Drone Records

AKITA, MASAMI - Wattle

Format: pic-LP

Label & Cat.Number: Elevator Bath eeaoa 038

Release Year: 2016

Note: the series of picture discs on Elevator Bath (with visual artwork by the artists themselves) finally continues with a release by MASAMI AKITA aka MERZBOW, who re-worked photogrraphs of a Turkey; on the vinyl two tracks of "unidentifiable metallic clanging, crushing feedback, jagged white noise, and various effects...There are no drums, no guitars, no vocals; just scorching electronic mayhem of the highest quality..." lim. 270 copies

Price (incl. 19% VAT): €20.00

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Elevator Bath's series of picture disc LPs (each record being adorned with full-color artwork by the recording artist) comes to its conclusion with a top-notch new release from the great Masami Akita.

Wattle is a new, two-part composition featuring Akita's traditional soup of unidentifiable metallic clanging, crushing feedback, jagged white noise, and various effects. It does not disappoint. There are no drums, no guitars, no vocals; just scorching electronic mayhem of the highest quality.

The colorful images here are based on photographs shot and subtly manipulated by Masami Akita, who sends the following message:

"Turkey is beautiful animal and do not eat them."

Agreed.

Masami Akita is, of course, the artist behind the seminal, vegan, straight edge, noise project, Merzbow. He lives in Tokyo.

This picture disc LP has been released in an edition of 270 copies. Every copy purchased directly from Elevator Bath will include a download code for high quality files of the entire audio content of this LP.

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"Masami Akita (aka Merzbow) dedicates this album to the turkey, following numerous explosive noise albums in homage to various animals. While frogs, fish, and dolphins have appeared throughout the Merzbow menagerie, birds in particular seem to the object of fancy for Akita, and here he offers the following: "Turkey is beautiful animal and do not eat them." How his vegan beliefs co-exist with the feral electric screams that is the Merzbow / Akita aesthetic has long been a mystery to us; but that does not diminish the psychedelic intensity and kaleidoscopic overload heard here. Akita is focused (or appears to focus) on the analog systems of closed-circuit noise construction that dominated his work up through the mid-'90s. Wattle squiggles and noodles with an electronic squawking that could be Akita's mimicking of the titular bird, with these sounds (un)settled above a scorching roar of jet-engine tumult and clattering demon-pulse frenzy. Limited edition picture discs of just 270 copies!" [Aquarius Records]