MERZBOW & PEDRO VIAN - Bardo Thödol LP New Wave though it remains firmly rooted

though it remains firmly rooted in the rigor and precision that have come to define Arkbro’s concept

experimental yet familiar in its intimacy

never been this honest

all varied

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MERZBOW & PEDRO VIAN - Bardo Thödol LP New Wave though it remains firmly rootedIn 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