les rallizes denudes rfi

In fact, I recall reading abt the time SY took Descension as the support act and they were apparently heckled. Descension do make that sort of blistering sound.

It's a pity I don't have a CD burner. These MP3 files are stuck in the prison that is my computer hard drive! The only thing that makes me think (if I play this loud enough it might actually damage my speakers).

Theres a new taj mahal travellers reissue as reviewed on the latest wire as well. prob. pick it up.

The sequencing is wrong. Here's the track listing, from rallizes web page:

1. Enter the Mirror 11'30"

2. ???????12'04"

3. ???16'12"

4. ?????11'35"

1. ?????15'32"

2. ???????8'30"

3. The Last One 25'24"

Disk 1: 2nd track is called 'Night of the Assassins' 3. Flames of Ice 4. A memory is far Disk 2: don't have the translation to 1 and 2.

The first 3 tracks on disc 1 is OK (1 and 2 on 'side 1' of the vinyl. Flames of ice on 'side 2' but A memory is far is not the last track on the vinyl. That is the 8:30 secs one on disc 2).

Its a straight swap (since it probably wouldn't fit due to the time considerations). Can you fit 27+ mins onto one side of vinyl?

Also the last (i think) 10 secs of memory is far is missing (just noting this, if you 15.32+11.35 that is slightly more than 27 mins). But i think my MP3 of the 'last one' is 21 mins long whereas I think they have all 25 mins onto vinyl (the bassline is the same 'melody' but it's a slightly different tuning I think, but I'll have to check).

I'm wondering also why didn't they bootleg it onto 2xCDs. maybe vinyl was cheaper...

It's a very good record. and when it's that good things like artwork don't matter. My small speakers connected to my computer cannot do justice to the sound of this band as I play the Mp3s. but my stereo speakers can as I play the vinyl (though it would surely pale in comparison to seeing this stuff live). So I'm glad I got it. Amazing what some of these bands were working at on the other side of the planet (recorded 'le 12 mars 1977 a Tachikawa' as it says on the webpage). It is a psychedelic rock record but the way they go on their 'noise assault' is pretty remarkable. so if you have a shitty computer get hold of it (I had most of these as MP3s but I had to get it).

(if anyone here has it etc etc x 100000000000000)

ah, stephen cooper, where are you? you emailed me and we chatted for a while and now you're gone 4evah!

there are a couple of things labelled variously "mass studio demo" or "mars studio demo" that are somewhat different - one features two versions of "romance of black grief" (i think) that are surprisingly subtle and have some nice tape-delay messing about. the other (september 9th, 1980) is atypical rallizes stuff with some noisy guitar.

the "red" cdr is pretty good, too, but as with all rallizes stuff they generally just did the same batch of songs again and again.

slsk!

thanks, your null fame; btw, are you on slsk? cos i'm d/ling rallizes stuff from someone whose user name isn't all that far from yours.

Eclipse [Iskra 001]
Axis Another Revolvable Thing 1 [Offbeat ORLP-1005]
Axis Another Revolvable Thing 2 [Offbeat ORLP-1009]

- Holly

1. Strong Out Deeper Than the Night (no, it is not supposed to be "strung")
2. Reapers of the Night

yeah if anyone has this stuff and is up for tape trading. gimme gimme email.

They are the japanese grateful dead but like better than that. hopefully some shit will appear some day.

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/Sabu
Toyozumi- drums

Rec. live November 14, 1997 @ Manda-la2, Tokyo, Japan

info at http://qbic.web.planet.it/QBICO%20RECORDS.htm

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

also didn't realise that Phoenix = Radioactive. if so, i wld say they've improved the quality of their product - i've got their reish of the Improvisation Sep. 1975 alb by Ichiyanagi/Kosugi/Ranta and it looks & sounds great.

man fuck James Plummer and whatever scam label he's running now.

plz read that link above if any of y'all are seriously considering buying these.

bought dreaded phoenix copies of heavier than a death in the family and blind baby has its mother's eyes today, with significant regret. but there is no way that i'm otherwise gonna get my hands on "real copies," and no way that anyone's making significant scratch off limited runs of obscure shit like this, nice vinyl and decent packaging at high-but-not-obscene prices. it's not undercutting any legit market that i can see; alls it's doing is removing some of the geek cache associated with the rarity. and for me, it's functionally valid. i mean like i have all these tunes on my ipod, but they don't fucking work there. i basically only use my ipod for shuffling and to get familiar with poppy new stuff. i don't want some blone out 20-minute drug drone reverb epic to come on when i'm biking to work. it's unsuitable. i want to listen to this shit when i'm bonding w/ the couch and reading comix in ur wee wee hours, and that's the point at which i'm spinning vinyl. vinyl is appropriate in this case wr2 my ancient mariner lifestyle patterning.

and i'm just making excuses, i know, but i don't see what the real harm is. like same with FTB's satori. it sucks that my radioactive copy is pirate bullshit, but it was fucking hard to find otherwise. i can't imagine that anyone got rich off jacking it, but lots of people got turned on, and that's all to the good, afaic. still thinking of picking up that german oak.

"people can choose" atm, !!!

still thinking of picking up that german oak.

Read this as "Listening to rallizes has made me so strong, I think I might pick up that tree over there!"

it's true, i did. my palms are now all sticky with the teutonic sap.

I need to mention that there have been a number of issues/re-issues of Les Rallizes Denudes stuff on the rather amazing Univive label. These are either newly discovered tapes or nicely cleaned up. They're really expensive multi-disc jobs w/ nice packaging & the whole works. They're also floating around on the p2p sites. Rumor has it that Mizutani may be involved in some way with this label, at the very least bestowing at least somewhat legit status on them. I understand that they are CDs, not CDRs. Some titles:

Mars Studio 1980

Laid Down '76

Double Heads

Black Rainbow

Double Heads 6CD Limited edition

Laid Down'76 again

One More Night Tripper

Cradle Saloon78

Great White Wonder

Wild Trips

Wild Trip In the West

I would also like to amend my earlier comments on my olde screen name re. the most intense guitar freakblast. It is in fact France Demo Tape, not Wild Party 1975. Let me just say: Holy f#%king shit!! My joy at having discovered this gem is somewhat dimmed by the realization that my quest for the ultimate gnarly skronkblast tsunami had perhaps ended. It grabs your head and makes a brain smoothie. Its a paint-peeling, wallpaper-yellowing, houseplant-killing, pet-epilepsy-inducing bundle of joy. If it were to take human form, just one of its sperm could wipe a badger's ass with Chuck Norris's nutsack. It could wad Chuck Norris into a ball & shoot him into low orbit with a slingshot fashioned from ox femurs & wolverine hymen.

@contenderizer: Very few of the Rallizes records were ever released "officially" in the first place. One discog I looked at listed only Live '77, their side of Oz Days, and the 7"EP as being official. That's 3 out of a zillion CDs & LPs that are in circulation! I'm not sure how accurate that is, whether "official" means self-released or what. I'm just pretty excited to have some of them, myself... :-)

also recommend Tachikawa December 17th 1976. Not sure what label its on. Good show, good sound.

Very few of the Rallizes records were ever released "officially" in the first place. One discog I looked at listed only Live '77, their side of Oz Days, and the 7"EP as being official. [...] I'm just pretty excited to have some of them, myself... :-)

yeah, that's how i feel. there's clearly a demand, so someone might as well meet it. hell, i've read that only live 77 and the single are really/truly official. who knows?

will definitely try & DL the france demo you mention. haven't heard it, sounds amazing.

i didn't 'rallizes' before that improvspirit was john b from oz days gone by...

any clues where i might find a dload of the france demo?

I think buying these versions of Les Rallizes stuff is not too objectionable. Pretty much the entire Rallizes catalog is bootleg and it was tolerated even before the digital file swapping era. On the other hand, stuff like the Flower Travellin' Band material being bootlegged/pirated is really bad news. Phoenix seems to be taking some of their cues from the Japrocksampler material. A few years after Krautrocksampler a lot of legit reissues of rare German records started showing up on various labels, to everyone's benefit. Would there have been the Kraftwerk re-masters or the Neu! box set without the interest generated by this book and other artists and writers turning people on to the stuff at the same time? I sincerely doubt it. One of the worst consequences of pirate operations like Phoenix is that they basically destroy any chance of a legit, licensed, decent-sounding official reissue by sucking up all the demand with their BS needledrop bootlegs. I'm appalled that Forced Exposure carries Phoenix's stuff. Anyone ever inquire about that? Sorry for the derail, this has been on my mind a lot lately...

