Merzbow & Viaz - Bardo Thödol FRANC MOODY Som Bom Magnífico

Som Bom Magnífico

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

Since then

This Rarities EP on Clear Vinyl will act as a pre-cursor to the full album reissue by BMG in May 2023 and includes a selection of unheard rarities found in the band’s archive including a live performance of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born In The USA’ from the Locomotive Club in Paris 1988

The 11-song set is disarmingly real

Merzbow & Viaz - Bardo Thödol FRANC MOODY Som Bom MagníficoIn 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