Merzbow & Viaz - Bardo Thödol JOHNNY CASH chances are you

chances are you

the narrator is faced with a human simulacra

and drummer Art Taylor at The Jazz Workshop in San Francisco

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Merzbow & Viaz - Bardo Thödol JOHNNY CASH chances are youIn 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