"i can't imagine that anyone got rich off jacking it"

the guy sells to distros and stores ALL OVER THE WORLD. he's making money. i actually did bring this up to someone at FE. cuz i reviewed the search party album in my column and told people NOT to buy the cd but instead download it illegally until someone put out a legit one. i didn't get the cd from them, but they sell it. same guy who does radioactive/fallout has the xian psych label. i wish that FE would stop selling that stuff, but what am i gonna do.

hell maybe this is legit. never knew it existed. don't know the label either.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001M2IXAO/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B000009GPX&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0TES9WCSCK40ZQBJVRDZ

i want that german oak album too. will not buy it if its that scummy guy's boot. would pay extra money for fancy legit vinyl.

I think buying these versions of Les Rallizes stuff is not too objectionable.

I object to the fact that one of the CDs I bought is a dud, how much extra does it cost this motherfucker to use a decent pressing plant ffs? So are the vinyl versions decent quality pressings then?

Merry-Go-Round Records (a division of S. Korea's Beatball Record) reissue of Montgomery Chapel is legit. mini-LP gatefold, repro'd liner notes, i don't know of any other. such an awesome album. holier-than-thou squares not taking drugs to make music for others to take drugs to.

in their first incarnation, Heavy... and Blind Baby... were already shameless boots, even if the pressed CDs gave them an air of legitimacy. so i wouldn't lose sleep over it.

Forced Exposure also carried the much-loathed Monk & Doxy labels.. Monk is expensive 'bootlegs' of old-time material without any liner notes & ugly packaging; doxy is more just straight bootlegs of stuff like hank williams & lightnin hopkins rarities. ugh.

tbh, if it were up to me i would not really even want to carry a lot of the phoenix stuff at the store, but we've had ppl coming in for weeks asking if we were gonna get those denudes rekkerds..

One of the worst consequences of pirate operations like Phoenix is that they basically destroy any chance of a legit, licensed, decent-sounding official reissue by sucking up all the demand with their BS needledrop bootlegs. I'm appalled that Forced Exposure carries Phoenix's stuff. Anyone ever inquire about that? Sorry for the derail, this has been on my mind a lot lately...

― FRESH MEAT (MFB), Friday, September 3, 2010 6:46 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

i see yr point, but don't know that this is true in the case of FTB. can't imagine that he sold more than a few thousand copies of that thing internationally. if there was ever enough interest to justify a legit reissue, it still exists. hell, i'd buy it again just to get right with god, and i imagine a lot of the people who bought radioactive/phoenix copies (hardcore music geeks, all of us, i guarantee) would do the same.

both the FTB and rallizes LPs sound excellent, imo. packaging sucks, but i have no problem with the sound or the pressing quality.

a lot of the time, it seems to me, a steady stream of bootlegs aimed at geeks does more to build up and maintain interest than it does to diminish it. but who knows...

dude, selling "a few thousand copies" of a CD that retails for $17 (more in the case of the LPs) with no royalty payments or label hassles equals more money that most people on this board make in a month. and the guy has like 40 bootlegs out under the new label name! want a straight up needledrop of Silver Apples? every release of his that gets purchased funds more blatant thievery.

http://www.forcedexposure.com/labels/phoenix.records.uk.html

Phoenix put out a copy of the Fraction album (twice according to discogs). And I know that Mexican Summer is putting it out as well, and they claim this: "At long last, the FIRST fully authorized reissue of the psychedelic hard rock private press to end them all." And they also have a Bobb Trimble single as well. Are they somehow involved with this Phoenix label at all? Or am I way off base here

i'll bow out here cuz i don't want to arouse any more ire. wasn't trying to defend the radioactive/phoenix dude(s) on any level. if anyone wants to license and press up legit copies of FTB's satori, i will pay good money for one.

@ Ward: Its all over Soulseek. Or so I've heard... ;-)

i don't want some blone out 20-minute drug drone reverb epic to come on when i'm biking to work. it's unsuitable.

I'm sure Mizutani would sympathise with this.

Sure he's also laughing in his bunker, somewhere, on how this stuff has gone. While others release every gig and note he's not even bothering and then you read news of a 'release'. Think a quid is too much to spend.

