Masami Akita

Masami Akita is the given name of the Japanese power electronics composer, writer, editor, cultural theorist, environmentalist, and animal rights activist <a href="spotify:artist:5UezsklPScipW64XJm7qql">Merzbow</a>. He has recorded well over 400 albums. Akita, deeply influenced by Dada and surrealism, holds an ever-shifting fascination with found objects, free improvisation, and noise. He began "officially" releasing albums under his own name in 1983. Most of these recordings are collaborations -- but the actual reason for the differentiation from "<a href="spotify:artist:5UezsklPScipW64XJm7qql">Merzbow</a>" is unclear. In 2016, Kouen Kyoudai, a collaborative recording with Japanese multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and indie pop artist <a href="spotify:artist:0E2zPwLuNlSFdSI5wmqox7">Eiko Ishibashi</a>, was issued on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Editions+Mego%22">Editions Mego</a>. It was recorded and mixed by <a href="spotify:artist:46urSPEzIrRVqKqciwOq2f">Jim O'Rourke</a>. Consisting of two long tracks, it is only the eighth album in Akita's catalog to appear under his own name. ~ Thom Jurek, Rovi