13 Japanese Birds, Vol. 2: Owl

Performer: Merzbow
Distributor: NAIL Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Merzbow (various instruments, synthesizer, computer, sound effects); Masami Akita (computer). Few people can dispute the honorific "King of Noise" when discussing the work of Merzbow (Masami Akita), possibly the most prolific experimental musician of his generation. Akita's activities show no signs of slowing into his third decade as an internationally acclaimed artist and musician. Volume Two in his 2009 series 13 JAPANESE BIRDS (inspired by French composer Oliver Messaien's CATALOG D'OISEAUX) focuses on that nocturnal bird of prey, the owl.

Merzbow, aka Masami Akita, is one of the most important figures in the Japanese noise music movement. Releasing an astounding amount of work since the early 1980s, Merzbow's sound is a brutal amalgamation of electronically generated screeches, squeals, and drones that while certainly not accessible in any traditional sense is often beautifully entrancing in its unrelenting brutality. Skewing convention on every creative level, Merzbow released the enormous 50-CD box set MERZBOX in 2000.

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