Paradoxa Paradoxa
| Paradoxa Paradoxa – Live at Kid Airak Hall | ||||
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| Live album by Merzbow | ||||
| Released | 1982 | |||
| Recorded | March 22, 1981 at Kid Ailack Art Hall, Tokyo | |||
| Genre | Noise, free improvisation | |||
| Length | 45:42 | |||
| Label | Lowest Music & Arts | |||
| Producer | Masami Akita | |||
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Paradoxa Paradoxa (パラドクサ・パラドクサ), also known as Live at Kid Airak Hall. It is a live album of the Japanese noise group Merzbow's first live performance.[1][2]
It is sometimes referred to as a separate album called Live at Kid Airak Hall because Paradoxa Paradoxa is only written in Japanese on the insert.[2][3]
Material from this tape was included on the album Tridal Production. The full-length concert recording was later included in the Merzbox (2000).
Track listing
| Side one | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 1. | "Part. I" | 23:28 | ||||||||
| Side two | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 1. | "Part. II" | 22:14 | ||||||||
Personnel
- Instruments: tapes, rhythm machine, organ, alto saxophone, electric violin, synare, drums, microphone, percussion, synthesizer, slide projection
- Sound assemblage and performance by Merzbow
[from original cassette]
- Masami Akita – tapes, alto saxophone, synthesizer, processed FM radio, noise, slide
- Kiyoshi Mizutani – organ, violin, tapes
[from reissue]
Release history
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Quantity | Catalog | Sold Out |
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| Japan | 1982 | Lowest Music & Arts | Cassette | Unknown | None | Yes |
| 1988 | ZSF Produkt |