French Demo tape...is ok, I guess, never made a huge impression but I'll re-listen - only ever return to Live '77 and a gig from about '93 or so and a couple of other things.

live 77 is one of the greatest rock records, no challop

like raw power, neu! 75, second edition, evol great

saw the ethan mousike doc last night (in a theater!), it totally rules, just heady washes of guitar and long shots of blackness (rallizes shows were apparently lit by flashbulbs)

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

would like to see that doc. is it coming out on DVD or anything?

That is a fantastic clip! I love the particularly thick, mean sound of it.

Had heard bad things about this doc, but of course I have to see it anyway.

Thanks for the clip - would be great to see it in the cinema. Preferably IMAX.

i mean the documentary is just like listening to a live bootleg but there's someone ineptly filming the event

total magic

Today My Life Changed (RFI: Rallizes Denudes)

Lol, linked to that cracking youtube on another thread -- ilx has too many Rallizes thread (or not enough, depending on your POV)

Saw someone posting a few gigs from the 80s on youtube a few weeks ago, its in colour and takes away the mystique, but it sounds quite good.

Rallizes played some shows w/avant-garde theatre groups headed by Shuji Terayama so the punishing volumes and strobe lighting in that setting were (I guess) meant to heighten the tension.

"i can't imagine that anyone got rich off jacking it"

new the table is the table sn

Man, I was at that documentary screening too, at the Spectacle - I didn't enjoy it but I guess I just don't enjoy the whole lot of amateur-shot concert footage documentaries. I went in to it thinking there'd be more of a narrative structure. Am definitely humming the bass line of night of the assassin everywhere tho.

Glad to know I'm not the only one that does that.

3-way tie between that, Flames of Ice and The Last One.

aww, they are fans of H!tler ;-)

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

^ Trying to think what Rallizes song the opening of The Everly Brothers' version of Love Hurts reminds me off.

Its probably Night of the Assassins but I swear there is something else.

Epic article on the Rallizes myth:

http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/les-rallizes-denudes-feature

Despite stints in studios and alleged talks with Richard Branson and Virgin Records, Les Rallizes Dénudés never issued any official material until 1991.

lol #1

took me years to discover the source of that bass line on assassins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Will_Follow_Him#Cover_versions

also lifted by amon duul ii on the only memorable part of carnival in babylon

epic article contains actually zero information about band lol

no lime - I know of that source for the bassline. The interesting thing about rallizes which not really many people acknowledge is how much in love with 50s rock n' roll they were (everyone thinks the starting point for this stuff is a mix of Blue Cheer and Doors amped up). That guitar at the beginning of the Everly's cover is pure rallizes.

Its a terrible piece, the worse was the speculation on Haino and Mizutani at the end. The article by Cummings from '99 (and various reviews) still is the best piece I've seen on this stuff. Hilarious (and not too surprising) that he hates that book by Julian Cope.

Cummings should not be too harsh on it, he has always struck me as being v very aware of making this stuff into 'esoterica'. A trap this piece falls head into. I'd love to know what they've 'influenced'.

Not be too harsh on his own writings, that is. I'm sure the Cope book is terrible.

the cope book is terrible, though the list at the end is very valuable

I had a chance to chat with Kawabata briefly at Terrastock 7 about Cope's book and he was diplomatic, but noted that it didn't help when album sleeves were shown of a completely different release from the one he was talking about.

If that piece had been written by an ilxor and/or had not appeared on a corporate website it would no doubt be getting plenty of plaudits. The fact that it contains zero information is kind of the point of the article, isn't it? It's a piece about the mystery, and speculation is fair game, as is characterising Rallizes as esoterica (which is how I've always regarded them).

ha yeah, i didn't think it was a bad article (maybe a little overlong).

i learned a couple of things anyway ... i'm not as steeped in it as others though.

If that piece had been written by an ilxor and/or had not appeared on a corporate website it would no doubt be getting plenty of plaudits.

What does where the article has appeared or whether the person who wrote it posts on here has to do with anything? Appreciate the posting but it isn't that good.

I don't find 'em that mysterious either. Some people who make things choose not to talk about it, or release that much. And because of the kind of group that was, i.e. one that was ever going to appeal to twenty people, it isn't too surprising that there was a revolving door policy of personnel and that was one of them was possibly then involved in political activity (or terrorism, take your pick) as many Japanese youth (and many from Europe and developed countries) were taking part in action and 'holidaying' in Palestine at that time.

Yeah, thought the writer (who might be an ilxor for all I know) went far too hard on the whole in-pursuit-of-the-mystery angle when in fact there's quite a lot of footage of rallizes out there, not to mention all those hours and hours and hours of bootlegs. It's the kind of thing that only really works when there's some kind of revelation or encounter at the end - and as that was obviously never going to happen, it made the whole thing feel pretty pointless (and the Haino/Mizutani stuff seemed like third hand gossip/speculation that added nothing to the piece).

they are one of the half dozen or so most worthwhile rock ensembles though i have never felt any need to find out about them, to gtranslate .jp pages about them, to verify the apocryphal tales about their involvement with the united red army and so forth

when in fact there's quite a lot of footage of rallizes out there, not to mention all those hours and hours and hours of bootlegs

When I first thought that listening to them might be something to do (as a result of that piece on The Wire) I couldn't find anything whatsoever for a good while. My copy of Live '77 is on this very crappy bit of vinyl with a photocopied photo of Mizutani (I kid you not). It got way better on slsk (bootleg heaven) but now you just hit youtube and there are days of it, along with pretty crappy video footage that would probably get rid of the mystique.

There are some fairly interesting angles (some which would require sometime to research and write-up), and some proper highlights comps to be done. Memory is gone but I had a top [so many versions] of The Last One.

i dunno, they're pretty mysterious to me. i mean, relative to other bands?
you guys will regret it when i'm accepting my best documentary oscar for "searching for mizutani" wherein I track him down and make him perform in dodger stadium.

an empty dodger stadium, I assume

Dodgers will be playing at the Echoplex

There are some fairly interesting angles (some which would require sometime to research and write-up), and some proper highlights comps to be done. Memory is gone but I had a top [so many versions] of The Last One.

― xyzzzz__, Monday, December 8, 2014 2:41 PM (2 days ago)

somebody please do this, would love to know what's worth checking out beyond Live '77 (although I draw the line at buying Phoenix stuff)

A new high profile fan

https://instagram.com/p/5QU5F1JFMr/

https://instagram.com/p/5QVLvWpFNG/

There's a song on the 13.7.74 set (in the Great White Wonder box) called, or mistranslated as "You Were Known" with a lovely cycling chord sequence at a somewhat relaxed tempo that sounds like something Boards Of Canada might use. It's not a million miles from Dayvan Cowboy. Of course our boy proceeds to wring seven shades of glorious atonal sh!t out of it for a good nine minutes.

Note, a recording supposedly bearing the same title on the "Are You Ralliezed?" release and available on YouTube, appears to be another song entirely.

ysi?

not that 74 set, but this 76 set just went up over on big o - http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=2535

yall there is so much lrd of questionable legitimacy on spotify. like, nearly grateful dead level embarrassment of riches

ha really? never even thought to look. wonder who puts that stuff up?

Anyone know if the discs in the Univive boxes have two-second gaps between tracks?

Double Heads Legendary Live is fantastique isn't it, especially the last set (23rd March 1981).

Yeah that's one of the better versions of "Last One"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4jJpRViOQI

what a bootleg

Listening to the France Demos today. It don't get much better than this, folks

About 18 minutes into (Flightless Bird): seems to be VU "New Age" strum & drum cadences w flying saucers, aurora borealis, electric razors having seizures, occasionally.

some kind of howling zombie feedback collision far down the subway tunnel now---flashbacks to The Strain

emerging from tunnel

I didn't know it was released as Flightless Bird actually, just sorta been listening on the random - the echo-y stuff in Enter the Mirror and Flames of Ice, with all the strum & drum...its something very 50s(?) I mean they probably are one of the best psych bands that really have an affinity and channel that specific, late 50s rock & roll sound. There is a slower, more languid pace..

I mean the change of pace from one version of Flames of Ice in Live '77 to this one here.

The stabbing riffs in Flames of Ice are so addictive - totally a late 50s hangover.

Yeah, I hear the 50s rock thing in so many of these bass lines.

How do you guys rate Naked Giza Star? I know it's just a comp but it seems to cover a pretty wide span of time (73 to 87) and, according to Discogs, "originated from a request by a music critic in 2003 for Mizutani to produce a high-quality release from a master source." It always goes (relatively) cheap, I was thinking about grabbing that one to feed this kick I'm on. Lately it's been all about France Demos and the mellow-but-still-blown-out psych folk genius of Deeper Than The Night (which has the best / worst cover art I've ever seen)

I'd been checking occasionally but hadn't seen that France Demo Tapes had had a more accessible release, although it does seem to be another Radioactive / Phoenix related label. That version of The Last One is blasted even by usual Rallizes standards. Isn't one of the other tracks also on Blind Baby, though?

