Description
Recorded in 1996, Merzbow’s “The Prosperity Of Vice, The Misfortune Of Virtue” is one of a series of unique editions from his vast catalogue that reveals a side of his practice often under represented. During the late 1980s and into the 1990s, Masami Akita was sometimes working on film and theatre music. In this space he created a series of recordings that capture the full scope of his sound worlds. Given the nature of these settings, his compositional approaches were varied, seeking to create both intensely crushing walls of sound and more spatial, and at times rhythmic, pieces that plot out an approach to sound making which atomizes his universe of sound, and reveal the singular detail that is often consumed in the whole. “The Prosperity Of Vice, The Misfortune Of Virtue” is the soundtrack to the theatre piece “Akutoku no Sakae/Bitoku no Fuko” by Romantica. Based on Marquis de Sades’s Historie de Juliette ou les Prosperités du vice and Les Infortunes de la vertu, this recording was originally released with limited distribution and remains one of the lesser available Merzbow recordings. This edition is completely remastered and contains an additional cut from those original sessions.
Track List:
1. Untitled 1
2. Untitled 2
3. Untitled 3
4. Untitled 4
5. Untitled 5
6. Untitled 6
7. Untitled 7
8. Untitled 8
9. Untitled 9
10. Untitled 10
11. Untitled 11
12. Untitled 12
13. Untitled 13
14. Untitled 14
15. Untitled 15
16. Untitled 16
17. Untitled 17
18. Untitled 18
19. B
