John Zorn: Short Stories

If Mary Shelley were to write a score for Frankenstein, or rather if she were to employ Frankenstein to do so himself, he might come up with something similar t0 John Zorn's "Cat O' Nine Tails." Listening to this piece was like walking through an insane asylum, sporadic busrsts of fervor followed by extreme sorrow or brief moments of extreme joy. Mostly however, the piece is filled with ambient bow attacks and the percussive beating of what sounds like a cello. Its second name "(Tex Avery directs the Marquis de Sade)" leads me to believe that maybe this is what hell is for the Marquis de Sade. An eternity of listening to this piece while watching Tex Avery draw Daffy Duck stripping. Maybe that would be heaven for the Marquis de Sade?