Paradoxa Paradoxa

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]

Paradoxa Paradoxa – Live at Kid Airak Hall
Live album by
Merzbow
Released1982
RecordedMarch 22, 1981 at Kid Ailack Art Hall, Tokyo
GenreNoise, free improvisation
Length45:42
LabelLowest Music & Arts
ProducerMasami Akita
Merzbow chronology
Expanded Music 2
(1982)		 Paradoxa Paradoxa – Live at Kid Airak Hall
(1982)		 Solonoise 1
(1982)

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
No.TitleLength
1."Part. I"23:28
Side two
No.TitleLength
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
Japan 1982 Lowest Music & Arts Cassette Unknown None
1988 ZSF Produkt
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References
  1. "Merzbow - Paradoxa Paradoxa". Discogs. Retrieved February 23, 2014.
  2. Woodward, Brett (1999). Merzbook: The Pleasuredome of Noise. Extreme. p. 88. ISBN 0-646-38326-4.
  3. "Merzbow". Primordial. Vol. 2. 1985. pp. 2–3.
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