Music for Bondage Performance, 1930, Amlux, and A Taste of Merzbow are all fine. My favorite Merz of the last 5 years is "Hard Lovin' Man," apparently constructed from Deep Purple samples but sounding more like those legendary My Bloody Valentine 30-minute noise blowouts. When I saw him live at All Tomorrow's Parties, he did a really commanding set , split between Amlux's "Looping Jane," and "Hard Lovin' Man." I missed out on early-90s US tours, though, when he'd do the noise thing & his wife would do bondage performances. And why, oh why, couldn't Colorado College have brought Borbetomagus and Merzbow out with Stangl, Dieb13, and Roisz? At 04:08 PM 12/10/2002 -0500, Steve Smith wrote:
I'd go to the archives for this, but I don't think it's been covered all that recently...
Would anybody care to recommend favorite Merzbow recordings? After years of apprehensive ignorance (less apprehensive of the content than the risk of initiating another expensive collecting habit), I finally caught Merzbow last Saturday night at Tonic, sandwiched between an opening set by Borbetomagus and an after hours set by Burkhard Stangl & dieb13 (whose new 'eh' on Erstwhile is wonderful, BTW).
The 'Merzbox' aside (obviously!), which in-print Merzbow recordings provide a good introduction to his recorded work? And which rarities are worth stalking eBay for? Or is Merzbow simply better experienced live?
Steve Smith ssmith36@sprynet.com NP - Evan Parker & Paul Lytton, "Shaker," 'Collective Calls (Urban) (Two Microphones)' (Psi)
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