REVIEW: Merzbow - Life Performance

A review of Merzbow's rerelease from 198fucking5, when I was still in primary school.  It's Merzbow.  And it's interesting.  Written for Heathen Harvest, and precisely edited by Mr Sage Weatherford.

"This music has not aged one moment, while everything around it has shifted and slid through cold wars and cocaine, wrinkle cream and botox. When these clanking and crunching monstrosities (all entitled ‘Nil Vagina Mail Action’, for no reason that is clear to anyone but Masami Akita) burst through one’s speakers, they have absolutely no idea what year it is, and really don’t care about context; these things live in their own universe, with their own timeline, and only ever intersect with our cosmology if and when their demented creator deems it appropriate."

Full review HERE.

REVIEW: Boris & Merzbow – Gensho

The heavy amp-worship of Boris and the megalomaniacal chaos of Merzbow, together again - but this time you can mix your own adventure.  Review written for, and published in, Heathen Harvest, expertly edited by the rather competent Sage Weatherford.

"Not only did it create a ‘phenomenon’ where the two sounds meshed in artistic space, but it created a tangible ‘space’—a triangulated three-dimensional field in which I could roam, my own input-orifices live-mixing the audio signals as I turned and perambulated within and without the space created ... The whole experience is really just a lot more intense when it is experienced as a proper 3D sound space you can wander around in." 

Boris & Merzbow – Gensho