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Vratya Southward

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Released
  
1987 (1987)

Length
  
42:11

Producer
  
Masami Akita

Artist
  
Merzbow

Genre
  
Noise music

Recorded
  
End of 1986

Label
  
ZSF Produkt

Vratya Southward (1987)
  
Storage (1988)

Release date
  
1987

Similar
  
Noise music albums, Other albums

Merzbow merzbox 25 vratya southward full album


Vratya Southward is an album by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow. It is one of two cassettes made with raw material from Ecobondage, Enclosure being the first. It includes a field recording of the Menkake gyōretsu (面掛行列?, mask procession) festival at the Goryō shrine in Kamakura. Masami Akita posted photos of the procession on his blog in 2010.

Contents

It was later included in the Merzbox with a bonus track.

Personnel

  • Masami Akita – performer
  • Kiyoshi Mizutani – organ on "Cellage/Microbe"
  • References

    Vratya Southward Wikipedia