>Merzbow - 13 Japanese Birds Vol. 13: Chabo (Japanese bantam)
The Japanese bantam or Chabo is a breed of chicken originating in Japan. It is a true bantam breed, meaning that there are no large fowl counterparts. It has a large upright tail that often reaches over the bird's head. The wings angle down, and to the back, along the sides.
There are many colour varieties of Japanese bantam, with standardised colours including birchen grey, black, black mottled, black-tailed buff, black-tailed white, blue, blue mottled, blue-red, brown-red, buff Columbian, cuckoo, dark grey, golden duckwing, gray, lavender, Miller's gray, partridge, red, red mottled, silver-grey, tri-coloured, wheaten and white. There are also frizzle-feathered and Silkie-feathered variations. These chickens have been known to live for up to 13 years with proper care.
I have a very tough time deciding upon what I heard and to what extent I enjoyed it. First of all, Merzbow decides to fuck me over and not include any live drumming. Instead, we get a single 51 minute track made "using the method of several granular synthesis programs and random process of the composition."
While it doesn't feature the best aspect of Merzbow on the previous releases, "Resurrection" features some of the more interesting computer generated harsh noise I have heard so far. There is actually a main siren-like theme buried behind the layers of noise. The track contains some interesting mixing as well which might be the result of the "random process composition" but whatever.
I would separate this piece into 2 sections. The first one lasts 42 min and is mostly attacks your ears with layers and layers and layers of noise. There is 0 sense of anything organic and alive in this. Everything is machine made. Still, it was interesting to follow unlike the absolute bore on the last release.
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