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Merzbow's fourth full lenght CD album for the VIVO RECORDS label.
All music by Masami Akita. Recorded & mixed at Munemi House and Sound Studio Noah, May 2008.

Nowy album klasyka muzyki noise!
Elektroniczny noise w wykonaniu Merzbow zarejestrowany w maju 2008.
4 utwory, ponad 68 minut czyszczącej jaźń rozbębnionej elektronicznej chłosty.


There's in your face, and then there's Merzbow. Masami Akita's umpteenth pummelling album shrieks straight down to business, squalls upon shards mashed up against sheets and droves of fingernail-scraping NOISE, four screaming yowls of pain and rage shot through from ear to ear and back again with lurching, clattery drums abused and battered over and over in demented rhythms, the whole shuddering with vibrant, agonising sonic torture, eventually becoming breathlessly overpowering, ripping up all external sensory input on a tide of aural debasement and kicking down the doors of any other sort of perception until there is only the sound of one electrified claw smacking, Merzbow's avenging boot of animal
oppression stamping on the ears forever, twisting and wrenching with a dynamic which is also content to offer distended, almost caressingly brutal passages where the fervour of the acoustic punishment is allowed to subside before returning tenfold.

Richard Fontenoy
(for Plan B august 2008)

Arijigoku finds Merzbow returning to his former musical life before noise as a drummer, with heavy use of live drum rhythms to create what?s best described as a jamming noise record with rock and jazz influence rhythms abound. It?s another curious often rewarding progression in his shifting sound world.

The album is split into four part Arijigoku named tracks, taking in a total of near on 70 minutes. First up we have part one which slams straight in a rapid and bone shaking drum work out with screeching and burning noise textures firing off over the top. Merzbow is really pounding the hell out of the drums with one bullet like roll after another with the drums seemingly bleeding into the noise matter, which rema.......
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