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Rating: LA RECENSIONE
Merzbow is a figure who, with a mania that borders on the extreme, has relentlessly pursued the path of a-musicality for years; for every creation, he turns his back on everything that has always existed in music and... makes music by destroying music: noise, harsh noise.
Cycle is among the most representative works of the more experimental Merzbow and contains two tracks lasting about an hour and ten minutes. The first, more akin to the analog period, is destructive, epochal, massive yet less extreme and more calibrated than many of his other works. The sounds are indeed much more solid and "compact" and less shrill and piercing. "Cycle Part 2": enlightenment. A suite made of ambient noisescapes and avant-garde electronics that reveals a sensitivity and sharpness that, despite the premise of congenital extremity in Merzbow's music, even comes to be unexpected.
Samples of all kinds chase each other in an apotheosis of oddities that play with breaking boundaries in a completely deconstructed musical landscape that culminates in an...sweet (!) finale. An acid yet refined sampling with a melancholic taste closes the Cycle experience. And finally, one catches one's breath in disbelief that a new Mozart has returned to bring genuineness to the world of music (and it is all this art needs).
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Merzbow's Cycle exemplifies his extreme pursuit of noise as a form of musical destruction and creation. The album spans two lengthy tracks, with the first delivering a massive yet calibrated analog noise experience. The second track surprises with sophisticated ambient noise and avant-garde electronic textures, culminating in an unexpectedly sweet and melancholic finale.Tracklist
Merzbow
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