Sun Ra | Merzbow - Strange City album flac

I hear a lot of merzbow on this and not much Sun Ra. Sound balance seems 90% Merz/ 10% Ra....

Another roll-it-off-by-the-yard Merzbow outing overdubbing some Sun Ra outtakes that might themselves have been a curious listen in their own right. As a piece of hallucinatory or ecstatic noise it's dreary and leaden; as a homage to Sun Ra it's poorly executed and even more unimaginatively presented. It's not even as if this release cuts it as an exercise in iconoclasm (why would you?), nor is it as if Merzbow hasn't previously tackled the dynamics and mythologies of free jazz, but much more daringly and provocatively, such as on his classic 'Door Open at 8am' but this release adds little to Merzbow's increasingly tedious oeuvre and even less to the legacy of Sun Ra.

Whilst appreciating how much you felt like writing, goddamn this is lame.

How utterly worthless. Isn't part of the appeal of noise the lack of celebrity? Please don't support this crap.

Sun Ra was not the "celebrity" that I was referring to. My point was that the noise genre should not elevate any one artist to the pedastal that Merzbow is on. There are sooooo many more interesting "noise" artists out there. It's noise. Let's hear some from everybody.

Merzbow and Sun Ra not at the same level indeed. To put himself to Sun Ra level he must lower themselves. Merzbow it's important part of contemporary music, he is a king of a noise. Sun Ra is just one of many.

So just because he decided to do this as a tribute to a well known artist automatically makes this garbage? Obviously Merzbow has better stuff out there, but this was a solid release (both LP and CD versions are great respectively). I don't regret buying it, sorry you have a sour attitude towards this.

Yes, they are different. CD has Granular Jazz Part 2, 34:03 min. and Livid Sun Loop 32:11 min.