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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!

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.

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.

Wild Party 1975 (quite possibly the most intense guitar noise barrage in human history)
Studio & Soundboard 1975-1978
France Demo Tape
Red
Blue

you might want to avoid Mars (or Mass) Demo. Pretty pedestrian...

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.

unless you start explaining the 'pointlessness' of it all and in what way it 'misreads' psychedelia you will end looking a fule.

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.

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.

When its done well, its exceptional.

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.

I like Rallizes but think it's decidedly minor work. Fushitsusha or Kosukuya they ain't.

I have a legit 'Live 77' cd. I'll be happy to let it go for, oh, $400.

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.

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?

anger

Dug out 77 live for the first time in a while here. Yup, still great.

milton's link above is dead--i wonder what it was that got him angry?

probably typical VT price gouging and/or hyperbole.

I should spend some time with 77 live today.

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.

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!!

Still one of my all-time favorites

Live 77 is indeed a classic. A pity that none of their other releases matches it.

Here's a quick blast of that, from youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HidM7vrL37E

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.

great band

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

My copy of Heavier Than A Death In The Family doesn't play on any CD player known to man, so beware...

Phoenix = Radioactive Records

So I wouldn't believe that it's really remastered in any significant way.

heavier than a death is so fucking great, would love to own an actual copy, even on pheonix/radioactive

my copy of satori is on radioactive

heavier than a death is so fucking great, would love to own an actual copy, even on phoenix/radioactive

this sums it up. might wait for the vinyl

Ah if I'd known it was Radioactive I would've thought twice...can't imagine the vinyl pressings being great either.

Info on this guy : http://www.yogarecords.com/press/radioactive.html

Do those records *need* remastering in any significant way?!

needledropping is a kind of remastering

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?