"If you’ve ever wanted to hear something akin to a György Ligeti choral piece being performed on the rim on an active volcano, look no further than this collaboration between two of the most … um, explosive artists of the Japanese underground. Keiji Haino, the guitar god and self-described “bluesman” who sounds like he hails from somewhere around beyond the orbit of Pluto; and Masami Akita, a/k/a Merzbow, whose rumblings and seismic disturbances turn feedback and speaker blowout into art forms unto themselves. Haino’s the master of the monochromatic and mournful; Merzbow covers the ears with a Pollock-splatter of sounds in all spectra. A collaboration between them was bound to be epic in some way.
Pulverized Purple does not disappoint, at least in the sense that it shows both parties doing what they do best and at the fullest possible volume. Come to think of it, “Pulverized” is the right word: it’s the best adjective for what they do to the sounds they create between them, and also what happens to the listener. Akita-the-irresistable-force and Haino-the-immovable-object smash together again and again, grinding the audience into atoms between them. But beyond the obvious my-noise-album-can-beat-up-your-noise-album one-upsmanship, Purple also shows off the more careful and considered sides of both parties: Haino’s eternal straining for some emotion that words and music alone don’t encapsulate, and Akita’s amazing sense of spontaneity and intuitive composition.
Fans of sonic overload will gobble up the whole thing, but those of us who have gotten used to hearing the real emotion in both of these men’s oeuvres are also apt to be pleased. Listen while browsing a book of Buddhist hell scrolls for the best possible effect." - Serdar Yegulalp/Genji Press
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artist: Kikuri
title: Pulverized Purple
type: album
label: Les Disques Victo
release date: 2008
length: 69:22
genre: noise/experimental
country: Japan/Canada
format: mp3
bitrate: 320kbps
Recorded on May 21, 2007 at the 24th International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville festival in Victoriaville, Canada.
credits:
Masami Akita - computer, effects, electronics, drums
Keiji Haino - electric guitar, synthesizer, cordes anciennes, drums, vocals
tracklist:
1. That Which Will Rise From Death Here Tonight Will Go Hand In Hand With A Glittering Echo Burdened With The Sin Of Joy
2. By Mischance That Soul I Devoured Was A Transparent, Vertical Blues
3. Give Me Back That Colour You Stole From My Guts
4. That Place From Which You Fell Was Lined With A Cushion Of Pain And Is No Proof Of Your Continuing Existence
5. Pulverized Purple
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Pulverized Purple does not disappoint, at least in the sense that it shows both parties doing what they do best and at the fullest possible volume. Come to think of it, “Pulverized” is the right word: it’s the best adjective for what they do to the sounds they create between them, and also what happens to the listener. Akita-the-irresistable-force and Haino-the-immovable-object smash together again and again, grinding the audience into atoms between them. But beyond the obvious my-noise-album-can-beat-up-your-noise-album one-upsmanship, Purple also shows off the more careful and considered sides of both parties: Haino’s eternal straining for some emotion that words and music alone don’t encapsulate, and Akita’s amazing sense of spontaneity and intuitive composition.
Fans of sonic overload will gobble up the whole thing, but those of us who have gotten used to hearing the real emotion in both of these men’s oeuvres are also apt to be pleased. Listen while browsing a book of Buddhist hell scrolls for the best possible effect." - Serdar Yegulalp/Genji Press
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artist: Kikuri
title: Pulverized Purple
type: album
label: Les Disques Victo
release date: 2008
length: 69:22
genre: noise/experimental
country: Japan/Canada
format: mp3
bitrate: 320kbps
Recorded on May 21, 2007 at the 24th International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville festival in Victoriaville, Canada.
credits:
Masami Akita - computer, effects, electronics, drums
Keiji Haino - electric guitar, synthesizer, cordes anciennes, drums, vocals
tracklist:
1. That Which Will Rise From Death Here Tonight Will Go Hand In Hand With A Glittering Echo Burdened With The Sin Of Joy
2. By Mischance That Soul I Devoured Was A Transparent, Vertical Blues
3. Give Me Back That Colour You Stole From My Guts
4. That Place From Which You Fell Was Lined With A Cushion Of Pain And Is No Proof Of Your Continuing Existence
5. Pulverized Purple