The Merzbow Archive series by Slowdown Records, which has released fourteen editions so far, enters its fifteenth edition. This edition contains recordings from 2014~2015. Since the previous edition of "Double Beat Sequencer" featured sequencer-based recordings from the same period, this edition collects performances without sequencers (although there are a few tracks with sequencers). Previously released original albums such as Wildwood (Dirter Promotions, 2015) and Torus (Jezgro, 2017) were recorded during the period overlapping this edition.
This album, Janus Guitar, contains two performances recorded in September and December of 2014. The first track is a performance with widely scattered noise and electronic sounds, but with a clear attack of hammering metal that is used frequently throughout, giving an industrial impression. The second track, which is over 35 minutes long, uses guitars along with EMS Synthi-A and noise sounds, which is unusual among Merzbow's works of the same period. In the past, Merzbow's works with strong black metal influences (such as "24 Hours - A Days of Seals" (Dirter Promotions, 2002) and "Coma Berenices" (Vivo, 2007)) have used guitar sounds. In the performance of this album, not only the long sustained sound, but also the psychedelic performance with staggered phrases appear, and the guitar sound blends with the noise sound and becomes a background presence.
yorosz(aka Shuta Hiraki)
credits
released October 21, 2022
All Music by Masami Akita
Recorded at Munemihouse, Tokyo September and December 2014.
Mixed at Munemihouse, 2021.
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