Cuts (album)

ReleasedFebruary 7, 2013 (2013-02-07)

RecordedApril 14, 2012

StudioMetropolis Studio, Budapest

GenreNoise, free improvisation

Cuts
Studio album by Merzbow, Mats Gustafsson, Balázs Pándi
Released	February 7, 2013 (2013-02-07)
Recorded	April 14, 2012
Studio	Metropolis Studio, Budapest
Genre	Noise, free improvisation
Length	71:48
Label	RareNoise
Merzbow chronology
Duo (2013) Cuts (2013) Cat's Squirrel (2013)
Mats Gustafsson chronology
Sin Gas (2013) Cuts (2013) Shift (2013)
Balázs Pándi chronology
Katowice (2012) Cuts (2013) One (2013)

Cuts is collaborative studio album by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow, Hungarian drummer Balázs Pándi, and Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson. It was recorded during a stop on the trio's East European tour in April 2012.

This album was followed up in January 2015 by Live in Tabačka 13/04/12, which was recorded live the day before Cuts in Slovakia. (Limited edition of 400 Lps)

Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper, a studio album with the addition of Thurston Moore, was released in 2015.

Cuts Up Cuts Out, a live album was recorded in 2016 with Thurston Moore was released in March 2018.

Cuts Open, a live album recorded in 2018 was released in March 2020.

The Cuts album was recorded in several improvised sessions at Metropolis Studio in Budapest, Hungary. Masami Akita then edited and mixed it at his Munemihouse studio in Tokyo, he didn't change the structure much except for moving a sax part.^[2] Pándi mixed his drums in Budapest.^[3] The track titles come from Leif Elggren's book Something like seeing in the dark.