Merzbow
Ensemble Drums
FormatCDLabelSlowdown RecordsSeriesMerzbow Archive Series / Drums Era (2008-2009)GenreExperimental
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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
Format
Packaged in a folded cardboard cover.
Recorded & mixed at Munemihouse, April 2008 (tr.1), June 2008 (tr.2&3).
Remastered, October 2020.
©Merzbow 2021.
Mastered at Kentaro Hayashi, Osaka, Japan. [sic]
Release notes
Packaged in a folded cardboard cover. Recorded & mixed at Munemihouse, April 2008 (tr.1), June 2008 (tr.2&3). Remastered, October 2020. ©Merzbow 2021. Mastered at Kentaro Hayashi, Osaka, Japan. [sic]
| 1 | Protean World Part 1 (1st Mix) | 18:14 | |
| 2 | Microkosmos Part 1 (Test Mix) | 17:56 | |
| 3 | Microkosmos Part 2 (Test Mix) | 16:31 |
- Yasuyuki Nakamura
- A&R
- Kentaro Hayashi
- Mastered By
- Masami Akita
- Music By
