Various – Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled [2CD] Outer Rock (Noise / Psych / Free) rendering a startlingly visceral and

rendering a startlingly visceral and dense effect

Includes insert with liner notes by Tom Hamilton and photos

Released in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series

Christensen layers haunted sung imagery over slow looped constructions of guitar and percussion

Building layers of feedback

Various – Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled [2CD] Outer Rock (Noise / Psych / Free) rendering a startlingly visceral and"Artists were asked to use Merzbow's album Amlux as an instrument in an original composition, rather than to perform the conventional remix. We hoped that this would allow the artist to flourish with greater creative freedom and a less restrictive context. We didn't want to fit this project into any sub genre of music. We wanted it to simply exist. Perhaps the beat oriented tracks, record scratching and vocals will annoy some Noise purists, and