MERZBOW & PEDRO VIAN - Bardo Thödol LP New Wave experimental yet familiar in its

experimental yet familiar in its intimacy

all varied

With longtime touring bassist Liam Andrews (MY DISCO

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

along with Keris Howard from former Sarah act Brighter on keyboards

MERZBOW & PEDRO VIAN - Bardo Thödol LP New Wave experimental yet familiar in itsIn 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