Merzbow
Black Rome
FormatCDLabelSlowdown RecordsSeriesMerzbow Archive Series / mid 2000s (2003-2005)GenreExperimental
In stock (ships within 1-2 working days)
Tracked express shipping from Italy, no customs or import VAT in the EU. Shipping costs
The ominous title evokes fallen empires, decadent excess, historical weight. Rome - eternal city, center of classical and Catholic civilization - becomes "Black," suggesting inversion, corruption, death. Perhaps this is Rome during plague, Rome in ashes, Rome as symbol of all empires' inevitable decline.
Black Rome channels these associations into dense, imposing noise constructions demonstrating apocalyptic intensity. Empire rises and falls; Merzbow provides the soundtrack to collapse.
Format
Packaged in a folded cardboard cover.
Recorded at Bedroom, Tokyo Nov. 2005.
Mixed at Munemihouse, Tokyo 2020.
©Merzbow 2020.
Mastered at Kentaro Hayashi, Osaka, Japan. [sic]
Release notes
Packaged in a folded cardboard cover. Recorded at Bedroom, Tokyo Nov. 2005. Mixed at Munemihouse, Tokyo 2020. ©Merzbow 2020. Mastered at Kentaro Hayashi, Osaka, Japan. [sic]
| 1 | Rome Mix 1 | 20:44 | |
| 2 | Rome Mix 2 | 16:09 | |
| 3 | Black Bone Part 5 (Another Mix) | 19:04 |
- Yasuyuki Nakamura
- A&R
- Masami Akita
- Composed By, Mixed By, Performer
- Kentaro Hayashi
- Mastered By
