Released 1989 | Length 53:30 Release date 1989 | |
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Filmworks VII: Cynical Hysterie Hour is a 1989 album by John Zorn featuring music written for a series of Japanese animated shorts that were created by Kiriko Kubo. It features Zorn's first music for cartoons and was originally released on the Japanese Sony label in limited numbers. In late 1996 Zorn finally attained the rights for his music and remastered and re-released the album on his own label, Tzadik, in 1997.
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Reception
The Allmusic review by Joclyn Layne awarded the album 3 stars stating "Bursts of TV rock, synth whistles and barks, banjo licks, and sound effects intensify the caffeinated jumping through genre hoops of this slick and cinematically silly music".
Track listing
- "Hysteric Logo" – 0:24
- "Walk to Park" – 2:10
- "Coaster 2" – 0:47
- "Fighting Pirates" – 0:26
- "Yakisoba" – 1:14
- "Coaster Trip" – 1:39
- "1st Hit/2nd Hit" – 0:27
- "Punk Rock Hero" – 0:56
- "Abacus Waltz" – 0:38
- "Punk Rebel/Tsunta's Theme" – 3:36
- "End Title" – 0:13
- "Through the Night" – 1:30
- "Home Sweet Home" – 1:43
- "Making Ramen at Midnight" – 0:32
- "Scary Moonlight" – 1:55
- "My Favorite Things" – 2:18
- "Omelet Punk" – 0:20
- "Classical" – 0:16
- "Stink of an Onion" – 0:34
- "Onion Samba" – 0:59
- "Omelet Punk 2" – 0:16
- "Me and My Hamburger/Final Samba" – 1:05
- "Surfing Samba" – 1:10
Personnel
Songs
1Hysteric Logo0:24
2Walk to Park2:10
3Coaster 20:47
References
Filmworks VII: Cynical Hysterie Hour Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA