Merzbow & Oren Ambarchi – Cat's Squirrel [CD] Extreme / Noise / Free Sound Nearly all of the tracks

Nearly all of the tracks have hand percussion in varying tempos and intensities and at least 1/2 make use of electronic noise surges

Maitra performed in ensembles led by Ravi Shankar

sampler & drum machine

electric pickup

Amazonia Dreaming (1987)

Merzbow & Oren Ambarchi – Cat's Squirrel [CD] Extreme / Noise / Free Sound Nearly all of the tracks"Cat's Squirrel is a live recording of Masami Akita & Oren Ambarchi's performance in Sydney, Australia in May 2012. Although Akita & Ambarchi have known one another since 1993 & performed together as part of larger ensembles, this was their first performance as a duo. Together they create a massive wall of sound that moves from the cavernous to the blisteringly psychedelic, laying down shifting low end structures over which pointillist details