Label: Slowdown Records
Series: Merzbow Archive Series / Drums Era (2008-2009)
Format: CD
Genre: Experimental
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Alternate mixes from two essential albums: Protean World (Noiseville, 2008) and Microkosmos (Blossoming Noise, 2009). Drumming was recorded separately in rented studio space, capturing Akita's return to the instrument after decades.
The first track fuses drumming with improvisational noise - drums rampage at high velocity without steady beat, pure kinetic energy. The second and third tracks reveal different performance flavors: gradually intensifying roughness merging with noise, interwoven with drum solo passages demonstrating free changes while maintaining groove and steady pulse. Three distinct approaches to the drum-noise equation.
Credits: All Music by Masami Akita
Recorded & mixed at Munemihouse, April 2008 (tr.1), June 2008 (tr.2-3)
Remastered, October 2020
Mastered by Kentaro Hayashi, Osaka