MERZBOW & PEDRO VIAN - Bardo Thödol LP Neo-Crust He speaks with compassion
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He speaks with compassion
Into this juvenile apocalypse our golden blood to pour let us never is an unfiltered and undoctored document of a specific moment in time
Inspired by Aleister Crowley’s Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli
the album focuses on an endless cascade of pirouetting geometric melodics
a steady deep ecstatic low thud dictating the premises over metallic reeds gently strummed by the wind and Stella’s commanding haikus generating human empathy
MERZBOW & PEDRO VIAN - Bardo Thödol LP Neo-Crust He speaks with compassionIn their third collaboration, the shared project between Merzbow and Pedro Vian shifts towards less confrontational and more introspective terrain. Bardo Thdol, released as an LP, draws on The Tibetan Book of the Dead not so much as an explicit narrative framework but as a conceptual resonance: a passage, a suspension between states. Where Inside Richard Serra Sculptures and The Wheel of Mani foregrounded a relatively defined dialectic between Vians