What's going on with Merzbow eyebrows?
What's going on with Merzbow eyebrows?
Owen Martinez
Easton Torres
They're trying to escape this hack's face.
Brandon Thomas
He used to have thick eyebrows. He probably overplucked them
Jayden Lee
Wrong pic
Easton Lopez
merzbrows
Grayson Rivera
What do you guys think of the M cast?
Elijah Morales
You mean, that obese guy owning a label? Actually we know nothing about him. He doesn't reply to our email.
Tyler Barnes
fpbp
Christopher Morales
They're called hime eyebrows
Merzbow is a princess
Parker Sullivan
He looks cool I like his glasses
Adam Long
merzbow is the one true best-girl.
Christian Reed
Where'd you get your glasses?
Julian Butler
I like his Death in June tattoo :^)
Luke Reed
Masami was cute when he was young
Isaiah Nguyen
>Merzbow is 63 years old
>Merzbow will die in your lifetime
Brayden Long
I think hes alt right he might be militant
Dominic Bailey
Masami is still cute
Hudson Gutierrez
When is M cast coming back? I want to buy some merz pictures?
Cameron Nguyen
Chinese Spock lookin ass
Colton Long
I think hes alt right I'm scared he watches fox news
Evan Ward
Go to bed Greh
don't you have a new podcast to do
Josiah Barnes
He's Japanese, user. Japanese straight-edge vegan harsh noise. Get it right.
Brandon Russell
We must secure a future for white women and children
Ian Morales
looks like uchoten's drummer
Lucas Baker
I doubt Corey Cruz aka Greh Holger is a white nationalist -- DiJ tat aside
Mason Cooper
He has a gf she changed him back to being a hipster he was on the verge of being alt right though
Sebastian Watson
Deathhead pin...
Jordan Brown
That is a badass jacket, he looks sharp
Benjamin Sullivan
Merzbrow :)
Zachary James
KK Null and Merzbow have been friends for almost 40 years going back the playing at Kid Ailack Art Hall and Gatty in the early 80s
Noah Cooper
They played a reunion show last September. Null said that the show was recorded and that they plan to record new material
Recent Merzbow albums like Hyakki Echo, Kaerutope and Hermerzaphrodites use lots of digital piano and digital percussion, reminding me a lot of recent KK Null releases
Chase Diaz
Masami, Reiko and Bara in the 1996 Alchemy Records calendar (wtf is Lucifer Wong, how did he get their tshirt)
Jose Turner
Mail art/music chain letter
Mason Jackson
Nux Organization flyer
The Merzbow Null LP never came out
Andrew Rodriguez
Merzbow opened the famous Hanatarashi show where EYE throws barrels
Notice the right center photo
Isaac Long
Masami tied up in kibakubi
Eli Torres
Masami's article about Otto Muehl. He took the name Material Action for his music
Thomas Anderson
ZSF Produkt catalog (unknown date)
Jordan Miller
Fatagata Tapes flyer (Solmania)
Noah Robinson
World Music 7 article in Fool's Mate issue 26 (1983)
Liam Campbell
Captain Beefheart article in Fool's Mate 24 (1982)
Jackson Brown
White power
James Foster
Interview with The Residents in Fool's Mate issue 52 (1986)
Sebastian Thomas
give me sucky fucky eyebrow man
Thomas Gray
Article about GX Jupitter-Larsen in Fool's Mate (date unknown)
Happier days...
Austin Torres
Flyer from Force Metal zine (March 1983)
>I. Merzbow Lowest Music & Arts was originated from the mixture of various existence, all fetish, music, environment, picture, instruments, all ready-made, etc...
>Material Action 2 (N.A.M.) is a second part of the material action performance, first are called Material Action For Two Microphone, Material Action indicates time devour everything, N.A.M indicates New Acoustic Music, Nil Ad Milari, or Nimbus Alter Magneto Electricity, etc...
>Therefore this materials was born from the mixture: of UNTI-RHYTHMS, UNTI-feeling, UNTI-merzbow, lowest system of unti-performance.
