Biography
SYR 8: a live record released on Sonic Youth's Sonic Youth records.
The CD-only release features a live recording that was billed as 'The Other Side of Sonic Youth'. For this special event the japanese laptop noise monger Masami Akita a.k.a. Merzbow and swedish free jazz saxophonist/reeds player Mats Gustafsson joined the five-piece Sonic Youth. The one hour of improvised music was divided into 5-minute intervals and participants joined and exited during each interval until only Masami Akita was left onstage.
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Black Sabbath followed.
Steve Shelley - Drums, Percussion
Thurston Moore - Guitar
Lee Ranaldo - Guitar, Kraaklebox, Bells
Kim Gordon - Guitar, Trumpet, Voice
Jim O'Rourke - Mix, Guitar, Keyboard, Measuring Tape
Mats Gustafsson - Brass
Merzbow - Laptop
Set list:
Kim / Steve
+ Thurston
+ Lee
+ Jim
+ Mats
+ Masami
- Kim
- Steve
- Thurston
- Lee
- Mats
Masami ends
Recorded live at the Roskilde Festival, the 1st of July 2005 by Barok Films.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.