Crocidura Dsi Nezumi

Crocidura Dsi Nezumi
Studio album by Merzbow
Released 1988
Recorded August 1987
Genre Noise
Length 46:50
Label Banned Production, ZSF Produkt
Producer Masami Akita
Merzbow chronology

Khabarovsk Materials
(1988)		 Crocidura Dsi Nezumi
(1988)		 Flesh Metal Orgasm
(1989)

Crocidura Dsi Nezumi (サイゴクヂネズミ) is an album by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow.[1] It is "unplugged noise" made using household objects; violin sounds are made with a violin bow on a plastic cassette case or wood, guitar is a rubber band, trumpet is a toilet paper tube, electrical sounds are made with metal. Environmental percussion is the floor, gas stove, the spring of a table lamp, etc. Titles are taken from the Latin names of the Japanese White-toothed Shrew, Japanese stoat, and Japanese weasel.[2]

It was included in the Merzbox with a bonus track.

Track listing

Side A
No. Title Length
1. "Mustela Erminea Nippon" (ヤマイタチ) 23:50
Side B
No. Title Length
1. "Mustela Sixasa Namiyei" (コエゾイタチ) 23:00

Personnel

Release history

Region Date Label Format Quantity Catalog
United States 1988 Banned Production C46 n/a BP-27
Japan ZSF Produkt 43 ZSF 203

References

  1. ↑ "Merzbow - Crocidura Dsi Nezumi". Discogs. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
  2. ↑ Woodward, Brett (1999). Merzbook: The Pleasuredome of Noise. Melbourne, Australia: Extreme Records. ISBN 0646383264.