| All Artists: Merzbow Title: Merzbuta Members Wishing: 2 Total Copies: 0 Label: Important Records Original Release Date: 1/1/2005 Re-Release Date: 10/4/2005 Genres: Alternative Rock, International Music, Special Interest, Pop, Rock Styles: Far East & Asia, Experimental Music Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 793447507026 |
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 | Merzbow Merzbuta Genres: Alternative Rock, International Music, Special Interest, Pop, Rock Merzbow?s back (as you knew he would be) with another release in the popular Merz series on Important Records. This time, Masami Akita has returned with Merzbuta, and he?s looking back to the last three discs as his primar... more » |
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Album Description Merzbow?s back (as you knew he would be) with another release in the popular Merz series on Important Records. This time, Masami Akita has returned with Merzbuta, and he?s looking back to the last three discs as his primary influence. This means that for the first time in a long time, he has recorded his EMS Synthi model "A." Don?t expect to hear anything from this album in a Volkswagen advertisement, but Merzbuta is Merzbow?s most approachable release yet. Akita is one of the most influential and provocative figures in modern electronic music. He has been hailed as the king of Japanese noise and has toured, collaborated and released stunning albums around the world for over 20 years. Merzbuta is third in the series of Merz-titled releases following in the audio footsteps of the flagship release Merzbeat. With the same reverence for crushing analog beats, weaving noise textures and a compositional complexity, Masami Akita has returned to the feast with Merzbuta. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsA "Heavy" Merzbow album The Pitiful Anonymous | the Acres of Skin | 01/16/2006 (4 out of 5 stars) "The added beats in the noise compositions have an interesting effect on Merzbow's music... Previous Merzbow was loud, yet meditative- constant and flowing high volume. The pounding electronic percussion adds urgency and intensity, creating what you could call 'extreme mosh music'. Merzbuta elicits the same sort of feelings that good, rhythmic metal does. It fills every frequency, everything is in your face, the level of sound is astounding. The beats begin and throughout the course of the each song morph into entirely different rhythms with such subtlety that the change is only noticable when it's complete; they're accented with rhythmic static and cymbals. Familiar feedback and distortion is overlaid, but never sounds repetitive or too much like other Merzbow albums (although I have the heard the other 3 in the Merz series, they might be similar). After all these years, Akita still finds new frequencies and textures. I take off a star because, while highly enjoyable, this album doesn't have as much different ideas as 1930 or other older, less organized releases. The entire album also has a very uniform sound, the songs start out with a beat and are slowly overwhelmed by layers upon layers of abrasive sound (to impressive effect, but still- a lack of variety). I can imagine non-noise fans appreciating this due to the presence of a lot of rhythm. It could help them find appreciation of the older albums. Might not convince a newcomer that Merzbow is really something special, though. Note that this album is also still very harsh... no less so than 1930. Overall- A very active, energetic and enjoyable release from Merzbow." Awesome. Cameron Davis | Sonora, CA | 07/14/2007 (5 out of 5 stars) "Really good merzbow album.
More of a beat than the others, but it's still good. Plus I just had to bring the average up." |
