Deadly Weapons (album) explained

Deadly Weapons
Type:	Album
Artist:	Steve Beresford, John Zorn, Tonie Marshall & David Toop
Cover:	Deadly Weapons (album).jpg
Released:	1986
Recorded:	1986
Studio:	Dave Hunt Audio Engineering Studio, London
Genre:	Avant-garde
Length:	38:00
Label:	Nato
Producer:	Jean Rochard

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 that "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."^[1]

Track listing

1. "Shockproof" (Beresford) - 8:13
2. "Du Gris" (Ferdinand Louis Benech, Ernest Dumont) - 3:17
3. "King Cobra" (Beresford, Toop, Marshall, Zorn) - 4:46
4. "Tallulah" (Beresford, Toop, Marshall, Zorn) - 3:20
5. "Dumb Boxer" (Toop) - 2:15
6. "Lady Whirlwind" (Toop) - 0:47
7. "Shadow Boxer" (Toop, Marshall) - 3:03
8. "Sitting in the Park" (Billy Stewart) - 1:42
9. "Snow Blood" (Toop) - 2:27
10. "Chen Pe'i Pe'i" (Zorn, Toop) - 3:08
11. "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

Notes and References

1. Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed August 3, 2011.