Balázs Pándi, Mats Gustafsson,
Merzbow and Thurston Moore
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Japan:London 2016 brings you the world's first ever live performance featuring Japanese noise musician Merzbow, Hungarian drummer Balázs Pándi, Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson (Fire! Orchestra, The Thing) and Sonic Youth great Thurston Moore.
Whilst all hugely respected solo artists themselves, in 2015 the four came together to release the Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper album on Rare Noise Records to great acclaim; being voted in the top 20 Avant Albums of the year by Rolling Stone.
Whilst Gustafsson and Merzbow had previously played together with Moore on the Sonic Youth album SYR8: Andre, Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper was recorded on April 13, 2014 at a skatepark / recording studio in Wembley, London, England. Japan:London is delighted to be bringing the record back to live audiences in the city of it's creation.
"the music is fierce, passionate, and intense. Like Coltrane's Ascension or Coleman's Free Jazzlisteners can absorb the whole or focus on a player by following an individual through each piece" All About Jazz.
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Balázs Pándi
Since 2009 he has frequently played drums live with Merzbow, and they have releases three live records together. They headlined the experimental stage at the Scion Rock Fest in Tampa, Florida in 2012. More recently, he and Merzbow have performed as a trio with Mats Gustafsson. They released Cuts in 2013 on RareNoise. For the follow-up Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper (2015), they were joined by Thurston Moore on Sonic Youth.
Balázs started electronica-metal-breakcore project with Bong-Ra called Wormskull in 2010 (their first album “Sound of Hell” was released in 2011). Most recently he joined the Italian experimental instrumental band Zu. His current projects include Italian doom band Obake, Metallic Taste of Blood (featuring Colin Edwin of Porcupine Tree, Eraldo Bernocchi of Obake and Jamie Saft, and Slobber Pup (Saft, Joe Morris and Trevor Dunn). From 2012 he started to play solo shows on selected festivals under his own name.