Label: Room40

Merzbowのライブ・ドキュメント・シリーズ第3弾!!東京で録音された本作[TripleAkuma]は、氏の激しく奔放なパフォーマンスを捉えた非常にスリリングな内容。低音と高音の両方を操ることで身体に影響を与えるサウンド創出、圧倒的な密度で迫り来る全42分間構成が兎に角カッコ良い。Room40お馴染みのマットラミネート加工、モノクロ印刷、エンボス・スリーブ、インサートカード付き。



Matte laminate, monochrome printed and embossed sleeve with insert card.

A Note from Lawrence English

TripleAkuma is the third in a series of essential live documents from Merzbow.

The stage and the studio are not the same place, and Merzbow has an acute understanding of this juxtaposition. Whilst the sheer density of the music might be maintained across both spheres, the live experience of Merzbow is truly something that exists as profoundly physical and moreover, overtly performative.

Merzbow’s live methodologies draw not just from a saturation of frequency at all levels, but a recognition of how frequency can be used to affect the body. Working at the extremes of both low and high sonic energies, he creates a situation within which the fullness of the body can be tested; the aural body, that of our ears (and importantly our mind’s ear), and the physical one (after all, the body itself is an ear).

TripleAkuma, recorded in his hometown of Tokyo, captures a particularly fierce and free performance. There’s a morphic and lava-like quality to the sounds he creates here and the very room itself bares into the recording, adding a certain excessive intensity to the way the sounds carry in space, and time.

There is no one exposure that could capture the true force and presence of Merzbow live, but each capture, like this one, deepens our understanding of his truly unique and provocative sonic universe.