>trinity of n.a.m: ready-made, ready-made, ready-made
>from the music, from the musick, masick
>2. you can re-create merzbow. please send your re-create merzbow works to; merzbow lowest culture communication center
>subtle musick for subtle human......merz-bau 1914 KURT-SHWITTERSSSSSSSS
Adam Thompson
Lowest Music & Arts catalog (1983)
Cooper Morgan
Insert with details on Antimonument and Batztoutai
Austin Russell
Merzbow Null tape catalog
Ayden Johnson
Undated ZSF Produkt catalog
William Evans
Another undated catalog
Look at all of those Merzbow Null that haven't circulated, let alone been reissued
Hunter Turner
ZSF Produkt catalog from 1987
Notice how he put out tapes by other artists like Controlled Bleeding, Le Syndicate and The Gerogerigegege (this was his first album and Juntaro was still in high school!)
Isaac Rivera
Second part of 1987 catalog. Merzbow used to distribute foreign tapes in Japan
History of Unheard Music, L'Akstremauncio, Duka Bass Band, The Haters, PGR/Thessalonians...
David Clark
Bustmonsters interview
James Martinez
Live in Russia and Storage reviews by Juntaro Yamanouchi
Jayden Jones
SCUM review by Juntaro Yamanouchi
Andrew Roberts
Discographic article from Improvised Music From Japan 2005 1/4
Samuel Ramirez
Part 2/4
Anthony Barnes
Three of Four
Hunter Taylor
Last page
Jason Stewart
Article by Kimihide Kusafuka (K2) about Japanese independent music in Schmock (1984)
Ethan Taylor
Mentions DD.RECORDS and Merzbow
Jason Morales
Third page
Juan Martinez
Adrian Price
Merzbow own descriptions of his releases for Studio Voice in 2000 (the text is too small for me to read)
Michael Baker
Part of an article about new Japanese music by Fred Frith for OP in March 1982. Probably first foreign coverage of Merzbow (at least outside of mailart zines). My images seem to be missing
>Merzbow has been together as an improvising duo for five or six years. For the last two years we've concentrated on recording tapes. Among new-wave rock musicians here there's a certain tendency more and more towards total improvisation, but on what level they're improvising I don't know. Are they using it merely as something new? Or is it more important than that?
>Our background in any case is rock, and we see ourselves as rock musicians rather than 'improvisers.' Since our current interest is in tapes as opposed to performances, the first emphasis is no longer on spontaneity but on making finished statements through the tape medium. It *is* improvised, but that's not the primary concern, and the tape is not *live*- we make modifications. For example, sometimes we have tapes of two performances running at the same time. The recording process is what's important, the microphone is the medium for making the music. When you're dealing with microphones, factors like precise positioning relative to the sound source, the size of the room, and so on are more important than the spontaneous transmission of the sound. Many of the sounds we're using right now come from very small sources that would be difficult to amplify at a concert.
Jason Sanchez
Part Two (incidentally, Frith was supposed to write the liner notes to Yantra Material Action)
>We've been described as combining shamanism with an 'Industrial' sound, but this needs clarification. It's more of a question of a fetish for sound texture itself, and this is the prime mover of our musical thoughts. I'm deeply influenced by Japanese Buddhist philosophy, and verbally we can talk, say, of the belief that there's a living soul belonging to every object. This idea might be felt unconsciously in the music, but we have no conscious intentions as far as the Japanese cultural tradition is concerned.
>I had no formal musical education, but I was always interested in ethnic music, and also musique concrete. I play the drums in a new-wave band, because I like all that, but it's a different realm from what we're doing in Merzbow.
Anthony Morales
Painting by Merzbow that was exhibited at Los Apson, then auctioned off
Wyatt Allen
Another painting. He did several paintings and you can see them here: merzbow-blog.tumblr.com
Ian Lopez
The paintings were also published in ROOTS magazine. The auctioned paintings included a CDr with exclusive music.
