Biography

Masami Akita was innate around Tokyo in 1956. He listened to psychedelic music, progressive rock and later free jazz in his youth, and tons develop influenced his music; his album Aqua Necromancer, e.g., samples art rock drum lines, while Doors Open At 8am samples loose jazz. Late he attend Tamagawa University to study art. It was there that he learned of Kurt Schwitters' Merz, or art manufactured from either rubbish, including Schwitters' Merzbau, or even "Merz building". This a source of the title Merzbow.

Music

Early days

His earliest music was manufactured using tape loops, and has been in comparison Throbbing Gristle. He freed his music in cassettes through his own record label, Lowest Music & Arts, which was founded in 1979. In the early 1980s, after met a italian avant-gardist noise creative person Maurizio Bianchi/M. B. around Milano, he founded a second label, ZSF Produkt. Since so, he has freed records in the heavy total of labels, including Mego and Tzadik.

Later recordings

He late began to utilise further electronic instruments and electric guitars, but his music however consisted of what virtually all population would believe of when "noise". It used to be that couple years, Merzbow has begun to have digital technology more around his music. At the survive performance these times, these are pattern for him to create wholly his music by using one laptop. This has dismayed a few of his fans.

Inside 2000, a Extreme record label released Merzbox, the Fifty Video placed of Merzbow records, Twenty of the two non antecedently freed. A placed too involved badges, postcards, posters and various other Merzbow collectibles.

Around 2002, he freed "Merzbeat"; which was seen as a important departure from either his trademark abstract style in this it contains beat-oriented pieces. This has sparked a bit of tilt among fans, though a bit of older Merzbow recordings, including a few discs from either a Merzbox, come as well rhythmically focused. However, a album was extra therefore than anything Merzbow freed it used to be that X or even Fifteen years, & was other widely available than a earliest recordings. 2004's "Merzbird" & 2005's "Merzbuddha" followed inside the similar vein.

Collaborations

Some Akita is joined by more musicians, like Genesis P-Orridge, Otomo Yoshihide, Cock E.S.P. and Mike Patton, but records made under the Merzbow name are usually by him alone.

Partial Discography
Rainbow Electronics (Alchemy 1990) Music for Bondage Performances (Extreme 1991) Batztoutai By using Memorial Convenience (RRRecords 1993) Venereology (Release 1994) Ecobondage (Distemper 1995) Rainbow Electronics II (Dexter's Cigar 1996) Music for Bondage Performances Deuce (Extreme 1996) Oersted (Vinyl Communications 1996) Pulse Demon (Release 1996) Cobalt blue Necromancer (Alien8 1998) 1930 (Tzadik 1998) Tauromachine (Release 1998) Doors Open at 8am (Alien8 2000) Dharma (Double H Noise Industries 2001) Frog (Misanthropic Agenda 2001) MAZK (sustaining Zbigniew Karkowski) (2001) Amlux (Significant Records 2002) Merzbeat (Significant Records 2002) Merzbird (Crucial Records 2004) Partikel (sustaining Nordvargr) (Cold Spring 2004) Sha Mo 3000 (Essence Music 2004) Bariken (Efflorescence Noise 2005)

One of a virtually all complete Merzbow discographies is available at [http://www.oppositerecords.com/artists/merzdiscog.html this] internet site.

Sound sample

Media:Merzbow_Dharma.ogg - an excerpt of "I'm coming to the garden..... no sound, no memory" from either Merzbow's album Dharma (2001) (ogg format, 12 seconds, 94KB) de:Merzbow fr:Merzbow nl:Merzbow