Release data: Irezumi – Downfall CD/Lp/Digital Download, Brique Rouge, 2025 Compared to Manuel’s previous recordings, I’d say the outcome of Irezumi’s “Downfall” makes a much heavier and intense listen: it reflects the fractures of a mind in crisis and the…
Release data: Irezumi – Forest Digital Download, Private Release, 2022 Some six years after “Thirty”, French artist Manuel Mesdag brings his audience a full body of work with “Forest”. It’s a one-hour enchanting, warm, and most moody ambient release,…
Release data: Irezumi – Thirty CD-R/DIGITAL DOWNLOAD, Private Release, 2016 Seven years after his impressive debut “Endurance”, the Em-scene sees the return of Paris-based musician Manuel Mesdag, aka Irezumi. “Thirty” –dedicated to his late brother – collects nine most personal…
Release data: Irezumi – Endurance CD, Snowblod, 2008 This album has been on my wish-list for quite some time, as I just knew it would be right up my alley. Irezumi is a project by the young French composer Manuel…