24/09/2025
MERZBOW, IGGOR CAVALERA, and ERALDO BERNOCCHI are announcing their first collaborative album, “Nocturnal Rainforest,” out via PAN on October 3rd.
Merzbow Official / Iggor Cavalera / Eraldo Bernocchi / Eraldo Bernocchi
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Vinyl / Digital is available for pre-order now.
https://p-a-n.bandcamp.com/album/nocturnal-rainforest
The first collaboration between Japanese noise titan Masami Akita, aka Merzbow, iconic Brazilian drummer and producer Iggor Cavalera and forward-thinking Italian guitarist and sound designer Eraldo Bernocchi, ‘Nocturnal Rainforest’ terraforms a sonic landscape that’s almost overpoweringly dense and disorienting, but never aggressive or chaotic. It’s a fully immersive experience that re-contextualizes the trio’s years of work in extreme experimental music by concentrating on texture, atmosphere and sensory overload. The noise itself is used to provoke a refined level of focus; ‘Nocturnal Rainforest’ is mediative in its own way, enveloping listeners with waves of distortion, phantasmic unmetered rhythms and perplexing processed field recordings, but it’s not intended for passive listening. Made using a fusion of bespoke techniques the trio have been developing for decades, it exists in a raw and mystifying liminal zone between the organic realm and the digital world - a place that’s too hauntingly familiar to be ignored.
‘Nocturnal Rainforest’ is a product of each artist’s ongoing musical evolution, powered by extreme music but tempered by deep listening techniques that expect presence rather than dissociation.