Crocidura Dsi Nezumi

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Crocidura Dsi Nezumi (サイゴクヂネズミ) is an album by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow. It is "unplugged noise" made using household objects; violin sounds are made with a violin bow on a plastic cassette case or wood, guitar is a rubber band, trumpet is a toilet paper tube, electrical sounds are made with metal. Environmental percussion is the floor, gas stove, the spring of a table lamp, etc. Titles are taken from the Latin names of the Japanese White-toothed Shrew, Japanese stoat, and Japanese weasel.

It was included in the Merzbox with a bonus track.

Track listing

Side A

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Mustela Erminea Nippon" (ヤマイタチ)	23:50

Side B

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Mustela Sixasa Namiyei" (コエゾイタチ)	23:00

Personnel

• Masami Akita – environmental percussion, elektric kokyu, symbal, yokobue, rubber bass, body percussion

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Quantity	Catalog
United States	1988	Banned Production	C46	n/a	BP-27
Japan		ZSF Produkt		43	ZSF 203

• The Banned Production edition comes with a booklet of graphics by Masami Akita.
• The ZSF Produkt edition comes in a hand-numbered and silkscreened insert.