MERZBOW / RICHARD PINHAS - KEIO LINE (2CD - USED m-/m-)

"Richard Pinhas has been at the forefront of new rock music in France since the early 1970s when he founded the band Heldon, one of the first bands to meld rock music and electronics. He has long been recognized as a pivotal figure in the development of electronic rock music. Active since 1979, Masami Akita aka Merzbow is considered the originator of Japanese noise music. Richard and Merzbow are both among the best-known figures in electronic rock music today. Despite coming from very different musical backgrounds, they had long expressed admiration for each other's work and this collaborative meeting, recorded over two days in Tokyo while Richard was on his second tour of Japan was as inevitable as it is musically surprising and satisfying! On their first-ever work together, two of the world's leaders of underground, contemporary, electronic rock music collaborate on a release that is violent, soothing, hypnotic, noisy and trance inducing." (label info)