Merzbow & Viaz - Bardo Thödol FRANC MOODY The 11-song set is disarmingly

The 11-song set is disarmingly real

Also imperative was to manipulate the social conditions in which the takes were performed and nail the ‘vibe’ during recording: “It was all “attitude towards life and esoteric stuff

Machine Girl have always operated as an inimitable & inventive sonic phenomenon

A note on the 2LP format: "The album was originally mixed and mastered for a 2LP format

Merzbow & Viaz - Bardo Thödol FRANC MOODY The 11-song set is disarminglyIn 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