This article is about a recorded album; for other uses see Radio (disambiguation).
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 1990 debut album. In his review for the Allmusic website, Maurice ...
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This article is about a recorded album; for other uses see Radio (disambiguation).
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 1990 debut album. In his review for the Allmusic website, Maurice Rickard states:
Several genres and bands are skillfully evoked... and helpfully listed in the liner notes in order of occurrence. Jazz, surf, R&B;, death metal, funk, acid rock, and serialism are grafted together in this collection, often into the same song, and the band shifts genres, tempos, and arrangements on a dime.
Supposedly, Radio was conceived as a set for a college radio program, making it a kind of "Young Person's Guide to Naked City," beginning with accessible tunes, gradually building up listener tolerance to dissonance, and...
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