MERZBOW Green Wheels 2xLP/1995 Japan/Self Abuse Records/Noise/Incapacitants
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MERZBOW 'Green Wheels' Double LP (Italy, Urashima, Catalogue #UMA 149) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2021 Urashima label first time vinyl edition (presented here as an expanded Double LP edition) of legendary 1995 Self Abuse Records label release (originally released on CD-only with an included 5" record) of Merzbow release entitled Green Wheels. First time, very limited vinyl edition of this top level Merzbow album.
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(NOTE: LIMITED VINYL EDITION OF 299 COPIES ONLY!)
Originally released in 1995. Merzbow stands as the most important artist in noise music. Inspired by dadaism and surrealism, Japanese artist Masami Akitatook
the name for his project from German artist Kurt Schwitters's pre-war
architectural assemblage The Cathedral of Erotic Misery or Merzbau.
Working in his home, he quickly gained notoriety as a purveyor of a
musical genre composed solely of pure, unadulterated noise. Green Wheels
is Merzbow in its most straightforward, most genuine, most uncontrolled
and refined form. Originally released by the legendary US label Self
Abuse Records in 1995 on CD and 5-inch vinyl record, both housed in a
foil-lined cardboard box with the abstract and impressive art work
created by the artist himself, which has become another of the fetishist
objects of Merzbow and now incredibly hard to find. Like all of his
work since the early nineties, Green Wheels is an uncompromising
cascade of brutal noise. In this album you find nothing of the
minimalism of his early '80s, completely overwhelmed by synthesizers and
handmade objects that become his unconventional weapons to create
bursts of noise. The three tracks of the CD which are neatly reissued on
the first three sides of the vinyl, radiate the listener from the
rackets of a rain of nails on metal plates, the synthetic crashing of
bombing, industrial percussion and the metal (green) wheels that roll
and scrape. The last side of the record contains the two very short
5-inch tracks that hurt you with thousands of jabs in just a matter of
minutes. Then closes with two unreleased tracks from the same fantastic
mid-1990s period which can undoubtedly be considered two wonderful
discoveries for their intensity and beauty; musical pieces that blend
perfectly and complete the reissue on this double vinyl. When you get to
the end of the fourth side, you will feel purified, once the granite
landslide subsides. It is like mental liposuction, eradicating all
anguishes and hesitations. Everything was perfectly recorded and mixed
in March-May 1995 at ZSF Produkt Studio, Masami Akita's home studio from
the late '80s to late '90s; the outcome it's warm and bright as the
bare steel of Shinjuko skyscrapers under the (rising) sun of hot
Japanese summers. Of all the incredible artists to have emerged from
Japan's thriving noise scene, it is hard to call to mind a figure as
iconic, visionary, or influential as the composer and performer Masami
Akita. Edition of 299.
- Originally released in 1995.
- Originally released by the legendary US label Self Abuse Records in 1995 on CD and 5-inch vinyl record.
- Like all of Merzbow's work since the early nineties, Green Wheels is an uncompromising cascade of brutal noise.
- Edition of 299.
Tracks on this Double LP are as follows
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