Merzbow
Le Sang Et La Rose
FormatCDLabelSlowdown RecordsSeriesMerzbow Archive SeriesGenreExperimental
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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.
Format
Recorded and Mixed at ZSF Produkt Studio, Tokyo in 1983
Lotus Club, Xerosx, Merzbow * Extra From Tracks 'Chant' (Original 1983)'
Remastered from Original Cassette Tape on Feb 2018 at Munemihouse, Tokyo
Originally Released as Cassette on Lowest Music & Arts, Japan on 1983
Release notes
Recorded and Mixed at ZSF Produkt Studio, Tokyo in 1983 Lotus Club, Xerosx, Merzbow * Extra From Tracks 'Chant' (Original 1983)' Remastered from Original Cassette Tape on Feb 2018 at Munemihouse, Tokyo Originally Released as Cassette on Lowest Music & Arts, Japan on 1983
| 1 | A1 | 22:25 | |
| 2 | A2 | 4:10 | |
| 3 | A3 | 4:10 | |
| 4 | B1 | 10:55 | |
| 5 | B2 | 19:25 |
- Yasuyuki Nakamura
- A&R
- デンシノオト
- Liner Notes
- Masami Akita
- Music By
