Magnetic Rain, by Merzbow

Magnetic Rain

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	1.	Magnetic Rain No.2 11:49
	2.	Magnetic Rain(Drop #1) 15:37
	3.	Bayanoise 1 07:18
	4.	Bayanoise 2 06:40

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This Album is from the 6CD boxed set “Fantail Vision”, released on Slowdown Records in 2022. The box consists of six new albums recorded between 2020 and 2022, “magnetic rain" is the album positioned as Disc 6. It contains four tracks recorded between February to June 2022, but there is no indication of any connection to previously released works, and all of the tracks are completely new material that has never been released before. The first half of the album, "Magnetic Rain No.2" and "Magnetic Rain (Drop #1)," and the second half, "Bayanoise 1" and "Bayanoise 2," are distinctly different in style.
The first half is a dizzying interplay of various sounds, including electronic sounds that fluctuate wildly in pitch and bass sounds that undulate periodically, creating a performance with a large amount of information, as if a variety of patterns appear and disappear. The second half of the album is a very eccentric work in which noise is overlaid on samples recorded using the bayan, a Russian or Ukrainian folk instrument.
When Merzbow was a duo of Masami Akita and Kiyoshi Mizutani (1979-1981), there were attempts to have the two perform on various instruments, but since the 1990s, when explosive noise became a main elements of the style, acoustic instruments other than drums have rarely been used in the productions. So the combination of sounds attempted here is full of unfamiliarity, strangeness, and freshness.
yorosz (aka Shuta Hiraki)

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released March 15, 2024

All Music by Masami Akita
Recorded & mixed at Munemihouse, Tokyo, Feb-June 2022.

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