PAINKILLER

EXECUTION GROUND

 Disc one :
  1/  Parish of Tama (Ossuary Dub)               (PainKiller)                 16.05
  2/  Morning of Balachaturdasi                  (PainKiller)                 14.45
  3/  Pashupatinath                              (PainKiller)                 13.47
	
 Disc two :
  4/  Pashupatinath - Ambient                    (PainKiller)                 20.00
  5/  Parish of Tama - Ambient                   (PainKiller)                 19.19

 Disc three : Live in Osaka
  1/  Gandhamadana                               (PainKiller)                 13.00
  2/  Vaidurya                                   (PainKiller)                 9.00
  3/  Satapitaka                                 (PainKiller)                 11.00
  4/  Bodkyithangga                              (PainKiller,Eye)             13.00
  5/  Zorn/Eye duo encore                        (Zorn,Eye)                   9.05
      a/ Black Bile
      b/ Yellow Bile
      c/ Crimson Bile
      d/ Ivory Bile

          Recorded and mixed at Greenpoint Studio, Brooklyn, New York
          Engineering : Oz Fritz
          Engineering on disc two : Robert Musso
          Assistant : Layng Martine
          Disc three recorded live in Osaka, Japan
          Produced by PainKiller
          Subharmonic : Ambient Bob Soares
          Material Inc. : Tracy McKnight
          Axiom/Ambient : Peter Wetherbee/Bill Murphy
John Zorn : saxophone, voice; Bill Laswell : basses, samples; Mick Harris : drums, samples, voice; Yamantaka Eye (Disc three) : voice.

          1994  -  Subharmonic (US),  SD  7008-2  (2CD)
          1995  -  Toy's Factory (Japan),  TFCK 887313  (3CD)
Note : The Subharmonic version does not contain Disc three.
Note : The Subharmonic release also came in two different limited edition (250 each) packages; one in a marble case, and one in metal.

REVIEWS :

Well, the twisted team of LASWELL, ZORN and HARRIS have done it again. This time, they've created music almost completely unlike their past efforts. The tweaking, screeching alto sax of Avant-Jazz composer JOHN ZORN is still present, as are BILL LASWELL's throbbing bass noise and MICK HARRIS' thundering percussion, but... The music is a radical jump from the material that appeared on "Guts Of A Virgin" and only a short hop from "Buried Secrets", which featured the masterful JUSTIN and BENNY of GODFLESH fame on a couple of near-ambient tracks. As with BROADRICK and HARRIS' other project, SCORN (which JUSTIN has since left), PAINKILLER has begun to drown itself in the isolated dimensions of Hardcore Ambient Dub, swinning through the amniotic air, layer upon layer of textured sound. The double CD features one disc with three tracks, none of which last for less than sixteen minutes, whereas "Guts Of A Virgin" featured about four tracks which lasted less than a minute each. "Buried Secrets" also has its share of short bursts. No such phenomenon appears on this newest effort, however. Disc Two is the ambient disc, featuring two 'remixed' versions of two tracks from disc one, which actually bear nothing in common with their namesakes aside from the titles. The material on disc two is far superior to that on disc one, some really incredible stuff, bubbling away into the night, sample over sample, sounds wafting up from outer space, the most incredible track being "Parish Of Tama Ambient" an amazing nineteen-minute, nineteen-second long track full of haunting beauty. All in all, "Execution Ground" is an awesome album.

Review from INDUSTRIAL NATION #12