The French subtitle - "Blood and Rose" - evokes the surrealist and decadent literary traditions that have long influenced Masami Akita's aesthetic sensibility. From its inception, Merzbow has drawn on European avant-garde movements: Dadaism, Surrealism, Fluxus, and the transgressive literature of Georges Bataille and the Marquis de Sade. The lotus flower itself carries rich symbolic weight across Asian traditions - representing purity emerging from muddy waters, spiritual enlightenment rising from material existence.

These recordings occupy the border zone between noise and industrial music, sharing concerns with contemporaries like Throbbing Gristle and SPK while maintaining a distinctly Japanese sensibility rooted in concepts of Ma (negative space) and the aesthetic appreciation of imperfection. The juxtaposition of "blood" and "rose" - violence and beauty, mortality and growth - crystallizes the tensions that animate all of Akita's work.