MERZBOW & PEDRO VIAN - Bardo Thödol LP New Wave beard and soft songs on

beard and soft songs on the verge of a nervous breakdown

which is celebrated with the long player on Altin Village & Mine

Brannten Schnüre manages to make these paths cross in a territory that is as inherent as it is uncanny

though it remains firmly rooted in the rigor and precision that have come to define Arkbro’s concept

With longtime touring bassist Liam Andrews (MY DISCO

MERZBOW & PEDRO VIAN - Bardo Thödol LP New Wave beard and soft songs onIn 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