MERZILLA
Masami & Room40,
Another gorgeous reissue package with bonus tracks from the sessions. Flare Gun is an absolute favorite & White Blues isn't far behind. Blue vinyl, signed silkscreen print & a hoodie. Icing on a delicious noise cake!
Favorite track: Flare Gun Extra.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Purchasable with gift card
$9USD or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Matte laminate jacket, black inner print, colour vinyl plus a signed silkscreen print of a Merzbow's collage for the 1980s produced by 7th Disaster and a XL Merzbow Hoodie
Includes unlimited streaming of Flare Blues
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 7 days
2 remaining
Purchasable with gift card
$100USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Matte laminate jacket, black inner print, colour vinyl plus a signed silkscreen print of a Merzbow's collage for the 1980s produced by 7th Disaster and a S Merzbow Hoodie
Includes unlimited streaming of Flare Blues
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 7 days
2 remaining
Purchasable with gift card
$100USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Matte laminate sleeve, black inner print, black vinyl
Includes unlimited streaming of Flare Blues
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 7 days
Purchasable with gift card
$19USDor more
Limited Edition Colour LP + Signed Silkscreen print
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Matte laminate jacket, black inner print, colour vinyl plus a signed silkscreen print of a Merzbow's collage for the 1980s produced by 7th Disaster.
Includes unlimited streaming of Flare Blues
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Sold Out
Limited Edition Colour LP + Hoodie + Signed Silkscreen Print
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Matte laminate jacket, black inner print, colour vinyl plus a signed silkscreen print of a Merzbow's collage for the 1980s produced by 7th Disaster. Please specify hoodie size (XL, L and M available)
Includes unlimited streaming of Flare Blues
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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MERZSET - Flare Blues Colour LP, Signed Silkscreen Print, Totebag Hoodie + CDs
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
An incredible catch all - Flare Blues colour LP, signed silver silkscreen print of one of Merzbow's collages, Hoodie (xl,l,m,s available, please specify) + CD copies of Monoakuma, StereoAkuma, Noise Mass (with book!), EXD and Scandal.
Includes unlimited streaming of Flare Blues
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Limited Edition Colour LP + Hoodie M + Signed Silkscreen print
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Matte laminate jacket, black inner print, colour vinyl plus a signed silkscreen print of a Merzbow's collage for the 1980s produced by 7th Disaster and a M Merzbow Hoodie
Includes unlimited streaming of Flare Blues
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Sold Out
Limited Edition Colour LP
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Matte laminate sleeve, black inner print, blue vinyl
Includes unlimited streaming of Flare Blues
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Sold Out
Limited Edition Colour LP + Hoodie L + Signed Silkscreen print
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Matte laminate jacket, black inner print, colour vinyl plus a signed silkscreen print of a Merzbow's collage for the 1980s produced by 7th Disaster and a L Merzbow Hoodie
Includes unlimited streaming of Flare Blues
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Flare Blues reimagines two of Merzbow’s long out of print EPs from 1994, Flare Gun and White Blues. Revisiting the original pieces and adding previously unreleased materials recorded during these sessions, Flare Blues tethers together a set of Merzbow’s most exploratory work, creating a visceral linkage between a pair of vital works.
Originally recorded in June 1994, Merzbow's Flare Gun is a pulsating and hammering collection of pieces that grinds ever forward with a sense of bludgeoning determination. By contrast, White Blues recorded the following month (which draws its title from several of the samples used as raw material that originate from blues inspired British rock bands), maintains a more unsteady sense of movement and musicality, matching degraded samples against a flurry of theremin and electronics which are overdriven and saturated in ways that would later go on to become some of the trademark sonic actions of Merzbow's live performances.
On Flare Blues not only are the pieces remastered by Merzbow, but they are recontextualised and when heard together with the previously unreleased bonus materials open up a new sense of his studio experimentation at the time.
What marks these recordings as critical is they trace a line through a period of significant discovery and refinement for Merzbow. Having been recorded just months after Venereology, this set of works bares the marks of Merzbow’s deepening awareness of extreme forms of distortion, compression and also his dynamic mixing approaches that simultaneously allow multiple or singular elements to occupy the entirety of the available sound spectrum.
Ultimately, these works are morphic, often churning and erupting with a magma like quality. When they do fall into waves of pulse, those patterns are never held long and the intense sense of cutting into the sound creates a feeling of endless anticipation as Merzbow guides you through an ever-evolving sound world that is uncompromisingly restless and relentless.
credits
released October 8, 2021
All Music by Masami Akita
Recorded & Mixed at ZSF Produkt, Tokyo June-July 1994
Remastered at Munemihouse Feb-March 2021
All tracks of 'Flare Gun ' and 'White Blues' are bit longer and a different mix to the original release.
The darkness of this album along with its name is not nonsense, but has a lot to do with what you are going to find when you listen to it. A perfect ambience that gives you chills just trying to imagine what the "Black Crow Cyborg" coming towards you would be like. Two legends together on the same LP, you can't ask for more, LISTEN IT NOW! kato09
This album is easily one of Merzbow's most underrated releases. next to Merzbeat, I think this is probably my second favorite. Colorful, full of texture, noisy, fun, jazzy and unpredictable. Shared Systems 有限
Easily one of my favourite Merzbow records and one of my favourite noise records in general. Expertly crafted and blisteringly hot sonically, it's definitely not one to miss. heckicus_doomicus_wizardus
Industrial music in the truest sense of the word, the latest from Tim Olive pairs factory-like drone with glitched-out computer sounds. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 18, 2021
Every sound here is made using Megan Mitchell's voice, even though the music often sounds more like Earth’s vibrations than a human singing. Bandcamp Album of the Day Mar 28, 2023