Merzbow & Viaz - Bardo Thödol JOHNNY CASH And because it is the

And because it is the title track of our new album 'Danceteria' which Dave Ball worked so extensively on and completed just prior to his passing

and drummer Art Taylor at The Jazz Workshop in San Francisco

Ghost Song (2022) Mélusine (2023)

is the follow up to 2023's Reflector

Merzbow & Viaz - Bardo Thödol JOHNNY CASH And because it is theIn their third collaboration, the shared project between Merzbow and Pedro Vian shifts towards less confrontational and more introspective terrain. Bardo Thdol, released as an LP, draws on The Tibetan Book of the Dead not so much as an explicit narrative framework but as a conceptual resonance: a passage, a suspension between states. Where Inside Richard Serra Sculptures and The Wheel of Mani foregrounded a relatively defined dialectic between Vians