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oh nice, with a DVD as well - thanks for the news! :-)

Google Translate calls this band the Naked Rally's :-)

I'm guessing it's not going to be a live video recording of the show from beginning to end, if they describe it like this: "The first production edition of the CD also comes with a DVD containing a video work created by Akira Uji, who used to be in charge of visual production for Rally's, using videos taken of the stage performance that day."

Yeah, working my way through Citta '93 right now, absolutely incredible. Great quality.

The recording quality is pretty amazing, but...I really like the ultra-blown-out, Mainliner/High Rise-ish sound of '77 Live, and other Rallizes stuff, both earlier and later, that's more conventionally "psychedelic" doesn't really do it for me in the way their skull-squashing sonic attack material does.

Yeah I can totally get that, this is definitely "cleaner" sounding as compared to '77 Live and older boots. But I kind of like hearing it all a little more clearly and I think this epic "The Last One" still bulldozes my brain and ears.

Just got the notification from Temporal Drift that my Citta '93 vinyl has shipped.

and BAUS '93 up for pre-order from Temporal Drift (vinyl or CD/DVD):

https://lesrallizesdenudes.bandcamp.com/album/baus-93

Citta '93 is pure destruction in sound.

I hope they can improve the sound on the Baus bootleg because it's a pretty stellar show as well

i'm really curious to check out the "mizutani" record; delicate acoustic psych from LRD sounds intriguing

Thanks for the heads up, pre-ordered the vinyl. Would have been annoyed if it had been sold out as I never got an email from them announcing this despite being on their mailing list.

same

leaked. the sound is miles better than the bootleg, this is Citta level of audio quality, I'd say.

Good to hear!

darkness fucking returns!!!!!!

New photo/lyric book just announced. Very expensive, but I couldn't resist:

https://lesrallizesdenudes.bandcamp.com/merch/the-last-one-po-sies-les-rallizes-d-nud-s-book-cd

Temporal Drift has put a few copies of the Romance of the Black Pain otherwise Fallin' Love 12" that sold out immediately when it was put up before up on Bandcamp:

https://lesrallizesdenudes.bandcamp.com/album/romance-of-the-black-pain-otherwise-fallin-love?

Love this pic. He is old, things don't quite fit maybe and yet..

Original photograph of Takashi Mizutani by Takehiko Nakafuji, as featured in Les Rallizes Dénudés CITTA ‘93. pic.twitter.com/pX4b4j4mBn

— Temporal Drift (@Temporal_Drift) May 22, 2024

Another official live album on the way, this time from 1980:

https://lesrallizesdenudes.bandcamp.com/album/yaneura-oct-80

btw, this show (not remastered) is also on disc 3 & 4 of the 6-disc version of the Double Heads bootleg: https://www.discogs.com/release/3070301-Les-Rallizes-D%C3%A9nud%C3%A9s-Double-Heads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYteF-C4S_o

I had never seen this footage from '76 before last night.

that is AWESOME

That's great, thanks!

classic. whenever i see that, i think "how is this real?"

ha it does feel a little bit like a fever dream performance, what with the setting

there's more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XUkzRWei34

oh nice, thanks for that!

(audio continues even though some parts don't have moving image)

New release forthcoming per a Bandcamp message just now:

You've never heard this before.

FRIDAY - 10/25 - 12AM PDT

Plus a photo of some gear and a guitar neck and some mike stands. Rehearsal? Guess we'll see!

Ha, yeah, just saw that tease! Intrigued.

The 1980 release is so good — maybe my fave LRD?

I had never seen this footage from '76 before last night.

okay so it just occurred to me that "night of the assassins" is a cover of quicksilver messenger service's "it's been too long" ... is it just this version? i'm curious if anybody else has picked up on this

i mean obviously the peggy march bass line is a different thing

wait - there was a Citta 93 cassette with entirely different performances??? https://lesrallizesdenudes.bandcamp.com/album/citta-93-board-mix

I don't think it's entirely different performances, I think it's just confusingly worded. It's the same songs as the main Citta '93 release, just pulled from different recording sources and includes a missing ending faded out on the main release.

Unheard 1980 studio session!

In the realm of Les Rallizes Dénudés recordings, finding a completely unheard studio session is a rare and monumental occurrence. While preparing YaneUra Oct. ‘80 for release, such an event occurred—a mysterious tape was unearthed. Within the pile of various archived recordings from the same era was an undated cassette, which contained the unmistakable guitar sounds of frontman Takashi Mizutani and that of Fujio Yamaguchi, the former Murahachibu guitarist whose time with the Rallizes ushered in a new era for the band. It’s a known fact that there are many unofficial Rallizes releases out there, most of them being recordings of their live shows. However this tape, for certain, was something no one had ever heard before. The exact date of this recording is unknown, but according to Kiyohiro Takada (aka Doronco), who was the band’s bass player at the time, “there’s no mistaking that this is from Mars Studio in Kunitachi, from summer 1980, soon after we started recording there.”

MARS STUDIO ~ The First Session ~ is the first-ever release of this rare studio recording by Les Rallizes Dénudés. It begins with “Flame of Ice,” which picks up the tempo and heats up as the song reaches the middle point. Then, coming down like an avalanche are wilder than usual versions of “Reapers of the Night” and “The Night, Assassin’s Night,” followed by “The Last One.” The relaxed yet unrelentingly clashing interplay between the four musicians is far removed from the performance heard on YaneUra Oct. ‘80, which occurred just a few months later. It might be fair to say that this is the most punkish iteration of the Rallizes in the band’s long history. This raw and intense sound goes beyond just being outré for the band, and becomes something that is simply thrilling to hear.

MARS STUDIO ~ The First Session ~ captures a flashpoint in the band’s Fujio-era lineup, which ultimately lasted only half a year or so. At the same time, it is bursting with the bottomless potential that the 1980s Les Rallizes Dénudés possessed deep within.

01 氷の炎 / Flame of Ice (16:07 TRT)
02 夜の収穫者たち / Reapers of the Night (7:10 TRT)
03 夜、暗殺者の夜 / The Night, Assassin's Night (9:20 TRT)
04 The Last One_1980 (11:10 TRT)

https://lesrallizesdenudes.bandcamp.com/album/mars-studio-the-first-session

Very cool!

They only made 30 copies of that cassette for some reason. I got one.

nice one, anagram

Latest release has been pulled. Turns out it was another live set, not a studio recording after all:

The recently announced album MARS STUDIO - The First Session by Les Rallizes Dénudés has been canceled. If you pre-ordered the album in any format from Bandcamp we will issue a full refund in the coming days. Here is the full statement. pic.twitter.com/9tGY5aZF1U

— Temporal Drift (@Temporal_Drift) November 1, 2024

probably this, then

https://www.discogs.com/release/1278901-Les-Rallizes-D%C3%A9nudes-Double-Heads-September

Huh. Well, why not release it anyway?

Yeah, I would still love to hear it!

that note says they still are

Well, sounds like they will be? Oh well, just gotta be patient.

I'd be surprised if the one they just pulled is that Double Heads September one. The track running times are different for one thing. And the label (advised by surviving members) was convinced it was a recording they'd never heard before. I'd expect them to be au fait with previously circulated bootlegs.

a previously unknown show between Sept 11 & Oct 29 would be very nice yes

Octember 32nd

BLOW-OUT Festival, Jigokudani Monkey Park (audience: the monkeys chilling in the hot springs)

1. Death Upon Thing
2. Explosion In The Dark
3. Grab The Sword By The Blade
4. AAAAAAAAARGH!
5. The Last One (eighty minute version)

lol

OMG