Length 37:06 Release date 10 March 2010 Label Cold Spring Genre Noise music | Artist Merzbow Producer Merzbow Songs Graft #1, Graft #2 | |
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Released March 10, 2010 (2010-03-10) Recorded November 2009 at Munemi House, Tokyo Similar Noise music albums, Other albums | ||
Graft is an album by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow. The recording was inspired by the plant illustrations in the Voynich manuscript, and the design was inspired by a 1970s Jethro Tull bootleg called My God. The artwork for Hiranya was also inspired by a Jethro Tull album.
Contents
An unreleased work called "samidara1" was played during an event at ohrenhoch in Berlin, Merzbow described it as "using the method of several granular synthesis programs and random process of the composition.", and referenced Graft, Chabo, Jigokuhen, and Ouroboros as having the same concept.
Track listing
All music composed by Masami Akita.
Release history
The LP is pressed on lime green vinyl, and comes in a plain white sleeve stamped with the name "Merzbow" and sealed with a sticker featuring the album notes. The first 150 mail order copies include a bonus 7" (on black vinyl). It was deleted when it sold out and will never be reissued on CD.