Sphere (album)
Sphere is an album by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow.[3]
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Released | April 26, 2005 | |||
Recorded | October–November 2004 | |||
Studio | Bedroom and Living Room, Tokyo | |||
Genre | Noise | |||
Length | 67:47 | |||
Label | Tzadik | |||
Producer | Masami Akita | |||
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"Untitled for Vasteras" is a recreation of a live set performed at the Perspectives jazz festival in Västerås, Sweden in October 2004. The original live recording appears on Houjoue as "Rising Sun".[4]
The cover photo was taken in the lobby of the Daily News Building in New York City.

Globe in the lobby of the Daily News Building, New York City
Track listing
All music is composed by Masami Akita.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Sphere Pt. 1" | 9:13 |
2. | "Sphere Pt. 2" | 15:29 |
3. | "Sphere Pt. 3" | 13:30 |
4. | "Untitled for Vasteras" | 29:35 |
Personnel
- Masami Akita – computer, percussion
- Jenny Akita – photography
- John Zorn – executive producer
- Kazunori Sugiyama – associate producer
- Scott Hull at Hit Factory Mastering – mastering
- Heung-Heung Chin – design
gollark: It's not that hard.
gollark: An accident in a potatOS computer factory ended up using an estimated 60MB of space after ~200 more computers got potatOS installed than were needed.
gollark: I mean, with computercraft you could just make arbitrarily large amounts of floppy disks too.
gollark: That's actual MB, not MiB.
gollark: I think it's separate, and a 32 minute one is 11.52MB.
References
- Allmusic review
- Batty, Roger. "Review: Sphere". Musique Machine. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
- "Merzbow - Sphere (CD)". Discogs. Retrieved May 26, 2012.
- Roger Batty (April 4, 2006). "Animal instincts". Musique Machine. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
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