White Blues

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White Blues
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EP by
Released1994 (1994)
RecordedJuly 1994
StudioZSF Produkt Studio, Tokyo
Genre Noise
Length9:39
Label Self Abuse
Producer Masami Akita
Merzbow chronology
Flare Gun
(1994)
White Blues
(1994)
Hole
(1994)

White Blues is an EP by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow. [1] It is sometimes mistakenly call Now due to the cover. It was released in a limited edition of 500 copies, the first 100 were hand numbered and came in a hand painted sleeve with the inner sleeve made up of hardcore porn pictures.

Contents

The track "Delta Blues" was used on Russell Haswell's track "Micromedley" on the Merzbow remix album Scumtron .

Track listing

All music is composed by Masami Akita.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Crazy Daisy"3:48
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Fighting for Madge"2:11
2."Delta Blues"1:03
3."Episode Six"2:37

Personnel

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References

  1. "Merzbow - White Blues (Vinyl)". Discogs . Retrieved August 10, 2012.