04/09/2024
V.A. - REST IN NOISE in memory of Zev Asher(life is absurd/play rec/china cd 2024)
REST IN NOISE
in memory of Zev Asher
Zev Asher
Torturing Nurse
DRAINAGE
Xu Cheng
Huang Lei
This is a Zev Asher (1963~2013) memorial album.
Zev had been involved in Shanghai's underground noise and social scene since the late 2000s and had made documentary film about them.
He was an friend and inspiration to us beyond words. Eleven years ago he sadly left us due to his illness.
The album contains several recordings from Zev's memorial “Revolutions in Memories - In Memory of Zev Asher” as well as a live recording of his 2008 collaboration with TN.
XC 2024
1 TO LEAVE WITHOUT HAVING TOUCHED ANYTHING*
DRAINAGE: Electronics
2 Life of Z*
Xu Cheng: Electronics
3 Mourning*
Torturing Nurse: Electronics
4 REST IN NOISE*
Torturing Nurse: Electronics & Voice
DRAINAGE: Electronics
Xu Cheng: Voice
Huang Lei: Voice
5 Smile Like Teenage Springtree
Torturing Nurse with Zev Asher
J***y: Guitar
Youki (Xu Cheng): Guitars
ZK: Drums
Jiadie: Voice
Zev Asher: Voice
1～4 * Live recordings from “Revolutions in Memories -
In Memory of Zev Asher” at Trigger Shanghai 10th Aug 2024.
Mixed and mastered by
Xu Cheng 2024.
5 The recording of Torturing Nurse Live at YuYinTang Shanghai 23rd Dec 2007.
Original mastering by J***y, remastered by Xu Cheng 2024.
Original recording released on Lona Records 2008 (locd51).
Revolutions in Memories
— in memory of Zev Asher
Zev Asher was a Canadian experimental musician and documentary film maker. He made documentaries about fringe individuals, musics and subcultures, he lived surrounded by those fringe individuals, he made the music his documentaries were about, and was a paragon of the subcultures he portrayed. He was a man who embodied his art and lived it, for it, and through his cinematic eye gave us three mementos of that life on the outskirts of music, society, art. His work was controversial, he received death threats because of his movie about a cat killer. He played awful sounds. He also recorded those awful sounds with Merzbow, Masonna, half of the Incapacitants, Monde Bruite, Solmania, all of the japanese harsh noise legends of yore. Very few can boast such a record as his.
He was, before and beyond all that, a good friend, one of the few I have been able to truthfully call so, in a sea of parasitical relationships of acquaintance and even worse petty enmity, someone who for years I would constantly reach out for feedback. He taught me a lot, and I forgot a lot of what I learnt, but what remains is the image of a man that I crossed physical paths throughout the years, from the first day I landed in Shanghai to a wintry day in Venice, a man who was increasingly ill, but never stopped documenting, even that very illness that kept him in a hospital in his final days, of which exists a movie we unfortunately won't see tonight.
He was here before everyone even knew about Chinese noise. He made a documentary on it, on Torturing Nurse, that we will screen tonight. He's been gone eleven years now, and there's times I still weep at the loss. I can't write much more. Let the movies we'll see and the ugly sounds we'll play today be the tribute to someone who witnessed the birth of Shanghai's subcultural revolution.
by LxVxT
2024
Life is absurd 2024
PRM038
released September 1, 2024
cover images from the Zev Asher movie "Subcultural Revolution: Shanghai"
designed by Xu Cheng
factory press cd, 200 copies
https://playreclabel.bandcamp.com/album/rest-in-noise-in-memory-of-zev-asher
