Long-form interviews with: Moral Order, Post Scriptvm & Total Black & Nordvargr (30+ year/career spanning interview). Detailed report / photos of the Dominion of Flesh: 5 Years of Cloister Recordings festival. Reviews: 50+ detailed reviews (ambient/ industrial/ experimental / power electronics etc.). Artwork: Original cover artwork + review section artwork by Nordvargr. FORMAT
A5 Format
Professional print, colour cover, grey-scale throughout. ‘Perfect bound’ spine, with matt laminate, thick card stock cover. 90 pages in length. Limited to 600 copies.
Merzbow – ((VIBRA)) MMVII Label: Gradual Hate Records – GH 141 CD / 2nd Edition Format: CD, Album, Enhanced, Limited Edition Country: Spain Released: Jun 6, 2019 Style: Noise
CD Enhanced / Audio + Video / Edition CD Mailer (Laminated Cardboard)
FULL VIDEO included ONLY in the «physical version»( format CD Enhanced / Audio + Video )
Merzbow Live, 07/03/2007 at the OCCC (October Center for Contemporary Culture, València, Spain) within the series of concerts of Sound Art and Experimental Music ((VIBRA)).
Merzbow (メルツバウ Merutsubau) is a Japanese noise project started in 1979 by Masami Akita (秋田 昌美 Akita Masami).
The name Merzbow comes from the German dada artist Kurt Schwitters’ artwork Merzbau, in which Schwitters transformed the interior of his house using found objects. The name was chosen to reflect Akita’s dada influence and junk art aesthetic. In addition to this, Akita has cited a wide range of musical influences from progressive rock, heavy metal, free jazz, and early electronic music to non-musical influences like dadaism, surrealism, and fetish culture. Since the early 2000s, he has been inspired by animal rights and environmentalism, and began to follow a vegan, straight edge lifestyle.
As well as being a prolific musician, he has been a writer and editor for several books and magazines in Japan, and has written several books of his own. He has written about a variety of subjects, mostly about music, modern art, and underground culture.
In depth interviews with: Am Not, Cloister Recordings Himukalt, Ochu, Pterygium, & Tone Generator (of SPK & Last Dominion Lost). A series of six previously unpublished SPK group photos, taken at The Brickworks, Sydney, March 1982. Collage artwork by Richard Stevenson. 50 in depth music reviews (ambient/ industrial/ experimental / power electronics etc.).
FORMAT
A5 Format. Professional print, colour cover, grey-scale throughout. ‘Perfect bound’ spine, with matt laminate, thick card stock cover. 94 pages in length. Limited to 600 copies.
Playlist curated by Death Cult Rising festival exclusively for GH Records.
1) BRIGHTER DEATH NOW – Promises Of Death (6:20) // Included in «With Promises of Death» (Familjegraven – GRAV-01) 2) MORAL ORDER – Face of Defeat (4:42) // Included in «Wrath of God» (Tesco Organisation – TESCO 129 ) 3) HAUS ARAFNA – Sieh Mich An [Wenn Du Stirbst] (3:25) // Included in «Asche» (Galakthorrö – Galakthorrö 048) 4) HUMAN LARVAE – Severin Sirens (9:40) // Included in «Behind Blinding Light» (Malignant Records – TUMORCD100) 5) ATRAX MORGUE – Rotten Humanity (4:36) // Included in «Atrax Morgue / Contagious Orgasm – Forced Entry / N.C.W.» (Old Europa Cafe – OECD 243) 6) GNAWED – Pestilence Beholden (5:12) // Included in «Pestilence Beholden» (Malignant Records – TUMORCD97) 7) DEATHSTENCH – Bastards Of The Black Flame (9:55) // Included in «Massed In Black Shadow» (Black Plagve – INFECT 11) 8) TREPANERINGSRITUALEN – Black Eggg (3:55) // Included in «Perfection & Permanence (Cold Spring – CSR198CD) 9) DEATHPANEL – Under Judgement (5:31) // Included in «Age of Insignificance» (Tesco Organisation – TESCO 124) 10) SLOGUN – Slobland (4:05) // Included in «Tearing up your plans» (Old Captain – OCCD16) 11) GENOCIDE ORGAN – It’s Over (5:27) // Included in «Under – Kontrakt» Tesco 085 + + + (All titles are currently available on GH Recods catalog) GH Records / MMXXI Death Cult Rising → www.facebook.com/DeathCultRising/
Merzbow (メルツバウ Merutsubau) is a Japanese noise project started in 1979 by Masami Akita (秋田 昌美 Akita Masami).
