Merzbow's 13 Japanese Birds is a thirteen month series of releases inspired by Olivier Messaien's Catalogue D'Oiseaux. Begun in January 2009, one volume will be released each month. The thirteenth and final volume will be released in January 2010. So this November release makes number eleven! Each will be a one-time pressing of 1,000 copies, with cover art by Jenny Akita. Author, activist, painter, and sound artist Masami Akita has been at the foreground of experimental music for over twenty-five years. In...   [ read more ]

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There's a wider variety of unexpected sounds than those normally heard in a Merzbow listening session in this sonic inundation. Unguessed-at dimensions are accessed through 1930 via sensory overload of oscillations, infinitely layered static, frequencies from pitch to buzz -- an explosion could get lost in this, and many do. It is the sounds of tuning in the radio, only to catch the low-end frequencies of an earthquake. Music has long explored -- and exploited -- its ties to emotions; the genre of no...   [ read more ]

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Merzbow's 13 Japanese Birds is a 13-month series of releases inspired by Olivier Messaien's Catalogue D'Oiseaux. Begun in January 2009, one volume will be released each month. The 13th and final volume will be released in January 2010. Each will be a one-time pressing of 1,000 copies, with cover art by Jenny Akita. Author, activist, painter, and sound artist Masami Akita has been at the foreground of experimental music for over 25 years. Inspired by psychedelic rock, free jazz, early electronic composition...   [ read more ]

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