― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 24 April 2003 19:07 (twenty years ago) link
― your null fame (yournullfame), Thursday, 24 April 2003 19:25 (twenty years ago) link
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Friday, 25 April 2003 12:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 25 April 2003 12:12 (twenty years ago) link
QBICO Label:
OUT NOW QBICO 09/10
ARTHUR DOYLE/TAKASHI MIZUTANI/SABU TOYOZUMI- Live in Japan, 1997 (QBICO 09/10) 2LP folder cover, Qbico 09: black&red vinyl (very few pink&black or brown vinyl)/Qbico 10: black&yelloworange, liner notes by Ilya Monosov, cover artwork by Qbico, 450 copies only. $25. 26 copies only with hand-made covers, numbered from A to Z, price: $59 each
Arthur Doyle- tenor sax, flute, voice/Takashi Mizutani- electric guitar/SabuToyozumi- drums
Rec. live November 14, 1997 @ Manda-la2, Tokyo, Japan
info at http://qbic.web.planet.it/QBICO%20RECORDS.htm
― b zuraw (bryan zuraw), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 00:49 (twenty years ago) link
― your null fame (yournullfame), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 01:53 (twenty years ago) link
Anyone interested in Japanese psych/scuzz should seek the Gaseneta disc on PSF. 1978-era total punk garbage guitar that influenced High Rise later (who apparently shared some music on a cassette release with Gaseneta). Imagine speed-psych acid mothers minus the reverb, with a lot grottier production and a guy plowing through solos ultra-fast with gloves on...hits the spot for me!
― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 03:20 (twenty years ago) link
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Saturday, 10 May 2003 20:09 (twenty years ago) link
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Saturday, 10 May 2003 20:39 (twenty years ago) link
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Thursday, 15 May 2003 00:06 (twenty years ago) link
got this last night: its pretty good in a sort of blue humans vein (I suppose its more to do with instrumentation and the fact that doyle is there). I'll have to hear this a few more times before i can say more on it.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 15 May 2003 10:32 (twenty years ago) link
The fact that I first thought it was "subtle" only shows the depth of my guitar-noise jadedness. It pretty much singes your eyebrows off. The tempo is slower overall. There is a very cool one-chord blues vamp that sounds a bit like John Lee Hooker on moonshine & ayahuasca, and though it claims to all be from one source, I suspect it may not be. THere are differences in sound, songs fade a bit too slowly, revealing the beginning of the next song to have actually been another one.
Thanks for the report on the Doyle disc Julio.........
Also, Ed is already out of High Or Die. Happy hunting.
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:22 (twenty years ago) link
Wild Party 1975 (quite possibly the most intense guitar noise barrage in human history)Studio & Soundboard 1975-1978France Demo TapeRedBlue
you might want to avoid Mars (or Mass) Demo. Pretty pedestrian...
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 15:19 (twenty years ago) link
maybe i'm missing the point, having only heard '77 live, but i can't help that thinking people can get a bit overexcited when something is a) japanese b) noisy and c) hard to find.
― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 15:30 (twenty years ago) link
unless you start explaining the 'pointlessness' of it all and in what way it 'misreads' psychedelia you will end looking a fule.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 15:35 (twenty years ago) link
― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 15:58 (twenty years ago) link
you are gonna have to give me examples of this. I think what rallizes do (two guitars feeding back and virtually bleeding into each other) with constant bass/drum pattern is something that no band I've heard of sounds like.
what is so 'hackish' abt their 'bluesy' guitar solos? You see, they are lifted from the blues but its not menat to be exactly like blues and so what if the bass parts are lifted from hendrix. The only thing you can say abt bass parts is that they are repeating pattern. Its mixed high up and it heightens the 'body blow' effect but its something to hang onto as they throw these formless guiatr shapes for 10 + minutes, same with the drums, which sound competent to me.
And song isn't their strong point but its a mix of song and jamming. its psych rock so you're gonna get that.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 06:51 (twenty years ago) link
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 15:10 (twenty years ago) link
i think people have overintellectualized responses to this band, i really do. if it was just a tape of your brother-in-law's pick-up band you'd probably toss it in the bin (but discreetly, so as not to offend the brother-in-law). i will, however, give les rallizes denudes another chance just so i'm not guilty of condeming something without trying to understand it first.
― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 16:01 (twenty years ago) link
When its done well, its exceptional.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 16:10 (twenty years ago) link
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:34 (twenty years ago) link
― libbey adams, Friday, 13 June 2003 19:31 (twenty years ago) link
heh.
funny you should mention neil young bcz just on wednesday i got hold of the 'red' and 'green' CDRs and I got reminded of Neil Young (guitars not as distorted as live 77, basically comes down to that). I think the blue cheer connection come from the use of distortion whereas the velvets comes from the use of repeating basslines and drum patterns.
but yeah, its a lot of things.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 13 June 2003 19:40 (twenty years ago) link
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Friday, 27 June 2003 03:36 (twenty years ago) link
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 03:37 (twenty years ago) link
I like Rallizes but think it's decidedly minor work. Fushitsusha or Kosukuya they ain't.
― Kjoerup, Wednesday, 19 November 2003 03:53 (twenty years ago) link
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 04:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 10:19 (twenty years ago) link
I have a legit 'Live 77' cd. I'll be happy to let it go for, oh, $400.
― Kjoerup, Wednesday, 19 November 2003 21:34 (twenty years ago) link
Watch for Les Rallizes Denudes & Yellow - Sessions at Fussa double disc. Also, I wasn't aware until recently that there were 2 Doyle/Mizutani trio shows recorded... Hiroshi Nar has been releasing a ton of stuff, including a live thing with Nishinihon.
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 17:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Soukesian, Monday, 27 March 2006 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsBXLh-v_II&search=rallizes%20denudes
Seems to be some sort of Japanese TV arts show retrospective segment. Any Japanese speakers out there able to clue us in on who is being interviewed and what they have to say?
― Soukesian (Soukesian), Friday, 16 June 2006 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link
anger
― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 16 June 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Dug out 77 live for the first time in a while here. Yup, still great.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 September 2009 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
milton's link above is dead--i wonder what it was that got him angry?
― ian, Monday, 7 September 2009 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link
probably typical VT price gouging and/or hyperbole.
― sleeve, Monday, 7 September 2009 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I should spend some time with 77 live today.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 7 September 2009 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
perversely my favourite rallizes song is the acoustic kioku ha toi which i find myself humming on the regular. Tho sometimes Enter the Mirror, the Last One or Night of the Assassins takes its place.
― BIG jock KNEW aka the steindriver (jim), Monday, 7 September 2009 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
In the past month I realized LRD are one of the best bands I've ever heard, just from the '77 Live album, which gets ten times better each time I hear it (especially on drugs). They have a few other releases floatin around too, like Yoda Go-A-Go-Go, which kicks fucking ass!!
― falc0n2600, Monday, 7 September 2009 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Still one of my all-time favorites
― Soukesian, Monday, 7 September 2009 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Live 77 is indeed a classic. A pity that none of their other releases matches it.
― Duke, Monday, 7 September 2009 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Here's a quick blast of that, from youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HidM7vrL37E
― Soukesian, Monday, 7 September 2009 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
At least I'm pretty certain it's from that disc, cut to film for wherever. Like to think it gives a feel for what it might have been like to be upfront. But LOUD LOUD LOUD and endless.
― Soukesian, Monday, 7 September 2009 22:53 (fourteen years ago) link
great band
― Lord Crutsos Omicron (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 7 September 2009 22:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I notice from this month's Wire that Phoenix records (whoever they may be) have (re)issued 'digitally remastered' editions of "Heavier Than A Death In The Family" and "Blind Baby Has Its Mother's Eyes". Limited to 1000 CDs each, and LPs are apparently forthcoming:
http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/shop/search.php?search=Les+Rallizes+Denudes
― Duke, Friday, 16 July 2010 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link
My copy of Heavier Than A Death In The Family doesn't play on any CD player known to man, so beware...
― A prog venn diagram for you to think about (Matt #2), Friday, 16 July 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Phoenix = Radioactive Records
So I wouldn't believe that it's really remastered in any significant way.
― Pants Perdu (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 17 July 2010 09:09 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Sunday, 12 November 2023 14:14 (five months ago) link
same
― StanM, Sunday, 12 November 2023 17:49 (five months ago) link
leaked. the sound is miles better than the bootleg, this is Citta level of audio quality, I'd say.
― StanM, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 16:46 (five months ago) link
Good to hear!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 17:20 (five months ago) link
darkness fucking returns!!!!!!
― ivy., Friday, 24 November 2023 23:12 (four months ago) link
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
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Monday, 5 February 2024 18:43 (two months ago) link
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?
― bulb after bulb, Friday, 1 March 2024 13:04 (one month ago) link