ALBUMAn Untroublesome DefencelessnessMerzbow, Keiji Haino & Balazs Pandi
ALBUMAtsusakuGareth Davis & Merzbow
ALBUMGenshoBoris & Merzbow
ALBUMSister FawnFull of Hell & Merzbow
ALBUMFlying BasketAkira Sakata, Jim O'Rourke, Chikamorachi & Merzbow
ALBUMMerzxiuXiu Xiu & Merzbow
ALBUMNezumimochiMerzbow
ALBUMNiwatori: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 10Merzbow
ALBUMDolphin SonarMerzbow
ALBUMFukurou: 13 Japanese Birds, Pt. 2Merzbow
ALBUMHiyodori: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 9Merzbow
ALBUMKamo: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 6Merzbow
ALBUMKarasu: 13 Japanese Birds, Pt. 4Merzbow
ALBUMKokuchou: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 8Merzbow
ALBUMKujakubato: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 7Merzbow
ALBUMShirasagi: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 11Merzbow
ALBUMSuzume: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 1Merzbow
ALBUMTsubame: 13 Japanese Birds, Pt. 12Merzbow
ALBUMUzura: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 5Merzbow
ALBUMYurikamome: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 3Merzbow
ALBUMNo ClosureMerzbow, Scott Miller & Lee Camfield
ALBUMPartikel IIIMerzbow & Nordvargr
ALBUMCat's SquirrelMerzbow & Oren Ambarchi
ALBUMCutsMerzbow, Mats Gustafsson & Balazs Pandi
ALBUMMer MarMerzbow & Marhaug
ALBUMVictoriaville Mai 2011Richard Pinhas, Merzbow & Wolf Eyes
ALBUMDucks: Live in NYC - EPMerzbow & Balázs Pándi
ALBUMMerzbientMerzbow
ALBUMOuroborosMerzbow
ALBUMHiranya - LPMerzbow
ALBUMProtean WorldMerzbow
ALBUMEucalypseMerzbow
ALBUMArijigokuMerzbow
ALBUMAniccaMerzbow
ALBUMZophorusMerzbow
ALBUMMinazo, Vol. 1Merzbow
ALBUMMerzbutaMerzbow
ALBUMSceneMerzbow
ALBUMSphereMerzbow
ALBUMMerzbuddhaMerzbow
ALBUMDust of DreamsMerzbow
ALBUMOfferingMerzbow
ALBUMMultiplicationMerzbow & John Wiese
ALBUMTamagoMerzbow
ALBUMPartikel (Merzbow vs Nordvargr)Merzbow & Nordvargr
Artist Playlists
Merzbow Essentials
The godfather of harsh noise.
Merzbow: Influences
His purifying noise is rooted in rock and free jazz.
Inspired by Merzbow
Harsh noise and experimental sounds inspired by this Japanese maverick.
Merzbow: Deep Cuts
The noise king tears apart collaborations to devastating effect.
About Merzbow
Artist Biography
A vanguard figure in Japanese music, Masami Akita has done more than any other artist to demonstrate the most thrilling and liberating properties of noise. Born in Tokyo in 1956, Akita was inspired by his interests in art movements like dada and surrealism and his love of free jazz and psychedelic rock to devise his own musical experiments using tape loops, distortion and feedback. Initially the name of a duo with Kiyoshi Mizutani, Merzbow became Akita’s main handle for the abrasive music he began releasing on cassettes in 1979. Over the course of the hundreds of releases that followed—some of which Akita compiled for an instantly infamous 50-CD set named Merzbox in 2000—Akita gradually incorporated synthesisers and computers alongside his more analogue means of creating maelstroms of sound. Meanwhile, his collaborations with artists like Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and the Japanese band Boris expanded his harsh palette to include discernible shards of electronic music, jazz, industrial and metal, too.
Hometown
Tokyo, Japan
Genre
Electronic
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