Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Painkiller - Execution Ground (1994)


The final studio album from the brilliant Painkiller, a trio composed of John Zorn, Bill Laswell, and Mick Harris (of Napalm Death and Scorn). Execution Ground's first disc represents an excellent melding of the freeform jazz-grind that those familiar with their early material might expect, and murky, dissonant dub. The second disc drifts further into the aether with ambient, soundscape-y reinterpretations of two songs from the first. Shrieking saxophone, disjointed drums, inhuman howls, pulsing bass, and samples -- all given a delay- and reverb-heavy dub treatment. Awe-inspiring psychedelic music. This version includes a third disc - a live recording from a show in Osaka - that's more musically in line with their first two records.

Track listing:
-Disc One-
1. Parish of Tama (Ossuary Dub)
2. Morning of Balachaturdasi
3. Pashupatinath
-Disc Two-
1. Pashupatinath Ambient
2. Parish of Tama Ambient
-Disc Three-
1. Gandhamadana
2. Vaidurya
3. Satapitaka
4. Bodkyithangga
5. Black Bile
6. Yellow Bile
7. Blue Bile
8. Crimson Bile
9. Ivory Bile

Guts of a virgin

8 comments:

  1. No comments for Painkiller? Really? One of the greatest combos of all time. Don't miss letting this one split your skull open people.

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  2. Thanks - am on a bit of a Zorn jag currently, and like the sound of this.

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  3. Link one is dead, re-post please :)

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    1. The link is fixed. Strange, the file was still there but the link wasn't working. Should be good now though.

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  4. Man, your blog is awesome! Been looking for Painkiller for years...

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  5. Just found this awesome blog today and thank you for all this killer music, especially this one! Scorn is an all time fave. Cheers.

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  6. Thanks! Painkiller is one of my favourites Zorn's projects. Great music and great musicians!

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