Hatomatsuri is the latest dense slab of tinnitus-inducing walled noise from Merzbow. All of the usual musical(?) elements are present – grinding substrates of distorted static, sculpted feedback, wispy features, and drill-like staccato constructs. From these building blocks, Merzbow assembles two 15-minute tracks of loosely-controlled chaos. While Hatomatsuri does not break much ground when compared to the Merzbow discography as a whole (with its more than 500 releases), that is not the point of this project. Instead, let Masami Akita guide you through a truly disorienting and strangely psychedelic torrent of harsh sounds.
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