Gintas K - Merzmania [Gk Rec 008]

Put out on the circuit via his very own GK Rec. label is "Merzmania", the latest experimental album outing cooked up by Gintas Kraptavicius a.k.a. Gintas K.. Released on March 30th, 2k26 the Lithuanian porducer x sound artist caters a menu of thirteen new pieces rolled out over a total runtime of 75 minutes on this album, aiming for a fusion of Classical Music-infused techniques and the utter chaos and harsh, abrasive and oftentimes violent approach of Japanoise pioneer and forerunner Merzbow. In this fusion attempt we see Gintas K. bringing forth a combination of extremely fast, highly detailed synth keyboard work which seems to flood the attentive listeners brain with an almost granular flow of a gazillion sonic events per microsecond which are - live and in parallel - treated, transformed altered and further morphed by real time software manipulation with pieces like "Merzmania #2" resembling buzzing swarms of scintillating robotic insects from a sci-fi future accompanied by trembling sub-sonic bass attacks whilst the subsequent "Merzmania #3 Dreaming" caters minimalist digital scrapings and warm tectonic bass rumbles whereas "Merzmania #5 Slow" finally even vaguely resembles minimalist echoes of echoes of echoes of named Classical techniques, albeit in combination with further digital sweeps and scrapings. With pieces like "Merzmania #8 Spare" Gintas K. harks back to an overload of sonic events, yet in a more playful and somewhat unsettling, eerie and otherworldly manner, subsequently followed by "Merzmania #9 Turntable" with another serving of high speed modulated keyboard action before breaking down into glistening brittle and slightly off-kilter UnAmbient structures whereas the similarly named, yet different "Merzmania #11 Turbtxble" enters a realm of hyperactive digital chaos, densely layered piercing frequency shifts and intentional defragmentation just to lay out a few sonic concepts to be found on this highly limited album release. This is ultra Avantgarde music for those in the know.