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40 Years Ago: MERZBOW records OM Electrique (First Ever Recording)

40 Years Ago: MERZBOW records OM Electrique (First Ever Recording)

Masami Akita recorded the very first MERZBOW sounds on this day in 1979. OM Electrique is the earliest MERZBOW recording but remained unreleased until 2000 when it was included as part of the Merzbox collection. I started playing around 1972, in a studio, with schoolmates from my junior...
30 Years Ago: MERZBOW live in the CCCP

30 Years Ago: MERZBOW live in the CCCP

MERZBOW, recorded live on this day in 1988 at Soviet Army Officers House Hall. Live from Jazz-on-Amur '88IV Soviet Far East & Festival of Jazz & Improvized, Electroacoustic, Experimental Music "We're XX Now", Khabarovsk, USSR on 23 & 24 of March, 1988. Performances supporting slide films by Igor...