blog2012-02-01T13:15:10+09:00animal rights and veganismJUGEMsamidara 1http://blog.merzbow.net/?eid=10860702012-02-01T12:59:00+09:002012-02-01T04:02:48Z2012-02-01T03:59:00Z
ohrenhoch - the Noise Shop | Weichselstr. 49 | 12045 Berlin-Neukölln
To hear on Sunday 5 and 12 February 2012, 2pm - 9pm:
'samidara1' (Premiere) by Merzbow
ohrenhoch
merzbow
ohrenhoch - the Noise Shop | Weichselstr. 49 | 12045 Berlin-Neukölln
To hear on Sunday 5 and 12 February 2012, 2pm - 9pm:
'samidara1' (Premiere) by Merzbow
ohrenhoch
]]>itsu akitsuhttp://blog.merzbow.net/?eid=10860692012-01-28T15:50:00+09:002012-01-28T06:52:19Z2012-01-28T06:50:00Z
sample mix
upcoming 12' on samboygethelp
merzbow
sample mix
upcoming 12' on samboygethelp
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sample mix
upcoming cassette on
midnightsearecords
merzbow
sample mix
upcoming cassette on
midnightsearecords
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unreleased 2009merzbow
unreleased 2009]]>ko to no o to pt.1 (excerpt)http://blog.merzbow.net/?eid=10860662012-01-26T21:26:00+09:002012-01-26T18:43:50Z2012-01-26T12:26:00Z
sample 2012
soon available 7' at :retortrecords
merzbow
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Samsas Traum vs. Weena Morloch. .Kafer.Maden.Wurmer.Spinnen. 2CD.
Samsas Traum
Wrench『EDGE OF CHAOS reCONSTRUCTION / LIVE&REMIXXX』
Wrench
merzbow
Samsas Traum vs. Weena Morloch. .Kafer.Maden.Wurmer.Spinnen. 2CD.
Samsas Traum
Wrench『EDGE OF CHAOS reCONSTRUCTION / LIVE&REMIXXX』
Wrench
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Merzcow series 第2作目がリリースされました
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hypnagogiamerzbow
Yesterday (on Sunday) I was in Chernobyl zone with 2 my friend who were doing fotos.
It wasn't really easy to get everywhere in 10 km restricted zone , so we were traveling on military car with 2 guards, very limited in time.
The lost city Pripiat' is most intersting place, but it on 99% already occupied by wild trees, almost impossible to get exess deeper in the city without special wear/gear.
Most of the houses already broken and there's a constant danger for 5 or 9-floor buildings to be fallen soon.
Anyway, we did some fotos in Pripiat & Chernobyl. I'm really depressed with that trip, though it's the Realm of Trees now, but the energy (we are Orthodox Christians here called it God's Spirit or maybe you know the Vedic word Pranayama or Chinese people call it Tzi energy), so that energetic fields are very wrapped, somewhere it's just terrifying emptiness, somewhere it's dangerously vibrating - very unhuman feeling, it's not like you feel yourself in the usual village or on the wild field, not like in the city.
photos by Ira Solomykina, Pavel Shevchuk and Alexander Khaverchuk
"The multi-billions tras-international concerns think we want more and more cars, computers and mobile phones. For offering all these crap to us for cheap, they need more and more cheap energy. They want more nuclear power plants around the Globe, which are powerfull and good in making money, but this technology is extremely dangerous for the people and for our planet. To get a cheap plastic junk today, we are agree to kill our child's future.
We have already had two colossal nuclear disasters in only last 25 years: Chernobyl (Ukraine) in 1986 and Fukushima (Japan) in 2011. There are lots of information everywhere about the consequences of both and do we really need more proofs?
Japanese noise musician Masami Akita recorded CD "Dead Zone" in March 2011, the day of the first explosion of Fukushima Nuclear power plant.
This CD is dedicated to the worldwide anti-nuclear movement.
Please, stop nuclear madness.
We don't need more and more power.
We don't want progress like this.
We'd rather make step back to the past to protect our kid's future.
Please stop all working power plants, do not build any new.
We don't want to kill our home.
Please stop."
(Message from quasipop)
]]>Kochen Ohne Knochenhttp://blog.merzbow.net/?eid=10860562011-02-21T22:53:00+09:002011-02-21T16:52:04Z2011-02-21T13:53:00Z Merzbow Interview on 'Kochen Ohne Knochen' #04 (01/2011) - why/when did you become a vegetarian? any developes towards vegan lifestyle?It was around 2002, I started raising four bantams, the little ornamental chickens. With this experience as a start,...merzbow
Merzbow Interview on 'Kochen Ohne Knochen' #04 (01/2011)
- why/when did you become a vegetarian? any developes towards vegan lifestyle?
It was around 2002, I started raising four bantams, the little ornamental chickens. With this experience as a start, I gradually started to be concerned and care about chickens and all the barn animals I used to eat without giving it a second thought before. So I started reading books and researching on the internet about Animal Rights and that triggered an awareness of “evil” that human society has done. And that’s how I became a Vegan.
- can you tell me about vegetarian culture in japan nowadays and in history?
Vegetarian culture in Japan is widely taken in terms of food culture and health. Japan has a history of brown rice and organic vegetable consumption. But the vegetarian culture nowadays owes a great deal with re-import of Macrobiotic, which originally Yukikazu Sakurazawa (aka George Ohsawa) and Michio Kushi popularized oversea. While it has a large following among the rich, we hardly see any ideas and concepts of Animal Rights at the root of this kind of vegetarian culture. On the other hand in other countries, although Macrobiotic is accepted by also celebrities such as Madonna, still there is culture of Animal Rights as well. That’s the big difference between vegetarian culture in Japan and in other countries.
