Balázs Pándi

Balázs Pándi

Merzbow & Pándi Balázs performing together on April 13, 2011 at the OCCII in Amsterdam.
Background information
Birth name Pándi Balázs
Also known as 666 Cent, Mustache
Born (1983-08-06) August 6, 1983
Origin Budapest, Hungary
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Occupation(s) Musician, composer
Instruments Drums, accordion
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Balázs Pándi (born 6 August 1983) is a Hungarian drummer. He has worked and toured with various acts from all around the world including Venetian Snares, Otto von Schirach, Last Step, To Live and Shave in L.A., The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble and Zu. He also played drums for the Blood of Heroes project.

Since 2009 he has frequently played drums live with Merzbow,[1] and they have released three live records together. They headlined the experimental stage at the Scion Rock Fest in Tampa, Florida in 2012. More recently, he and Merzbow have performed as a trio with Mats Gustafsson. They released Cuts in 2013 on RareNoise. For the follow-up Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper (2015), they were joined by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.

Balázs started a electronica-metal-breakcore project with Bong-Ra called Wormskull in 2010 (their first album "Sound of Hell" was released in 2011). Most recently he joined the Italian experimental instrumental band Zu. His current projects include Italian doom band Obake, Metallic Taste of Blood (featuring Colin Edwin of Porcupine Tree, Eraldo Bernocchi of Obake and Jamie Saft, and Slobber Pup (Saft, Joe Morris and Trevor Dunn). From 2012 he started to play solo shows on selected festivals under his own name.

Discography

With Jason Köhnen
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2017 Darkness Comes in Two's Svart Lava
With Merzbow
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2010 Live at Fluc Wanne, Vienna, 2010/05/18 Dry Lungs
2011 Ducks: Live in NYC Ohm Resistance
2012 Katowice Instant Classic
2016 Live at FAC251 Cold Spring
With Merzbow and Keiji Haino
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2016 An Untroublesome Defencelessness RareNoise
With Merzbow and Mats Gustafsson
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2013 Cuts RareNoise
2015 Live in Tabačka 13/04/12 Tabačka
With Merzbow, Mats Gustafsson, and Thurston Moore
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2015 Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper RareNoise
With Metallic Taste of Blood
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2012 Metallic Taste of Blood RareNoise
With Obake
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2011 Obake RareNoise
2014 Mutations RareNoise
With Ivo Perelman and Joe Morris
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2013 One RareNoise
With Slobber Pup
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2013 Black Aces RareNoise
2015 Pole Axe RareNoise
With Wadada Leo Smith, Jamie Saft, and Joe Morris
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2014 Red Hill RareNoise
With Rope Cosmetology
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2009 Diffusion de la rue de la Double Identité Karl Schmidt Verlag
2009 Spezial: Gedankengefüge (Compound Thought)
2009 Discoteca Festival
2011 The Honey Fox in Hare's Longing
2012 Disunion Strips
With Roswell Rudd, Jamie Saft, and Trevor Dunn
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2016 Strength & Power RareNoise
With Mikołaj Trzaska and Rafal Mazur
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2014 Tar & Feathers Gusstaff
With Wormskull
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2011 Sound of Hell Ad Noiseam
Other appearances
Year Artist Title Label
2007 Venetian Snares Pink + Green Planet Mu
2008 Last Step 1961 Planet Mu
2010 The Blood of Heroes The Blood of Heroes Ohm Resistance
2011 Submerged Before Fire I Was Against Other People Ohm Resistance
2011 Enduser Even Weight Ad Noiseam
2011 Imaginary Forces Uppstigande Ad Noiseam
2012 The Blood of Heroes The Waking Nightmare Ohm Resistance
2012 Loops Haunt Zenith Black Acre
2013 To Live and Shave in L.A. The Grief That Shrieked to Multiply Monotype
2013 Highness Hold Magic Bullet
2013 Les Rhinocéros Les Rhinocéros II Tzadik
2014 Loops Haunt Exits Black Acre

References

  1. ↑ Ratliff, Ben (September 27, 2010). "A Fusillade of Sound Made for One Noisy Night in Greenwich Village". The New York Times. Retrieved July 24, 2015.
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