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Turmeric (album)

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Length
  
217:56

Release date
  
23 March 2006

Label
  
Blossoming Noise

Artist
  
Merzbow

Producer
  
Merzbow

Genre
  
Noise music

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Released
  
March 23, 2006 (2006-03-23)

Recorded
  
November–December 2005 at Bedroom, Tokyo

Similar
  
Merzbow albums, Noise music albums, Other albums

Turmeric is a box set album by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow. It marks Merzbow's return to using metals and feedback since switching to computers. The album art depicts Masami Akita's pet Silkie chickens, which have black skin and bones. They are also referred to on Animal Magnetism and Higanbana.

Contents

Some of the sounds are made by a chicken pecking at objects. "Deaf Composition" was made by randomly operating Reaktor patches without monitoring.

In addition to the standard release, there was a special edition in a metal lunch box. It includes: the standard edition, a mini-CD titled Black Bone, Part 5, a T-shirt, four postcards, and two vinyl stickers. A limited number of the mini-CDs were available separately.

Track listing

All music composed by Masami Akita.

Personnel

  • Masami Akita – Max/MSP 2, VST plugin, Reaktor 2.0 & 4, Peak 2.1 TDM, HyperEngine 2.3.1, HyperEngine-AV 1.5, EMS Synthi A, small tin box, piezoelectric mic, duck call, surrounded objects, effects
  • Victoria – percussion
  • Jenny Akita – photography
  • Graham Moore – layout, design
  • Songs

    1Black Flesh - Part 13:49
    2Black Flesh - Part 29:46
    3Black Flesh - Part 319:37

    References

    Turmeric (album) Wikipedia