Heart As Arena (6 unread)

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  Up.

  Posted: 13-November-2011, 7:00pm CET by Heart As Arena

  
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  Happy New Year!!!

  Posted: 1-January-2011, 6:01am CET by Heart As Arena

  
  
  Y'know. The usual.

  
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  Silent, tiny, night.

  Posted: 25-December-2010, 6:03am CET by Heart As Arena

  
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  My Xmas Gift To You.

  Posted: 22-December-2010, 5:59am CET by Heart As Arena

  
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  Coil: Tainted Love.

  Posted: 1-December-2010, 6:00am CET by Heart As Arena

  
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  50 Days of Merzbow, Day 49: Motorond

  Posted: 11-October-2010, 4:10am CEST by Heart As Arena

  
  1997
  
  t's a long way down, but I feel alright
  It's a long way down, but I feel alright
  And the cops get in, and the crowd gets tight
  --Ryan Adams, Starting To Hurt*
  
  Here, Akita shoots his sounds down a narrow hallway. The sonics feel caged up, but that only increases the tension release in the second track when he hits a groove that has the same rocking effect as the deepest space of Coltrane's A Love Supreme. And that's the great illusion of Merzbow. His music might sound dark, but it comes from--and is on its way to--a place of light. Color me blinded.
  
  TRACK LIST
  
  1. Motorond Pt.2 // 31:25
  2. Motorond Pt.1 // 27:53
  
  *A sidenote: When the last Sonic Youth album came out the fact that Thurston Moore was influenced by Black Metal made it from the press release into just about every review that was written. You know what I want to see? Somebody to give a shout out to Ryan Adams for his absolutely convincing Black Metal yowl that pops up every once in awhile. Srsly. Ildjarn would have been happy to tap this pain vein.

  
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  50 Days of Merzbow, Day 50: Annihiloscillator

  Posted: 12-October-2010, 3:49am CEST by Heart As Arena

  
  1997
  
  An old evangelist friend of mine used to say that all we needed was a good, cleansing fire. Clearly, Merzbow is down with this. Annihiloscillator is a good place to end this 50 CD mountain. Fuck any scorched earth policy. Why limit it to the ground. Merzbow burns the whole world of sound with his work: the high, the low, and the in-between. Annihilation is a gift, and Merzbow just keeps giving.
  
  We offer our gratitude and we end with a prayer.
  
  TRACK LIST
  
  1. Hair Gun // 13:16
  2. Kyoko Hamara Air Clyster // 12:14
  3. Black Brain of Piranese // 13:26
  4. Soft Parts 1&2 // 17:29
  5. Wild Pair // 3:50
  
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  Big ups to the world of sharity that gave me the files to do this. Files here . . .

  
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  50 Days of Merzbow, Day 48: Space Mix Travelling Band

  Posted: 9-October-2010, 10:59pm CEST by Heart As Arena

  
  1997
  
  Would like to be objective about this recording, but when Merzbow pulls out this Death Ray of his, I am a goner. Also, I did not expect to think of (early) Kitaro here. Yet, I did. Not because of the sounds, BUT the because of their shared ability to return to the same or similar sounds in creating something fresh and good.
  
  TRACK LIST
  
  1. Travelling 1997 // 20:04
  2. Floating Manhattan // 14:06
  3. Hongkong Suite // 24:52

  
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  50 Days of Merzbow, Day 47: Rhinogradentia

  Posted: 9-October-2010, 5:58am CEST by Heart As Arena

  
  1996
  
  If Michael Stipe was an icehead and in charge of a faltering Death Ray machine, this is what it would sound like. Fucking fabulous. Windout.
  
  TRACK LIST
  
  1. Rhinogradentia // 14:52
  2. Silver Scintillator // 16:41
  3. Narco // 24:02

  
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  50 Days of Merzbow, Day 46: Marfan Syndrome

  Posted: 8-October-2010, 3:52am CEST by Heart As Arena

  
  1995
  
  This album is a good example of why people say that all Merzbow albums are the same. It's also a good example of why I don't need to talk to these people about Merzbow. Be in it. Be crushed. Be done.
  
  TRACK LIST
  
  1. Marfan Syndrome for Blue (Remix) // 7:07
  2. Oldenbergs Soft Gun // 18:39
  3. Spider Nest Castle Pt.1 // 12:26
  4. Un Br Che // 11:25
  5. Yosef Voice // 2:12