--- product_id: 10498919 title: "Black Box Torture Garden / Leng Tch'e" price: "Rp778633" currency: IDR in_stock: true reviews_count: 10 url: https://www.desertcart.id/products/10498919-black-box-torture-garden-leng-tche store_origin: ID region: Indonesia --- # Black Box Torture Garden / Leng Tch'e **Price:** Rp778633 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Black Box Torture Garden / Leng Tch'e - **How much does it cost?** Rp778633 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.id](https://www.desertcart.id/products/10498919-black-box-torture-garden-leng-tche) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The controversial and influential Naked City Black Box couples two of Zorn's most extreme and violent creations. Torture Garden (1991) presents Naked City's intense and groundbreaking music combining free jazz, bebop, r&b, country, funk, rockabilly, surf, metal and grindcore, usually in the same song! The rare, seldom heard Leng Tch'e (1992), released only in Japan and long out-of-print features Naked City in an agonizingly slow, brutal 32-minute assault. This special 20th anniversary edition brings all the music together on one CD, accompanied by a booklet complete with artwork, photos and essays old and new. Review: Naked City ate my baby. - Naked City's post-modernist music belongs to every genre and to none, a baneful musical poltergeist that reassembles its surrounding into an web of chaos. As for the Blackbox collection, these are both definitive Naked City albums. If you could only own three Naked City albums, it would have to be _Absinthe_ and these two. _Torture Garde_ features 42 tracks, only a few of which last longer than a minute. In these skillful collages, Naked City tightly binds together multiple genres and hops between with reckless abandon, usually played at breakneck speed. "Speedfreaks", the most extreme example, lasts 50 seconds and changes styles and tempos every second or two. Often heavy and loud, with John Zorn's alto sax screeching over blaring hardcore meltdowns or noisy free jazz terrors. There is also Yamatsuka Eye. He's basically just insane. He gabbers and gibbers and screams and shrieks and roars and flies into rabid fits of seizures that seem unrelenting until Naked City hops into something else. Overall, this is some of the hottest playing you'll ever hear. The liner notes come with some grotesque images: stills from Japanese S&M films (nothing very graphic, mind you), a WHACK paintings by Japanese artist Maruo Suehiro. Then there is _Leng Tch'e_... "Leng Tch'e" (hundred pieces) was an old Chinese torture ritual where the victim was pumped with opium to prolong his life while he was slowly dismembered. Picture such a dungeon in the Ninth layer of Hell, now imagine its soundtrack. This is one of my favorite John Zorn compositions by far. Of all Naked City songs, this is the most violent and painful, but disturbingly pleasurable like some dark fantasy. A horrible antipodal rapture and agony, it is breathtakingly simple -- a continuous build-up starting on roaring guitar feedback and gradually adding drums, and Yamatsuka Eye's tormented vocals, and finally Zorn's screaming sax, climaxing at a place very different from their starting point and yet constant in its agony. Musically stunning, minimal and gripping, _Leng Tch'e_ is music that seems to play itself, inevitably pouring from a crack in the wall of reality. Eye and drummer Joey Baron are absolutely amazing here, adding so much to the intensity of the music. Tzadik says: "A specially-priced double-CD reissue, Black Box couples two of Zorn's most extreme and violent creations with the controversial music and artwork intact. Torture Garden (1991) presents Naked City's intense and groundbreaking music combining free jazz, bebop, r&b, country, funk, rockabilly, surf, metal hardcore and grindcore -- usually in the same song! This avant supergroup has influenced scores of bands including Mr. Bungle, Dim Sum Clip Job and the Boredoms (whose singer Yamantaka Eye is a featured guest on these two albums). The rare, seldom-heard, Leng Tch'e (1992), released only in Japan, and long out-of-print, features Naked City in an agonizingly slow, brutal 32-minute assault." Your music collection can never be complete without a little Naked City. Review: Beautiful box set of audible metallic insanity - Torture Garden is a classic extreme music album, I won't just throw it into grindcore, since it's way too avant-garde just for that genre. Yes it has the song lengths of grindcore/extreme hardcore, but there's too many other styles from jazz, surf rock, and world music. There's pleanty of great reviews for this album so I won't have to go into detail. Leng Tch'e is something else too, it's pretty much the first drone metal album. Bands such as Earth, Sunn O))), Boris and Nadja are drone metal. Earth pretty much birthed the genre, but Naked City released the first album for it. This is a sincerely sick, abrasive and devastating song/album. Besides it being drone metal, there's also Naked City's/Zorn's signature avant-garde jazz and metal, making this song really experimental. Though Torture Garden is easy to get, Leng Tch'e isn't, unless you want to fork over some serious money for a CD. This box set is perfect and beautiful in a very sick way... It comes with some great deranged Japanese artwork. