Merzbow - The Prosperity Of Vice, The Misfortune Of Virtue (2025) (Hi-Res)
FLAC (tracks) 24bit-48kHz - 850 MB
1:08:11 | Electronic, Noise | Label: Room 40
FLAC (tracks) 24bit-48kHz - 850 MB
1:08:11 | Electronic, Noise | Label: Room 40
Recorded in 1996, Merzbow’s The Prosperity Of Vice, The Misfortune Of Virtue is one of a series of unique editions from his vast catalogue that reveals a side of his practice often under represented. During the late 1980s and into the 1990s, Masami Akita was sometimes working on film and theatre music. In this space he created a series of recordings that capture the full scope of his sound worlds. Given the nature of these settings, his compositional approaches were varied, seeking to create both intensely crushing walls of sound and more spatial, and at times rhythmic, pieces that plot out an approach to sound making which atomises his universe of sound, and uncovered the singular detail that is often consumed in the whole.