Merzbow & Oren Ambarchi – Cat's Squirrel CD 10" Vinyl Messa play evoking doom metal

Messa play evoking doom metal with a dark jazz twist

‘Rotting in the Aftermath’ marks the band’s fourth album

which was itself accused of blasphemy

“Triptych”

but the next ones inexorably begin

Merzbow & Oren Ambarchi – Cat's Squirrel CD 10" Vinyl Messa play evoking doom metalCat's Squirrel is a live recording of Masami Akita & Oren Ambarchi's performance in Sydney, Australia in May 2012. Although Akita & Ambarchi have known one another since 1993 & performed together as part of larger ensembles, this was their first performance as a duo. Together they create a massive wall of sound that moves from the cavernous to the blisteringly psychedelic, laying down shifting low end structures over which pointillist details ricochet