The name Merzbow comes from the German dada artist Kurt Schwitters’ artwork Merzbau, in which Schwitters transformed the interior of his house using found objects. The name was chosen to reflect Akita’s dada influence and junk art aesthetic. In addition to this, Akita has cited a wide range of musical influences from progressive rock, heavy metal, free jazz, and early electronic music to non-musical influences like dadaism, surrealism, and fetish culture. Since the early 2000s, he has been inspired by animal rights and environmentalism, and began to follow a vegan, straight edge lifestyle.
As well as being a prolific musician, he has been a writer and editor for several books and magazines in Japan, and has written several books of his own. He has written about a variety of subjects, mostly about music, modern art, and underground culture.
Merzbow – ((VIBRA)) MMVII CD Enhanced / Audio + Video Limited edition ( 300 copies) GH Records – GH -141 CD FULL VIDEO included ONLY in the «physical version»( format CD Enhanced / Audio + Video )
Merzbow Live, 07/03/2007 at the OCCC (October Center for Contemporary Culture, València, Spain) within the series of concerts of Sound Art and Experimental Music ((VIBRA)).
Organization and direction by Rubén García Villaplana.
Video recording by Jose Moral Bravo.
Merzbow (メルツバウ Merutsubau) is a Japanese noise project started in 1979 by Masami Akita (秋田 昌美 Akita Masami).
The name Merzbow comes from the German dada artist Kurt Schwitters’ artwork Merzbau, in which Schwitters transformed the interior of his house using found objects. The name was chosen to reflect Akita’s dada influence and junk art aesthetic. In addition to this, Akita has cited a wide range of musical influences from progressive rock, heavy metal, free jazz, and early electronic music to non-musical influences like dadaism, surrealism, and fetish culture. Since the early 2000s, he has been inspired by animal rights and environmentalism, and began to follow a vegan, straight edge lifestyle.
As well as being a prolific musician, he has been a writer and editor for several books and magazines in Japan, and has written several books of his own. He has written about a variety of subjects, mostly about music, modern art, and underground culture.
Label: Cold Spring – CSR80CD Format: CD, Album Country: Uk Released: 16 Oct 2007 Style: Noise
This is South Saturn Delta’s debut album, featuring their finest live recordings from between 2003-2005, in Osaka and Tokyo. SSD is a kind of Japanoise supergroup, formed in 2003, with guitar and voice from Maso Yamazaki (Masonna), synth and voice from Hiroshi Hasegawa (Astro, C.C.C.C., YBO2) and drums from Nobuko Emi (Tsurubami). An extreme psychedlic noise trip over 4 lengthy tracks.
Merzbow / Balázs Pándi – Live At FAC251 Label: Cold Spring – CSR233CD Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition Country: UK Released: 21 Nov 2016 Style: Noise, Experimental
The King of Japanese Noise, Merzbow, was joined on stage by Hungarian drummer extraordinaire, Balázs Pándi (known for his work with The Sun Ra Arkestra, Bill Laswell, Justin Broadrick, Bong-Ra, Venetian Snares and more).
The special event on 28th September 2016 took place under the roof of the legendary FAC251 building, where many of Manchester’s musical elite set foot, being the original home of Factory Records HQ. The show features an exemplary performance of Masami Akita’s trademark Japanoise, but the addition of Balázs Pándi’s improv drumming gives the whole evening an almost musical, jazz feel. 44 minutes.
Label: Mattoid Records – mr-015 Format: CD, Album, Stereo Country: Spain Released: 04 Jan 2015 Style: Noise, Power Electronics, Industrial
Tube Tentacles (aka Daiben or one half of Blind Pornographics) and Guilty C. (not necessary presentation) bind their particular visions of noise in this, inside and outside, exquisite manufactured split. Internally, Tube Tentacles brings 3 songs with cosmic noise strokes and drops of industrialism, showing the range of colors of their particular style. Meanwhile the japanese Guilty C. does the same with two very different tracks, giving especially in the second a good dose of Japanoise high end. Externally, the work is presented in a unique Arigato Pack printed with silver ink and insert design with a collage by Guilty C. for the occasion.
