MERZBOW & PEDRO VIAN - Bardo Thödol LP New Wave at which point they’ll mutate

at which point they’ll mutate further

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

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

You just need to listen to the music closely to hear what it’s always been trying to tell you

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MERZBOW & PEDRO VIAN - Bardo Thödol LP New Wave at which point they’ll mutateIn 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