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01. Merzbow & Pedro Vian - Bardo Thödol Phase I
02. Merzbow & Pedro Vian - Bardo Thödol Phase II
ARTIST
TITLE
Bardo Thodol
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
MOM 073LP MOM 073LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
7/10/2026

In their third collaboration, the shared project between Merzbow and Pedro Vian shifts towards less confrontational and more introspective terrain. Bardo Thödol, 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 Vian's environmental restraint and Masami Akita's impulsive, textural excess, that friction here appears to dissolve in favor of a more homogeneous mass. Noise, far from its most abrasive edge, is reconfigured as a continuous field -- dense yet permeable. Within this flow, melodic structures emerge without assertion, surfacing almost incidentally as by-products of the accumulation of frequencies itself. The result is less a reconciliation of languages than a blurring of their boundaries: a space in which intensity is internalized and the radical gesture folds into a more sustained, contemplative mode of listening.