This article refers to a musical group. For Maldoror, the book, please refer to: Les Chants de Maldoror

Les Chants de Maldoror

Les Chants de Maldoror is a poetic novel consisting of six cantos. It was written between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de Lautréamont, the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse...

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Maldoror is a music project consisting of Mike Patton

Mike Patton

Michael Allan "Mike" Patton is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor, best known as the lead singer of the metal/experimental rock band Faith No More. He has also sung for Mr...

 and Masami Akita

Merzbow

is the main recording name of the Japanese noise musician , born in 1956. Since 1979 he has released in excess of 350 recordings.The name "Merzbow" comes from German artist Kurt Schwitters' artwork, "Merzbau”. This was chosen to reflect Akita's dada influence and junk art aesthetic...

, also known as Merzbow. The name is derived from a nineteenth century novel entitled Les Chants de Maldoror

Les Chants de Maldoror

Les Chants de Maldoror is a poetic novel consisting of six cantos. It was written between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de Lautréamont, the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse...

by the Comte de Lautréamont

Comte de Lautréamont

Comte de Lautréamont was the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse , an Uruguayan-born French poet....

, the pseudonym of the writer Isidore Lucien Ducasse.

The project formed when Patton was on tour in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 with his band Faith No More

Faith No More

Faith No More is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed originally as Faith No Man in 1981 by bassist Billy Gould, keyboardist Wade Worthington, vocalist Michael Morris and drummer Mike Bordin. A year later when Worthington was replaced by keyboardist Roddy Bottum, and Mike...

. At the time he had developed an interest in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese noise

Noise music

Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...

 artist Merzbow. Patton made contact with Akita, and the two performed several concerts of improvised noise music around Australia. In 1997 Patton and Akita recorded material together in Tokyo

Tokyo

, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

, which was released as She

She (Maldoror album)

She is the only release by the Masami Akita and Mike Patton collaboration Maldoror. The album was released in CD format.-Track listing:#"Butterfly Kiss" - 0:30#"Twitch Of The Death Nerve" - 2:17#"Homunculus" - 3:52#"Boutique Of 7 Taboos" - 1:04...

on the Ipecac Recordings

Ipecac Recordings

Ipecac Recordings is an independent record label based in California. It was founded on April 1, 1999 by Greg Werckman and Mike Patton Ipecac Recordings is an independent record label based in California. It was founded on April 1, 1999 by Greg Werckman (ex-label manager of Alternative Tentacles,...

 label in 1999.

Further use of the name "Maldoror" has been numerously involved with the "apocalyptic folk" band Current 93

Current 93

Current 93 is an eclectic British experimental music group, working since the early 1980s in folk-based musical forms. The band was founded in 1982 by David Tibet .-Background:Tibet has been the only constant in the group, though Steven Stapleton has appeared on...

, the British experimental band Coil

Coil (band)

Coil were an English cross-genre, experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as "Jhonn Balance"—and his partner Peter Christopherson, aka "Sleazy". The duo worked together on a series of releases before Balance chose the name Coil, which he claimed to be...

 and the Italian avant-garde

Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....

 metal band Thee Maldoror Kollective.

Recently, in 2008, the Portuguese avant-garde rock band Mão Morta

Mão Morta

Mão Morta is a Portuguese avant-garde rock band that started its activities in 1985 in Braga. The group's name means "dead hand", based on a traditional Portuguese nursery rhyme. They are generally considered to be one of the most important bands in the Portuguese rock scene...

 edited the live album Maldoror.

The life and work of Isidore Lucien Ducasse

Comte de Lautréamont

Comte de Lautréamont was the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse , an Uruguayan-born French poet....

 has been celebrated on a CD compilation called "Ducasse" released on Spain's Stereoskop Records.

Discography

• She
  She (Maldoror album)
  She is the only release by the Masami Akita and Mike Patton collaboration Maldoror. The album was released in CD format.-Track listing:#"Butterfly Kiss" - 0:30#"Twitch Of The Death Nerve" - 2:17#"Homunculus" - 3:52#"Boutique Of 7 Taboos" - 1:04...
  
  (Ipecac Recordings
  Ipecac Recordings
  Ipecac Recordings is an independent record label based in California. It was founded on April 1, 1999 by Greg Werckman and Mike Patton Ipecac Recordings is an independent record label based in California. It was founded on April 1, 1999 by Greg Werckman (ex-label manager of Alternative Tentacles,...
  
  , USA, CD, 1999)