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Ecobondage

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Released
  
1987 (1987)

Ecobondage (1987)
  
Enclosure (1987)

Release date
  
1987

Label
  
ZSF Produkt

Length
  
66:17 (reissue)

Artist
  
Merzbow

Producer
  
Merzbow

Genre
  
Noise music

Recorded
  
December 1986 – July 1987 at ZSF Produkt Studio, Asagaya, Tokyo

Similar
  
Merzbow albums, Noise music albums, Other albums

Merzbow ecobondage ending


Ecobondage is an album by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow, it uses "handmade thin metal precussion, with an emphasis on scratched metal noises".The title stands for "Bondage Economy". The album was inspired by Michel Foucault's book The Birth of the Clinic, and Masami Akita wrote Anagram of Perversion, his first book, during the recording of the album.

Contents

Two cassettes were made using raw material from the album, Enclosure and Vratya Southward.

The track "Ecobondage [Ending]" was remixed by Autechre on the Merzbow remix album Scumtron.

Merzbow ecobondage album review


Track listing

Vinyl version

All music composed by Masami Akita.

CD reissue

All music composed by Masami Akita.

Personnel

  • Masami Akita – performer
  • Kiyoshi Mizutani – keyboards on "Ecobondage", computer on "Contraction"
  • Paul Hurst – tape on "Balloon"
  • Mamoru Murayama/Ad Suprex – cover [original]
  • Abtechtonics – artwork [reissue]
  • Songs

    1Ecobondage
    2Prison of Takau
    3Blow Up

    References

    Ecobondage Wikipedia