Going back to ancient times in Japan, influenced by Buddhism, successive emperors were vegetarians in much the same way as Animal Rights activists are. Since 7th century, the emperors would impose frequent orders to prohibit eating meat due to Buddhism teachings “Not to eat meat of the animal”. Since then, the Japanese diet was mainly based on rice. The eating of meat was tabooed and hated until the United States came to open the country in 19th century. They eventually started to force habits of eating meat on people and consequently even the emperor accepted it and became a meat eater. Eating meat became more and more common as the westernization of Japan went on.
- is there a vegan movement, too?
There’s no really a movement, except very few individuals and NPOs who have been working to advocate Vegan and Animal Rights.
- are vegetarians established or is it more like a subculture? is it connected with political positions?
As I mentioned, vegetarians are established as food culture but not so much in a political sense such as Animal Rights. Anti whaling campaign by Greenpeace, and 'The Cove' a documentary film about dolphin hunting in Japan have been hot topics these years. Although these issues have caused controversy to question the need for commercial whaling which is being carried out by the Japanese government as a national policy, they have not discussed the problem of whaling as Vegetarian or Animal Rights issues. In other words, for most Japanese the whaling issue is nothing more than a matter of nationalism. But it never comes down to a fundamental question over Vegetarians or Animal Rights.
- can you tell me about your book? what's it all about? why did you write it? how are the feedbacks? any chances/plans for english or german or other translations and releases?
I published a book called “Watashi no Saishokuseikatsu” (Cruelty Free Life) in 2005. It is about why I became a Vegan, my everyday life with animals, relationship with the animals and my work as a musician, basic background knowledge about Vegan and Animal Rights, recipes for Vegan dishes. It also talks about the history of the prohibition of eating meat in Japan. No release plans for overseas at the moment.
-you are active for animal rights- in which way? can you tell about animal shelter in japan? what are your personal aims?
So far I have participated in demonstrations or protest activities held by PETA and ARC (Animal Rights Center), an animal rights group in Japan. I think it is important to promote thoughts and ideas of Animal Rights and Vegan through my musical activities. For this I have not only released my works on the subject but also put leaflets regarding Animal Rights into mail-order packages, or put PETA stickers on my equipments.
I don’t really know about animal shelters in Japan in detail but I assume there are some individuals and small-scale NPOs to take care for mainly cats and dogs.
-you live with animals? which ones? can you tell about your everyday life with them? are they family members fr you, or how oes it feel for you(them)? when you are touring, who takes care for them? can you tell about your relationship towards animals in your life, did it change from childhood to now?
Currently I have bantams, fantails pigeons, Ukokkei fowls (silky fowl) and duck. Some of them were brought in from hospitals and other activists. They are domestic poultry as well as ornamental birds. I keep them in a pergola. They are part of my family. While I’m away on tour, my family takes care of them.
-in what kind your arts are connected with animals (f e the bird serials or cds which have some animal shelter topics (i have the one about whaling...and on a lot of the covers are animals, right? is this concept? i found out: (my) children love the merzbow covers, like "merzbeat" or "dolphin sonar" or the one with the wulf...)
All the arts I have done since I became a Vegan have to do with animals. In other words, my creative activities are a part of Vegan-Animal Rights activities as well. From the standpoint of a Vegan, I also promote antismoking campaign as in concert venues are made into completely smoke-free and alert people not to smoke while walking.
Interview by Andre Pluskwa
kochen ohne knochen]]>merzcowhttp://blog.merzbow.net/?eid=10860552011-02-12T01:35:00+09:002011-10-11T15:33:29Z2011-02-11T16:35:00ZKamadheu CDThe New Blockaders / Merzbow / aNoMaLi - 'Kali-Yuga Karma' CD (ed.300)
UKのHypnagogiaからMERZBOW関連のリリースが続けてあります まず、The New Blockaders / Merzbow / aNoMaLi - 'Kali-Yuga Karma' CD です この作品は数年前から企画さ...merzbow Kamadheu CD
The New Blockaders / Merzbow / aNoMaLi - 'Kali-Yuga Karma' CD (ed.300)
UKのHypnagogiaからMERZBOW関連のリリースが続けてあります
まず、The New Blockaders / Merzbow / aNoMaLi - 'Kali-Yuga Karma' CD です
インドのヴリンダヴァンというクリシュナ生誕の地として知られる ヒンズー教の聖地にCare For Cowsという施設があります
古来牛を聖なる動物として尊重するインドですが
実際は病気や怪我をしたり 餌も与えられずに餓死寸前の牛たちが路上に溢れているようです
Care For Cowsはそうした牛たちを保護し世話をする為の施設です
私の今回の作品は「牛」たちへのオマージュです
Care for Cowsの協力で素晴らしい牛たちの写真を使用する事ができました
www.careforcows.org まだ詳細をお知らせできませんが夏にはこの続編のリリースがすでに決定しています
The images, audio & track-titles will hopefully express the pain, horror, anger, confusion & sadness unnecessary animal-slaughter causes both to the animals and to sensitive persons who can empathise with them. Hopefully some purchasers of this CD will be encouraged to stop eating the innocent victims of the slaughterhouses.
(Compilation featuring 14 Vegetarian/Vegan Sound-Artists inc. Merzbow, The New Blockaders, aNoMaLi, John Wiese, Dave Phillips, Dieter Muh, Raionbashi, etc..)
