The Prosperity Of Vice, The Misfortune Of Virtue [CD]

Merzbow - The Prosperity Of Vice, The Misfortune Of Virtue [CD]

"Recorded in 1996, Merzbow's The Prosperity Of Vice, The Misfortune Of Virtue is one of a series of unique editions from his vast catalogue that reveals a side of his practice often under represented. During the late 1980s and into the 1990s, Masami Akita was sometimes working on film and theatre music. In this space he created a series of recordings that capture the full scope of his sound worlds. Given the nature of these settings, his compositional approaches were varied, seeking to create both intensely crushing walls of sound and more spatial, and at times rhythmic, pieces that plot out an approach to sound making which atomizes his universe of sound, and uncovered the singular detail that is often consumed in the whole. The Prosperity Of Vice, The Misfortune Of Virtue is the soundtrack to the theatre piece "Akutoku no Sakae/Bitoku no Fuko" by Romantica. Based on Marquis de Sades's Historie de Juliette ou les Prosperités du vice and Les Infortunes de la vertu, this recording was originally released with limited distribution and remains one of the lesser available Merzbow recordings. This edition is completely remastered and contains an additional cut from those original sessions. Cheers." --Lawrence English 1. 1. Untitled 1_x000D_ 2. 2. Untitled 2_x000D_ 3. 3. Untitled 3_x000D_ 4. 4. Untitled 4_x000D_ 5. 5. Untitled 5_x000D_ 6. 6. Untitled 6_x000D_ 7. 7. Untitled 7_x000D_ 8. 8. Untitled 8_x000D_ 9. 9. Untitled 9_x000D_ 10. 10. Untitled 10_x000D_ 11. 11. Untitled 11_x000D_ 12. 12. Untitled 12_x000D_ 13. 13. Untitled 13_x000D_ 14. 14. Untitled 14_x000D_ 15. 15. Untitled 15_x000D_ 16. 16. Untitled 16_x000D_ 17. 17. Untitled 17_x000D_ 18. 18. Untitled 18_x000D_ 19. 19. B