Tracks
01. John Zorn - Naked City - Leng Tch'e
Total time: 31m 37s
Line-up/Musicians
- John Zorn: alto sax, vocals
- Bill Frisell: guitar
- Wayne Horvitz: keyboards
- Fred Frith: bass
- Joey Baron: drums
- Yamataka Eye: vocals
Label: Toys Factory
Leng Tch'e is the fourth release from John Zorn's band Naked City. It consists of a single track, running at just over half an hour. It was first released on the Japanese Toys Factory label in 1992. Unlike Naked City's previously material, which was known for its fast tempo and rapid transitions between a variety of heterogeneous styles, Leng Tch'e is a more avant-garde take on sludge metal.
The cover photograph features a 'death by a thousand cuts' victim, and this is also the theme of the piece.
The music of this album is a slow, droning, heavy metal-ish track that sounds a little like Swans. Imagine a hardcore punk song slowed down by 25-times so that each chord lasts about three minutes. The cover of the album is a picture of someone being slowly cut into 100 pieces, and the music reflects that kind of gruesome mutilation. Not for the faint-hearted, or impatient.