(Noise, Free Improvisation) [CD] Merzbow - Storage - 2016 (1988), FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

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Merzbow / Storage
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REM GENRE Noise
REM DATE 2016
REM DISCID 1F0FEF03
REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v1.6"
PERFORMER "Merzbow"
TITLE "Storage"
REM COMPOSER ""
FILE "01 - War Storage Pt. 1.wav" WAVE
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "War Storage Pt. 1"
    PERFORMER "Merzbow"
    REM COMPOSER ""
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "02 - War Storage Pt. 2.wav" WAVE
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "War Storage Pt. 2"
    PERFORMER "Merzbow"
    REM COMPOSER ""
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "03 - War Storage Pt. 3.wav" WAVE
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "War Storage Pt. 3"
    PERFORMER "Merzbow"
    REM COMPOSER ""
    INDEX 01 00:00:00

The first two track were originally published on LP on the ZSF label in 1988.
Masami Akita creates in Storage a very experimental and atmospheric album with a masterful use of scraping sounds and metal percussions but also with a very effective use of silence.
A strongly hypnotic and creepy sounding early analog Merzbow album.
The third track is harsher and is a full on wall of electronic noise.
The third track was published as an extra track for the CD reissue issued in the Merzbox is re-issued here for the first time ever on vinyl.
Re-re-mastered by Masami Akita from original cassette at Munemihouse, Tokyo, in 2016.