Merzbear

Merzbow

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 27, 2007)
• Original Release Date: March 27, 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Important Records
• ASIN: B000N60H0Y
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #286,198 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Merzbear, Pt. 1

2. Merzbear, Pt. 2

3. Merzbear, Pt. 3

4. Merzbear, Pt. 4

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

"There is no need to argue: Merzbow stands as the most important artist in noise music." -- ALL MUSIC GUIDE

Author, activist, painter, and sound artist Masami Akita has been at the foreground of experimental music for over twenty-five years. Inspired by psychedelic rock, free jazz, and early electronic composition as well the physical arts (especially Kurt Schwitters's Merzbau), Masami Akita has created a musical language all his own. Merzbear, the sixth Merzbow release in his utterly essential Merz series for Important Records, pulses and pounds with distorted droning guitar feedback, pulsing noise blasts, and the swirling analog sounds of Akita's distinct EMS Synthi. Like most of Merzbow's recordings, Merzbear is a significant document of his ever-evolving improvisational style. Slowly, he's been moving away from his pure laptop era and re-incorporating elements of his pre-laptop analog days with a homemade junk guitar, EMS Synthi, and electronics. This hybrid sound brings the past into the present and pounds with total junk-collage Dada urgency as only Masami Akita can do it. Cover art by Jenny Akita.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Very Refined Merzbow CD !, May 1, 2007

By	Brien Comerford (Glenview, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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Noise music's most ardent animal welfare activists returns in top form with a very eclectic and refined CD. Some of the songs and sounds are blistering and provocative. Others are actually mellow and soothing. If played at volume level 4 out of 10, this is a very enjoyable CD for the ears, the mind and the soul. Yes it was recorded in his Tokyo Bedroom like all the other classics. Merzbow and Merzbird should be played together in a live format.