MERZBOW / JOHN WIESE : Akashaplexia

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'Akashaplexia is a full-length studio collaboration between Merzbow and John Wiese, recorded together in December 2024 at Sound Studio Noah, Tokyo, Japan, and is one an extensively detailed release, both in ambition and presentation, packing over three hours of new material spread over four album-length CDs, and housed in a gorgeous casewrap slipcase box set designed by Wiese. Merzbow and John Wiese have a long history of both live performances and mail collaborations dating over 25 years, which have resulted in numerous releases. Besides collaborations under his own name, Wiese also collaborated with Merzbow as a member of Smegma and with his highly varied group Sissy Spacek. Both artists are well established in the worlds of experimental sound and improvisation, with Merzbow varying from his early acoustic tapes, bordering on free improv and noise, to his notoriously extreme 90s releases, a period of computer based work, and arriving at his current phase of layered mixed approaches, blending in a nod to his early improv days with crude metal junk scraping and psychedelic intensity. Wiese’s approach is a mixture of calculated perfectionist compositions and firey concrète mayhem, with both his solo and group works varying from electronic blasts to tasteful tape collage and manipulations through a hybrid of chopped textures and performances, pushing the thresholds of sound into wild and dramatic territory. (Text by Orlando Laman, see one-sheet for full notes)'

1-1 Garden Path Sentence 45:44
2-1 Bleskam (Action Sphere/Maya) 47:03
3-1 Glass Has Vanished 46:43
4-1 Higashiikebukuro Bouquet Divisions 43:07

Performer – John Wiese, Masami Akita

Recorded 14 December 2024 by Masami Akita and John Wiese in front of a wall-sized mirror at Sound Studio Noah, Tokyo, Japan. Mixed at West. A/D JW. Four digipak CDs in a casewrap slipcase with ribbon.