Happy birthday Mike ! 🙂
…and now some news!
Tzadik March 2002 Releases :
NAKED CITY – Naked City Live vol. 1: Knitting Factory 1989
“After over ten years, Tzadik is finally releasing an exciting series of live recordings by one of the most unique and infamous bands ever: Naked City. Featuring Bill Frisell, Fred Frith, Wayne Horvitz and Joey Baron this was a true downtown supergroup brought together to realize John Zorn’s twisted compositional vision combining jazz, movie soundtracks, rock, rhythm and blues, hardcore punk, cartoon music, country and western and just about everything imaginable—often all in the same piece! … New solos, wilder improvisations and some original compositions and covers that never appeared on disc make this an absolute must for all the Naked City fans around the world”.
NAKED CITY:
John Zorn: saxophone, voice, composer, bandleader
Mike Patton: voice (Live & Grand Guignol 2005)
Bill Frisell: guitar
Wayne Horvitz: synthesizer, piano
Fred Frith: bass guitar
Joey Baron: drums
Yamatsuka Eye: voice
JOHN ZORN – Cobra
“One of the most often performed compositions in new music, the Cobra phenomenon lives … A 21st Century update of a 21st Century classic.”
JOHN ZORN – Hockey
“Original recordings from 1980. In a catalog of bizarre oddities, this CD could be the weirdest yet…”
<Source: TZADIK.COM>