Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Merzbow & Xiu Xiu review in the NYTimes
















Masami Akita, who goes by the stage name Merzbow, spent about 75 minutes onstage at Le Poisson Rouge on Sunday night, generating a constant fusillade of sound: from two laptops, four digital-effects stompboxes and a homemade metallic contraption slung around his neck by a guitar strap.

It was about the size of a small rectangular purse, bulging with coils and amplified by a guitar cable; Mr. Akita rubbed a round metal canister against it to make it shriek. Whatever the source of the music, the concert sounded like a jet engine at close range, but as alive in its particulars as an organism seen through a microscope, with wriggling low-frequency figures that finally came to resemble melodies.

Read more from "A Fusillade of Sound Made for One Noisy Night in Greenwich Village" by Ben Ratliff here!
(Photo byRobert Stolarik for The New York Times )

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