Eternal Stalker

Description

On their first official collaboration, Japanese noise pioneer Masami Akita aka Merzbow and Australian sound sculptor Lawrence English present a harrowing, surrealist portrait of nocturnal industrial activity, spawned by field recordings made in a sprawling factory complex seven hours north of English’s home in Brisbane. He characterizes the area as ‘uneasy and unsettling,’ awash in the sickly glow of smelters and refinement machinery, somehow not of this world – a liminal quality vividly captured in Andrei Tarkovsky’s sprawling purgatorial opus, Stalker, to which the title alludes.

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. The Long Dream – Merzbow & Lawrence English
2. A Gate of Light – Merzbow & Lawrence English
3. The Visit – Merzbow & Lawrence English
4. Magnetic Traps – Merzbow & Lawrence English
5. The Golden Sphere – Merzbow & Lawrence English
6. Black Thicket – Merzbow & Lawrence English
7. A Thing, Just Silence – Merzbow & Lawrence English