''Deadly Weapons'' is an album by

Steve Beresford Steve Beresford (born 6 March 1950) is a British musician who graduated from the University of York He has played a variety of instruments, including piano, electronics, trumpet, euphonium, bass guitar and a wide variety of toy instruments, suc ...

, John Zorn,

Tonie Marshall Tonie Marshall (29 November 1951 – 12 March 2020) was a French-American actress, screenwriter, and film director. In 2000, she became the first female director to win a César award for her film ''Venus Beauty Institute.'' Life and career Mar ...

and

David Toop David Toop (born 5 May 1949) is an English musician, author, curator, and Emeritus Professor. From 2013 to 2021 he was professor of audio culture and improvisation at the London College of Communication. He was a regular contributor to British ...

. 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

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

Track listing

# "Shockproof" (Beresford) - 8:13 # "Du Gris" (Ferdinand Louis Benech, Ernest Dumont) - 3:17 # "King Cobra" (Beresford, Toop, Marshall, Zorn) - 4:46 # "Tallulah" (Beresford, Toop, Marshall, Zorn) - 3:20 # "Dumb Boxer" (Toop) - 2:15 # "Lady Whirlwind" (Toop) - 0:47 # "Shadow Boxer" (Toop, Marshall) - 3:03 # " Sitting in the Park" (

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) - 1:42 # "Snow Blood" (Toop) - 2:27 # "Chen Pe'i Pe'i" (Zorn, Toop) - 3:08 # "Jane Mansfield" (Beresford, Toop) - 5:02 ''Recorded at Dave Hunt Audio Engineering studio in 1986 and produced by Jean Rochard''

Personnel

– keyboards, tapes, trumpet, guitar, percussions *

– guitar, pedal steel guitar, flutes, percussions * John Zorn – alto, keyboards *

– vocals

References

{{Authority control John Zorn albums Steve Beresford albums 1986 albums