*2025 stock* The live recording from New York’s Knitting Factory captures noise guru Merzbow in transcendent form, serving the audience with subtle hypnotic pulses to go with rich textures of raw to low frequencies. The immersive baths of sonic clusters, sine wave swoops, rumbling low mids and glissandos jumping off of rooftops diving down to dervish dance of bit fragments offer the listener a rare glimpse of what it means to find soothing charm and calm in the chaos.
Sharing the bill and the stage with Merzbow on September 6, 2005 were the Finnish avant rock mavericks Circle. The serenity of their joint venture, attesting the genuine artistry of both acts, is cut out in mid-flight at approximately twenty-two minute mark due to recording device running out of tape.
