Merzbient

Merzbient
Merzbient

Cover of the box set
Box set by Merzbow
Released October 26, 2010
Recorded 1987 – 1990 at ZSF Produkt Studio[1]
Genre Noise, Ambient
Length 610:20
Label Soleilmoon
Producer Masami Akita
Merzbow chronology
9888A
(2010)
Merzbient
(2010)
ZaRa
(2011)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[2]
Foxy Digitalis 8/10 stars[3]
Musique Machine 5/5 stars[4]
PopMatters 7/10 stars[5]
The Quietus (favorable)[6]

Merzbient is a boxset of 12 CDs by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow.

The tracks were originally made as raw material for other releases and were not intended for release themselves. While working on cassette reissue of E-Study for Blossoming Noise in 2009, Masami Akita rediscovered the original master tapes, and found that they could be considered "completed works of improvisation music" of their own.[7]

When Merzbow started playing live internationally in the late '80s, it required the use of simple and portable gear, which then influenced his studio sound. But he also continued to use junk and acoustic instruments in the studio for a few more years, including a "big handmade junk instrument made from a metal box with piano wires" played with a violin bow.

Each disc comes in individual full-color sleeves with a photo on both sides, when arranged together they form larger images of Japanese gardens. Also included is a die-cast metal medallion with the words "動物解放" (dōbutsukaihō) meaning "Animal liberation". These are packed in a hardcover box with red foil block printing. The set is limited to 555 numbered copies.[8]

"RBA" means "Right Brain Audile", used by Akita for his soundtracks to bondage films produced by Right Brain, the term appears on the Music for Bondage Performance albums. "Capsule Cologne" and "UD II-S 90" were types of cassettes made by Maxell. "AXIA" was a brand of cassettes made by Fujifilm, some of which are label "For CD". "Matehnas" was made as raw material for the collaboration with H.N.A.S. member Christoph Heemann.[7]

Merzbient will be issued on 15 (or more) vinyl LPs with additional tracks.[7]

Contents

Track listing

All music composed by Masami Akita.

CD 1
No. Title Year Length
1. "RBA 1A"   1989 45:45
CD 2
No. Title Year Length
1. "RBA 1B"   1989 44:36
2. Untitled     12:41
Total length:
57:17
CD 3
No. Title Year Length
1. "RBA 2A"   1989 45:59
CD 4
No. Title Year Length
1. "RBA/Capsule Cologne Maxell"   1990 46:07
CD 5
No. Title Year Length
1. "RBA 8B"   1990 46:32
CD 6
No. Title Year Length
1. "RBA 8A"   1990 46:41
CD 7
No. Title Year Length
1. "RBA 7+2"   1990 31:29
2. "RBA 7+1"   1990 23:04
Total length:
54:33
CD 8
No. Title Year Length
1. "RBA/Maxell UD II-S 90"   1990 30:07
2. "Mixer/Scratch AXIA for CD"   1990 29:58
Total length:
60:05
CD 9
No. Title Year Length
1. "Metal4ch"   1987 43:10
CD 10
No. Title Year Length
1. "Matehnas"   1987 30:41
2. "1988DECsolo"   1988 23:48
Total length:
54:29
CD 11
No. Title Year Length
1. "9011"   1990 31:17
2. "Violinsolo89"   1989 15:39
Total length:
46:56
CD 12
No. Title Year Length
1. "Gasstove4-90"   1990 22:55
2. "92288"   1988 39:51
Total length:
62:46

Notes

  • CD 2 track 2 is not listed on the sleeve.
  • Digitally remastered from original cassette tapes March 2010.

Personnel

  • Masami Akita – various scrap metals, various metals/tin box with piano wires, various percussion by small objects, paper, stone, woods, kitchen objects etc., contact mics, audio mixer, motor, electric fan, gas stove, guitar, violin, thermin, various effects. etc. but no synthesizer. [7]
  • Jenny Akita – photos

References

  1. ^ Merzbient on Merzbow blog
  2. ^ Anderson, Rick. Merzbow: Merzbient > Review at Allmusic. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
  3. ^ Bird, Travis. "Review: Merzbient". Foxy Digitalis. http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/?p=15276. Retrieved August 1, 2011. 
  4. ^ Batty, Roger. "Review: Merzbient". Musique Machine. http://musiquemachine.com/reviews/reviews_template.php?id=3057. Retrieved March 25, 2011. 
  5. ^ Schiller, Mike. "Review: Merzbient". PopMatters. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/137570-merzbow-merzbient/. Retrieved March 25, 2011. 
  6. ^ Stubbs, David. "Review: Merzbient". The Quietus. http://thequietus.com/articles/05401-merzbow-merzbient-review. Retrieved March 25, 2011. 
  7. ^ a b c d Batty, Roger. "Calm Before the Storm". Musique Machine. http://musiquemachine.com/articles/articles_template.php?id=229. Retrieved May 26, 2011. 
  8. ^ label press release

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