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Merzbow

Aqua Necromancer (2LP)

Label: Absurd Exposition

Format: 2LP

Genre: Noise

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Tip! "Expect the unexpected.  Masami Akita, corrupt mastermind behind the bound and gagged and tossed into the jet engine noise of Merzbow has, over the last years, really begun to stretch the limits of what he sonically does.  Seems, with releases (Tauromachine, Hybrid Noisebloom, 1930...), there has been more variety within the choppy slabs of noise that he designs. What we have here is, quite possibly, the most varied Merzbow release to date.  Why?  Because, amidst the stalk and squeal noise, Masami has seen fit to add lots of trippy, sometimes jazzy, inherently odd, sampled beats from bands like Soft Machine and L’Orme.  Tracks like “Soft Drums” and “Contrapuntti Patto” are as much a product of the added beats as they are the usual Merzbow onslaught; the beats seem to have given Masami direction and, more so, revealed a side to his noisetrations that can only be deemed psychedelic!  Yes, for all the noisicians who feel they are tapping into 60’s psychedelia while still pummeling us with the same monstrous (though fun) regurgitations, Aqua Necromancer is a mind-altering example of noise that can actually be called groovy.  Far out!' - J.C. Smith

Details
Cat. number: A(LI)E(N8)-59, AE59, AE-59
Year: 2022
Notes:
Recorded & Mixed at ZSF PRODUKT Studio, Tokyo April - May 1998 Photos taken at National Museum, Hyokei Kan; National Science Museum, Ueno Special thanks for Gary/Alien8 Remastered by MA at Munemihouse, Tokyo May 2021