13 Japanese Birds, Vol. 3 [PA]

Performer: Merzbow
Distributor: NAIL Distribution

Notes: Merzbow: Masami Akita. Recording information: Munemi House, Tokyo, Japan (09/2009). Masami Akita shows no signs of reeling back his legendary noise. 13 JAPANESE BIRDS VOL. 3's three songs (which total nearly an hour) could be an imaginary soundtrack to a horror movie that would make Clive Barker squeal. The 31-minute opener, Black Headed Gull," is an especially challenging exercise in white noise and subtly magnetic death-metal percussion, while "February Of 2002" settles into a slightly more digestable post-industrial din. The eight-minute finale, "Angel Of The Odd," is the most outright inviting, though it's still a terrifying slab of minimalist, fuzzy thrash. JAPANESE BIRDS can be difficult, but reserves Akita's place atop the pecking order of experimentalism.

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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