Monday 10 August 2015

Music of the Abstract - Osaka Bondage by Naked City


How much can you cram into a single minute of a song? In the Eurovision Song Contest each entry has to be around three minutes maximum, forcing one to have to create the perfect ditty to win. Three minutes is said to be the perfect length for a song, but punk managed to need less time than that. Napalm Death managed to encapsulate the concept of suffering in 1.316 seconds. The latter might sound absurd, but the grindcore subgenre of metal is not only responsible for some of the most intense music I can hear, but it enforces how much you can cram in only a minute or so and still make a full song with multiple complex structures to it. Sprinkle its influence over avant-garde jazz, and you get Naked City, the second time musician John Zorn appears here and will likely not be the last for him either. Probably what makes this selected song better is knowing there's a great sense of fun behind it as well like a lot of great confrontational music, especially when the jaunty piano piece kicks in...

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