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)Khabarovsk Materials1988 Crocidura Dsi Nezumi (1988) Flesh Metal Orgasm (1989)Flesh Metal Orgasm1989

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

Personnel

• Masami Akita – environmental percussion, elektric kokyu, symbal, yokobue, rubber bass, body percussion

Release history

• The Banned Production edition comes with a booklet of graphics by Masami Akita.
• The ZSF Produkt edition comes in a hand-numbered and silkscreened insert.

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