I haven't heard "Day of Seals," but I found TASTE OF MERBOW pretty interesting, pretty beat-oriented as Merz goes. I think HARD LOVIN' MAN is fantastic, though, so perhaps my opinion should be taken w/ a grain of salt. -Selvig At 10:39 PM 1/9/2003 -0800, K. Scott Handley wrote:
Before all traces of Merzdiscussion evaporate from listmemory, has anyone heard the recent Merzbow release 24 HOURS: A DAY OF SEALS on Dirter Productions? It's a 4-disc set, marketed as a unified whole of sorts, but other than Edwin Pouncey's complimentary words in the January issue of WIRE, I hae onyl been able to find a couple hedgy/iffy/tepid responses to it. I ended up hearing HARD LOVIN' MAN and AMLUX, and really enjoyed both, though with hesitations (the loops). Just wondered where DAY OF SEALS and TASTE OF MERZBOW (Mego) stood in comparison to these two other recent records.
Second, thx to Jese for the synth recs, and I'd like to second his recommedation of Gert-Jan Prins. I would recommend PRINS LIVE (Grob) much more ethusiastically than any digital Merzbow I've heard; to me it's warmer, colder, tougher, mroe chaotic, less reigned in, and a worthy descendent of Akita's work. Great noise.
Finally, I don't know if anyone's done this already, but congrats to list member John Schuller on a FULL-PAGE feature review of his latest (?) album in the January WIRE.
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