music for the dead man 2: return of the dead man
Merzbow - Music For The Dead Man 2: Return Of The Dead Man
Label: Robot Records
Catalog#: RR-07
Format: 7inch
Country: US
Released: Jun 1994
Genre: Electronic
Style: Noise, Experimental
Credits: Photography - Goffe Struiksma
Notes: All tracks originally made for “The Dead Man 2: Return of the Dead Man”, a film by Ian Kerkhof.
All decomposed and performed by Masami Akita
Recorded and mixed at ZSF Produkt Studio, Tokyo on June 1994.
Pressed on translucent orange vinyl.
Tracklisting:
A1 Fire
A2 Burning Buildings Of Waco, Texas
B1 Taxi In The Car Wash
B2 The Beach
September 1st, 2006 at 6:45 pm
[…] Kerkhof based only one of his pornological explorations – The Dead Man 2:Return of the Dead Man (1994) - on the French philosopher Georges Bataille’s posthumous text, Le Mort (1967). But this Bataillesque inspiration is felt in all his pornologies. With this thinker who wanted to philosophise “like a whore lifting up her skirt,” a philosopher who recognised himself in André Masson’s headless Dionysis – A-céphale –, Kerkhof shares a fascination for eroticism, violence, mystic ecstasy, loss of self, and death, as well as the surrealist insight that in the modern world art is the last sanctuary in which these fascinations can still be reflected. In Kaganof’s ‘Sanctuary Mental Space’ (sms)Kerkhof’s fascinations are commemorated and radically transformed. […]