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Masami Akita's relentless output as Merzbow has made him a broad touchstone for experimental musicians and artists treating sound as material with a capital ‘M’. Though the persistence of the harsh noise frame that surrounds him is unquestionably deserved, there's a percussive through line from his earliest recordings that frames him just as well. Vanity Productions and his existentialist touch and blurry sensibility have become a crucial part of the contemporary Nordic electronic and experimental music scenes in the past decade. Stadsgaard paints sonic canvases of modern day melancholia oscillating between electronic experimentation, noise exploration and elevated melodic elaboration, directing tender forces with an assertive and impulsive streak. "The New Peasantry" - the unification of the two projects, goes some way towards foregrounding this. The album is built around piano manipulation, both physical, in the sense of a prepared piano, and digital, through digital signal processing. The piano runs a gauntlet from Conlon Nancarrow to the Clicks and Cuts series. The cumulative effect however, points toward a dystopian avant-garde sensibility, not noise per se. The title leads us here by way of social commentary, evoking the harrowing techno-feudal reality that our IT department overlords have conjured. The gulf between the piano's almost machinic interventions and the remote emotional horizon of the accompaniment mirrors the divide the title suggests, placing The New Peasantry in the orbit of noise's longstanding fascination with atrocity while insisting that its horrors belong not to history but the present. All music by Masami Akita and Christian Stadsgaard Mastered by Alessio Barbuzza
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