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Radio (Naked City album)

Radio
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Studio album by Naked City
Released 1993
Recorded April 1992
Genre Experimental
Jazzcore
Avant-garde
Length 57:50
Label Avant Avan 003
Producer John Zorn
Naked City chronology
Leng Tch'e
(1992)Leng Tch'e1992
Radio
(1993)
Absinthe
(1993)Absinthe1993
John Zorn chronology
Rituals: Live in Japan
(1993) Rituals: Live in Japan1993
Radio
(1993) Radio1993
Absinthe
(1993) Absinthe1993
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Allmusic 4/5 stars

Radio is the fourth studio album by the band Naked City, and their first to be composed entirely by bandleader John Zorn. The album was also released as part of Naked City: The Complete Studio Recordings on Tzadik Records in 2005.

Radio marked a return to the eclectic, "jump cut" style of the band's 1989 debut album. The liner notes cite a wide range of musical influences including Charles Mingus, Little Feat, Ruins, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Colin Wilson, Albert King, Chuck Brown, Orchestra Baobab, the Accüsed, the Meters, Tony Williams' Lifetime, Anton Webern, Sammy Cahn, Frank Sinatra, Morton Feldman, Igor Stravinsky, the Melvins, Beatmasters, Septic Death, Abe Schwartz, Ivo Papasov, Naftule Brandwein, Repulsion, Led Zeppelin, Bernard Herrmann, Santana, Extreme Noise Terror, Conway Twitty, Siege, Ornette Coleman, Corrosion of Conformity, Massacre, Quincy Jones, Sam Fuller, Funkadelic, Carcass, Liberace, Jan Hammer, Eddie Blackwell, Charlie Haden, Mick Harris, Carole King, Red Garland, Boredoms, Jerry Reed, SPK and Roger Williams in addition to Zorn's previously identified touchstones.


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