Name: Pia-Noise
Brand: Merzbow, Nicolas Horvath

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SR530

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Limited edition

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2024-07-12

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Merzbow

Nicolas Horvath

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Experimental / Avant-Garde / Industrial / Noise

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Sub Rosa

Merzbow is an extreme experimental music project created in Tokyo in 1979 under the direction of musician Masami Akita. Recognized as one of the earliest projects in what has become known as "Japanese noise," Merzbow has released hundreds of recordings since its inception.

The name Merzbow is derived from Kurt Schwitters's "Merzbau" and is pronounced the same way. Originally formed as a duo, with Masami Akita and Kiyoshi Mizutani, Merzbow became a solo project for Akita when Mizutani left in 1989.

In 1991, Merzbow transformed into a trio with the addition of Reiko Azuma on electronics and voice, and Tetsuo Sakaibara (aka Bara) on voice and dance. However, since 1999, it has once again been solely led by Masami Akita.

Sub Rosa is a Belgian label that was created by two individuals. It has three sub-labels, Quantum, Audiosphere, and Quatermass, all of which are currently shut down. The label also has a DVD sub-label called Ome. Sub Rosa is known for its 10 series, including Aural Documents, Early Electronic Music, Concrete Electronics Noise, Anthologies, Unclassical, Soundworks, Le Coeur Du Monde, Fundamental, Music In The Margins, and Utopian Diaries. Some of these series have sub-sections such as L'innomé and Framework.
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Even the most experienced ear will not come out of PiaNoise unscathed. Consecrating the meeting of two consummate artists, this release confronts their universe like a massive head-on shock in the eye of a sound storm by which we sometimes feel totally drowned. Masami Akita (Merzbow) has been surveying the territories of noise music for more than forty years, directing all sorts of instrumentaria analogical or digital, instrument or software-based. For this record he relied on his favorite combination, a mix of various effects pedals and noise generators.Nicolas Horvath is a pianist of exceptional sensibility. More than well-versed in the classical Repertoire, he also is fundamentally curious and multifaceted, as evidenced by his rescuing works and composers from oblivion, championing them on stage and patiently, carefully recording them. Nicolas Horvath also improvises and composes electronic music. Since the early 2000s, he has been active in the experimental and underground scene under many different names, especially Dapnom. In 2020 he released a dark ambient album under his real name, in collaboration with Lustmord : The Fall (Sub Rosa - SR / SRV 502), a duet for piano and electronic music that rewrites/deconstructs one of the first minimal works in history, Dennis Johnson's November. A collaboration with Merzbow had already been considered some fifteen years ago. In the midst of forced isolation, it was all the more tempting to meet symbolically, following the ways of the World Wide Web. PiaNoise is actually a project born from the health crisis and lockdowns, carried out from different homes in days of anguish and uncertainty. Both artists thus projected their worries about the ongoing crisis and today's ecological disaster

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Discover Pia-Noise by Merzbow on Sub Rosa. A unique collaboration with Nicolas Horvath, blending noise music and piano in a storm of sound.