{"product_id":"bardo-thodol","title":"Bardo Thödol","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn their third collaboration, the shared project between Merzbow and Pedro Vian shifts towards less confrontational and more introspective terrain. \u003cem\u003eBardo Thödol\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003eWhere Inside Richard Serra Sculptures and The Wheel of Mani foregrounded a relatively defined dialectic between Vian’s environmental restraint and Masami Akita’s impulsive, textural excess, that friction here appears to dissolve in favour of a more homogeneous mass. Noise, far from its most abrasive edge, is reconfigured as a continuous field — dense yet permeable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWithin this flow, melodic structures emerge without assertion, surfacing almost incidentally as by-products of the accumulation of frequencies itself. The result is less a reconciliation of languages than a blurring of their boundaries: a space in which intensity is internalised and the radical gesture folds into a more sustained, contemplative mode of listening.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Modern Obscure Music","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":57283102736715,"sku":"R2983-1516","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a0064493551_2.jpg?v=1778597219","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/bardo-thodol","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}