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Dying Mapa I

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Released
  
1983

Artist
  
Merzbow

Label
  
Aeon

Dying Mapa I (1983)
  
Dying Mapa II (1983)

Release date
  
1983

Dying Mapa I httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaenthumbc

Recorded
  
April 28 and May 5, 1982 at Merz-bau, Tokyo

Producer
  
Merzbow Lowest Music & Arts

Genres
  
Noise music, Industrial music

Similar
  
Merzbow albums, Noise music albums, Other albums

Dying Mapa I is an album by the Japanese noise band Merzbow, then consisting of Masami Akita and Kiyoshi Mizutani. This is the first installment of the Dying Mapa trilogy inspired by the Nyingmapa school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Contents

Musically, the whole trilogy is made with different equipment and instruments than other recordings of the same period. It also features instruments recorded on tape and then either slowed down or played backwards.

This album was later included on the 50-CD box set Merzbox on CD 15 along with the first half of Dying Mapa II.

Personnel

  • Masami Akita – tapes, ring modulator, rhythm box, guitar, noise
  • Kiyoshi Mitzutani – violin, percussion
  • Artco – package
  • Songs

    1Denegation
    2Indifferent
    3Opinion for Satva Karman

    References

    Dying Mapa I Wikipedia