Spillane (album)
1987 studio album by John Zorn / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Spillane is an album by American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist John Zorn, composed of three "file-card pieces", as well as a work for voice, string quartet and turntables.
Spillane | ||||
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Released | 1987 | |||
Recorded | June–August 1986, June & September 1987 at Radio City Studios, New York, NY; Russian Hill Recording, San Francisco, CA and Metal Box Studio, Tokyo, Japan | |||
Genre | Avant-garde | |||
Length | 54:01 | |||
Label | Elektra Nonesuch | |||
Producer | John Zorn, David Breskin | |||
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It is named after mystery writer Mickey Spillane, whose novels featuring detective Mike Hammer provided the basis for the album's title track. Zorn wrote Spillane on a series of index cards, each containing an outline or instruction for the musicians that was intended to evoke scenes from one of Spillane's novels. One card states: "Scene of the crime #1 -- high harp harmonics, basses and trombone drone, guitar sonorities, sounds of water dripping and narration on top."[1] Thus, the musicians are not given traditional sheet music, but a series of cues or outlines that encourage improvisation.
Zorn later released the composition "Spillane" on the compilation album Godard/Spillane (1999).