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Sphere

MERZBOW (Artist) Format: Audio CD
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  • Sample this album Artist (Sample)
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Sphere Pt. 1
9:13
Album Only
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Sphere Pt. 2
15:29
Album Only
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Sphere Pt. 3
13:30
Album Only
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30
Untitled For Vasteras
29:35
Album Only

Product Details

  • Audio CD (April 26, 2005)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Tzadik
  • ASIN: B0007WFXQW
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #556,472 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 starsSuperb.
By Michael Stack VINE VOICE on June 28, 2005
Format: Audio CD
Wow.

This CD is my first heavy exposure to Merzbow-- when I was in college I borrowed a CD from someone but wasn't quite ready to hear it. A new release on Tzadik seemed the ideal place to start, I've found the material on that label to be of consistently high quality. I certainly wasn't disappointed.

The CD is divided into two parts-- the roughly 37 minute three part "Sphere" and the half hour long "Untitled for Vasteras".

The title suite starts off with an opening percussion line, aggressive, pounding tribal rhythms, with electronics and patterned noise growing in the background until it takes over the piece altogether and the drums are barely perceptible (around 6min). As this climaxes, the second movement starts with a bass loop, sometimes accompanied by drums, often with noise on top. Curiously (for a Zorn fan), around 12min into the piece, what sounds like a sample of the breaking glass from "Never Again" on Zorn's "Kristnaacht" shows up on top of the bass loop. Around 14min into the piece, the bass loop all but evaporated, the drums suddenly slow down in rhythm before dropping out altogether for the third part-- an exercise in industrial noise. The rhythmic, almost "angry ambient" sound, pounds relentlessly in rhythm until it is joined by a feeding back guitar (about 5min) which duels aggressively with it. Largely this is the highlight for me, the sheer level of sound this generates is fairly impressive. About a minute before wrapping up, suddenly the drums return, although they are so well buried in there that they feel implied rather than actually stated.Read more ›
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