Label: Room40

Room40の素晴らしい審美眼!!1996年出版の異色のタイトルが初再発!!折り込みポスター、ビニールステッカー付き!!秋田 昌美氏の膨大な作品群の中でも異質の一枚と言える、舞台作品"悪徳の栄え／美徳の不興"のサウンドトラックとして制作された[The Prosperity Of Vice, The Misfortune Of Virtue]。映画音楽や舞台音楽を手掛けていた時期の流れを組む作品であり、空間的な音響からリズミカルな要素、個々のディテールが明確となった、緻密な構造が際立つエレクトロアコースティック的アプローチな一作。









Matte laminate and embossed sleeve, with insert card and fold out poster + vinyl sticker (20cm long)

Recorded in 1996, Merzbow’s The Prosperity Of Vice, The Misfortune Of Virtue is one of a series of unique editions from his vast catalogue that reveals a side of his practice often under represented.

During the late 1980s and into the 1990s, Masami Akita was sometimes working on film and theatre music. In this space he created a series of recordings that capture the full scope of his sound worlds.

Given the nature of these settings, his compositional approaches were varied, seeking to create both intensely crushing walls of sound and more spatial, and at times rhythmic, pieces that plot out an approach to sound making which atomises his universe of sound, and uncovered the singular detail that is often consumed in the whole.

The Prosperity Of Vice, The Misfortune Of Virtue is the soundtrack to the theatre piece 'Akutoku no Sakae/Bitoku no Fuko' by Romantica. Based on Marquis de Sades's 'Historie de Juliette ou les Prosperités du vice' & 'Les Infortunes de la vertu’, this recording was originally released with limited distribution and remains one of the lesser available Merzbow recordings.

This edition is completely remastered and contains an additional cut from those original sessions.