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B000003YUK | | Best Sellers Rank | #104,629 in CDs & Vinyl ( See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl ) #387 in Avant Garde & Free Jazz (CDs & Vinyl) #535 in Thrash & Speed Metal (CDs & Vinyl) #578 in Death Metal (CDs & Vinyl) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (52) | | Date First Available | October 21, 2006 | | Label | Tzadik | | Language | English | | Manufacturer | Tzadik | | Number of discs | 1 | | Original Release Date | 1997 | | Product Dimensions | 4.84 x 5.63 x 0.51 inches; 3.6 ounces | ## Images ![Black Box Torture Garden / Leng Tch'e - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/617k2MawKbL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Naked City ate my baby. *by L***P on August 2, 2003* Naked City's post-modernist music belongs to every genre and to none, a baneful musical poltergeist that reassembles its surrounding into an web of chaos. As for the Blackbox collection, these are both definitive Naked City albums. If you could only own three Naked City albums, it would have to be _Absinthe_ and these two. _Torture Garde_ features 42 tracks, only a few of which last longer than a minute. In these skillful collages, Naked City tightly binds together multiple genres and hops between with reckless abandon, usually played at breakneck speed. "Speedfreaks", the most extreme example, lasts 50 seconds and changes styles and tempos every second or two. Often heavy and loud, with John Zorn's alto sax screeching over blaring hardcore meltdowns or noisy free jazz terrors. There is also Yamatsuka Eye. He's basically just insane. He gabbers and gibbers and screams and shrieks and roars and flies into rabid fits of seizures that seem unrelenting until Naked City hops into something else. Overall, this is some of the hottest playing you'll ever hear. The liner notes come with some grotesque images: stills from Japanese S&M films (nothing very graphic, mind you), a WHACK paintings by Japanese artist Maruo Suehiro. Then there is _Leng Tch'e_... "Leng Tch'e" (hundred pieces) was an old Chinese torture ritual where the victim was pumped with opium to prolong his life while he was slowly dismembered. Picture such a dungeon in the Ninth layer of Hell, now imagine its soundtrack. This is one of my favorite John Zorn compositions by far. Of all Naked City songs, this is the most violent and painful, but disturbingly pleasurable like some dark fantasy. A horrible antipodal rapture and agony, it is breathtakingly simple -- a continuous build-up starting on roaring guitar feedback and gradually adding drums, and Yamatsuka Eye's tormented vocals, and finally Zorn's screaming sax, climaxing at a place very different from their starting point and yet constant in its agony. Musically stunning, minimal and gripping, _Leng Tch'e_ is music that seems to play itself, inevitably pouring from a crack in the wall of reality. Eye and drummer Joey Baron are absolutely amazing here, adding so much to the intensity of the music. Tzadik says: "A specially-priced double-CD reissue, Black Box couples two of Zorn's most extreme and violent creations with the controversial music and artwork intact. Torture Garden (1991) presents Naked City's intense and groundbreaking music combining free jazz, bebop, r&b, country, funk, rockabilly, surf, metal hardcore and grindcore -- usually in the same song! This avant supergroup has influenced scores of bands including Mr. Bungle, Dim Sum Clip Job and the Boredoms (whose singer Yamantaka Eye is a featured guest on these two albums). The rare, seldom-heard, Leng Tch'e (1992), released only in Japan, and long out-of-print, features Naked City in an agonizingly slow, brutal 32-minute assault." Your music collection can never be complete without a little Naked City. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful box set of audible metallic insanity *by W***T on August 12, 2011* Torture Garden is a classic extreme music album, I won't just throw it into grindcore, since it's way too avant-garde just for that genre. Yes it has the song lengths of grindcore/extreme hardcore, but there's too many other styles from jazz, surf rock, and world music. There's pleanty of great reviews for this album so I won't have to go into detail. Leng Tch'e is something else too, it's pretty much the first drone metal album. Bands such as Earth, Sunn O))), Boris and Nadja are drone metal. Earth pretty much birthed the genre, but Naked City released the first album for it. This is a sincerely sick, abrasive and devastating song/album. Besides it being drone metal, there's also Naked City's/Zorn's signature avant-garde jazz and metal, making this song really experimental. Though Torture Garden is easy to get, Leng Tch'e isn't, unless you want to fork over some serious money for a CD. This box set is perfect and beautiful in a very sick way... It comes with some great deranged Japanese artwork. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ THE MASTERPIECE OF NAKED CITY: THE SOUND OF HORROR *by M***N on December 21, 2014* This box contains two albums, Torture Garden and Leng Tch'e. For me this two albums are the best from Naked City. Extremes, violence, with a incredible artwork. 20th years after are even better. Is not only music, is a life experience. The 32 minutes of Leng Tch'e are incredible, brutal, magic. Is the sound of terror. After hear this music probably you live will change forever. Never before Bill Frisell was so intensive and brutal. After this all the rash album are simple games. Torture Garden is the typical Nacked City with 42 tracks combing free jazz, bepbop, funk, rokabilly, surf, metal... a great album, this edition some extra material from another Naked City album, "Grand Guiñol" . This black box is necessary to understand the music today, but take care is excessive for to many people, like the art cover. If you don't have yet please buy it as soon as you can. PS. Naked City are Jon Zorn, Bill Frisell, Wayne Horvitz, Fred Frith, Joey Baron and Yamatsuka Eye --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.id/products/10498919-black-box-torture-garden-leng-tche](https://www.desertcart.id/products/10498919-black-box-torture-garden-leng-tche) --- *Product available on Desertcart Indonesia* *Store origin: ID* *Last updated: 2026-05-13*