Deadly Weapons (album)

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Released 1986 Length 38:00 Label Disques Vogue		Recorded 1986 Release date 1986

Artists John Zorn, Steve Beresford, David Toop, Tonie Marshall Genres Avant-garde, Avant-garde music Similar John Zorn albums, Avant-garde albums, Other albums

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Deadly Weapons is an album by Steve Beresford, John Zorn, Tonie Marshall and David Toop. The album was originally released on the Nato label in 1986. It is designed as film noir soundtrack music to a film which does not exist and could be considered a forerunner to Zorn's Spillane (1987).

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars stating "this quartet has done what so many attempt, but so few actually succeed at: They've created a virtual cinema of the unconscious, colored by sound yet evoking not only images but sounds, feelings, and textural awareness; beautiful and harrowing".

Track listing

"Shockproof" (Beresford) - 8:13
"Du Gris" (Benech, Dumont) - 3:17
"King Cobra" (Beresford, Toop, Marshall, Zorn) - 4:46
"Tallulah" (Beresford, Toop, Marshall, Zorn) - 3:20
"Dumb Boxer" (Toop) - 2:15
"Lady Whirlwind" (Toop) - 0:47
"Shadow Boxer" (Toop, Marshall) - 3:03
"Sitting in the Park" (Billy Stewart) - 1:42
"Snow Blood" (Toop) - 2:27
"Chen Pe'i Pe'i" (Zorn, Toop) - 3:08
"Jane Mansfield" (Beresford, Toop) - 5:02

Recorded at Dave Hunt Audio Engineering studio in 1986 and produced by Jean Rochard

Personnel

Steve Beresford – keyboards, tapes, trumpet, guitar, percussions

David Toop – guitar, pedal steel guitar, flutes, percussions

John Zorn – alto, keyboards

Tonie Marshall – vocals

Songs

1Schockproof8:13
2Du Gris3:18
3King Cobra4:50

References

Deadly Weapons (album) Wikipedia

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