CAT'S SQUIRREL, by Merzbow & Oren Ambarchi

CAT'S SQUIRREL

by Merzbow & Oren Ambarchi

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	1.	Cat's Squirrel 1 16:33		buy track
	2.	Cat's Squirrel 2 15:33		buy track

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Cat's Squirrel is a live recording of Masami Akita & Oren Ambarchi's performance in Sydney, Australia in May 2012. Although Akita & Ambarchi have known one another since 1993 & performed together as part of larger ensembles, this was their first performance as a duo. Together they create a massive wall of sound that moves from the cavernous to the blisteringly psychedelic, laying down shifting low-end structures over which pointillist details ricochet across the stereo field. Akita & Ambarchi's voices blend together into a sonic morass.

Moving through a number of episodes, from deluges of reverberated metal screeches to rapid-fire iterations of visceral electronic tones, the record reaches a high point midway through the second side, where Akita's electronics gradually thin out into a stream of skipping chirps & screeches while around him Ambarchi builds up a dense mass of phasing low-end guitar tones; the duo patiently developing an impenetrable wall of ecstatic, psychedelic noise.

- Francis Plagne

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released December 21, 2013

Composed/performed by Masami Akita & Oren Ambarchi

Recorded by Matt McGuigan & Jake Craig
Mastered by Joe Talia & Oren Ambarchi

Cover image by Shinichiro Okada
Design & Layout by Webuyyourkids

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