Library Album

Hybrid Noisebloom

One of Merzbow's most accessible 1990s albums, built on EMS and Moog synthesizers, theremin, and processed voice.

Type
Album
Creators
Merzbow, Urashima
Year
1997
Subjects
Sound Instruments
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Recorded at ZSF Produkt Studio in January–February 1997 and originally issued on CD that year by Vinyl Communications, Hybrid Noisebloom is among Merzbow’s more accessible 1990s records: five pieces built from EMS and Moog synthesizers, theremin, metal devices, and sparse, heavily processed vocals, moving between airy restraint and dense noise interplay. Urashima’s 2022 vinyl reissue, remastered by Masami Akita himself, was the album’s first vinyl pressing.