Blake Hernandez
Flyer for the Hanatarashi barrel throwing show
Kevin Gonzalez
Merzbow also used to organize shows during the 90s. But like most of the original Japanese noise artist, he later withdrew from the "noise scene".
The show from this flyer appears on the b side of Flare Gun.
Jonathan Russell
he's transitioning to a wise old asian master
Adrian Sullivan
Kiyoshi Mizutani is still around. He does feedback EAI performances: youtube.com
But for physical releases he only does field recordings
Isaiah Lee
Masami's review of Frank Zappa's Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar in Fool's Mate 21 (1982)
Gabriel Rodriguez
Masami's review of Sextet by A Certain Ration in Fool's Mate 21
Tyler Campbell
Masami's review of Juke 19 (date unknown)
Aiden Cook
Masami's article about SPK and Nocturnal Emissions in Fool's Mate 30 (1983)
Jose Morgan
Masami and Reiko interviewed Neil Hill of SPK in Tokyo shortly before he died. This was after the rest of SPK took off to England to make it big.
Merzbow contributed a recording of this interview to Hanatarashi for their split album. This resulted in the track Rap The Neil In Tokyo
Julian Roberts
Nigel Ayers told a story about how Masami sent him a review of a Nocturnal Emissions cassette he did for a glossy Japanese magazine. Ayers was confused since it was only available as consignment from a certain Rough Trade shop.
Luis Kelly
Article about This Heat for Rock Apocalypse (date and mag unknown)
James Sanchez
Page 2
James Morgan
Page Three
Connor White
Masami on Fujizuka, artificial Mount Fujis scattered around Tokyo
Liam Jones
Article about noise (circa early 90s)
Cameron Powell
When asked by a Artforum, a hipster contemporary art magazine, to pick the best music of 2010, Masami picked all metalcore -- including two concerts
Ryder Wright
Certain people on noise forums were pissed when this came out
Brandon Bailey
Masami and Balázs Pándi in Red Square
Jackson Lopez
Merzbow & Balázs Pándi 2019-05-25 @ Station Hall, Moscow, Russia [FLAC]
By Barghest Bootlegs
disk.yandex.com
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Aiden Reed
lmao based
Caleb Ward
pls don't bodyshame her, she cute :3
(but for real, transitioning at old age isn't easy)
Asher Flores
It's difficult for some people to hear it, but much of noise music and power electronics oozes with emotion.
Some works that display this clearly are:
Con Dom - calling all Aryans
Animal collective - untitled (from stgstv)
Meira Asher - Spear into hooks
Operation cleansweep - power hungry
However, merzbow manages to drain all the emotion from the noise entirely when he produces. Honestly, to best describe it, if you've ever seen the American tv show "Fringe" directed by jj Abrams, there were scenes where they "reanimated" a character in order to interrogate them after death. The movements and speech patterns of these reanimated people appeared forced, deliberate, uncomfortable, unnatural, and undesirable. Merzbows music reminds me of those scenes in Fringe. I really don't like it and I don't know why merzbow, of all noise musicians, gets the attention that he does. The second most mentioned noise musician that I see, William Bennett of Whitehouse, is so much more interesting than merzbow ever will be.
To further drive my point about his music being emotionless, listen to MERZXIU, a collaboration with xiu xiu. Xiu xiu is normally slimy with emotion and you kind of wish they would tone it down a bit (like in Ian Curtis Wishlist), but in MERZXIU, merzbow effectively turns Jamie Stewart's ability to convey emotion to 0. It's horrible!
Charles Howard
I haven't seen anything about Merzbow being trans. He basically looks the same as he always has. It's just that as he gets older, he's losing his hair and skin plasticity. So, he's getting that Steven Tyler look.
Adam Price
For the Russian shows, Balazs Pandi was selling a Merzbow & Balazs Pandi cassette limited to only 50 copies. One of you squatting, alcoholic motherfuckers better rip and share it!