I'll have to check, I'm not sure, haven't heard that one in a long time, and only have a crappy CDR boot of it. But yeah, the version of FDT I have is on Bamboo which iirc is another label by that Phoenix / Radioactive guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS3TzTeqxbc

this one is just so much loose leaked feedback

Naked Giza Sta

Giving it a listen to a few cuts I could find and I'm not sure on it. The fuzz I can always hook it to my veins but not reaching cathedral levels for me..

I've seen a couple of reviews of Naked Diza Star (I'm quite sure it's Diza with a D) complain that the discs are CDRs, so tread carefully.

It is Naked Diza Star, you are correct

Listened to some of it yesterday. Only issue I have is the sequencing, it sorta skips around and spans a lot of time (73 to 87), but there are some pretty great jams on here. Surprised by how much I dug "The Last One" from '87. Also surprised that the audio fidelity of these boots never really improved in like 15 years. Like it's often difficult to tell what 'era' you are listening to based on audio fidelity alone.

But yeah, CDR or no CDR, it's quite a bit of LRD for not much dough, so I may go for it, if only to have some new jams for the car

So has anyone figured out why there's a swastika on the drum set in that one video? Because I love this band but it's been bumming me out since I saw it. And yes, I registered an account just so I could ask this question.

link ?

Sorry, it's from way earlier in the thread: https://youtu.be/sbhtAejVmEg

It's on the kick drum; you can see it pretty clearly at around 5:30. I know Mizutani was involved in radical left politics, but sometimes radical left-wingers become radical right-wingers. I have a feeling something else is going on here, but it just bugs me not to know because I otherwise idolize this band.

probably general cluelessness/shock value thing going on

yeah, my best guess is it's a stooges tribute sort of thing ?

i did like four hours of research this morning and nothing turned up.

sent a few emails, will see if that yields anything but i strongly suspect (and hope) this was an idiosyncratic, very stupid, isolated occurrence.

Thanks for the replies! Yeah, I almost wonder if it was just there from the last act or something. I did a fair amount of research too (limited, of course, by not speaking Japanese), but all references to politics are to the Japanese Red Army Faction, etc. Let me know if you hear anything interesting back from your e-mails!

i did hear back and was tipped to a small group of far-right japanese bands doing ultranationalist / oi type things, none of which i feel like discussing in this thread. that said, i went down a discogs rabbit hole trying to see if there was any crossover between musicians in that scene and mitzutani's band c. '94 or really ever. nothing came up but tbh i didn't try all that hard. if that seems like a promising tip to you, feel free to send me an ilx mail and i can give you names of bands and musicians who were most certainly using nazi iconography / lyrics on purpose. as for me i'm going to move on i guess.

I thought the swastika was used quite a lot for shock value during punk and before. You see it on Siouxdie's armband, Side thirty, Gonn's amp cover et etc.

So would think it tied in with that.

Not sure if Ron Asheton's Nazi clothing fetishism does. That may be his own aesthetic.

my phone autocorrected Siouxsie's armband and Sid's tshirt.
THere were other uses of the symbol at the time too.
& Gonn were 10 years earlier, their Black Out of Gretely is a killer garage track.

Thanks for looking into it -- I'm tempted to do that discogs digging, but I think instead I'll just choose to believe that it was the drummer's misguided Stooges tribute. I just think that if Mizutani had taken a Nazi turn in the '90s, that would have made it into the legend. The fact that he played with Arthur Doyle in '97 also makes it unlikely (though not impossible!) that he believed in Aryan supremacy.

not sure if anything is to be gained by my weighing in here but ime the general Japanese grasp of Naziism and its tenets, both in theory and in practice, is very limited. This stuff is not taught in Japanese schools, the European context and history of it is obscured, and the understanding of the symbolism is vague. The average Japanese person does not really know what a Nazi was (much less a Jew).

That being said, it makes it more likely that that flag was more in the spirit of punk provocateurs, primarily British, that trotted out Nazi imagery for shock value, a detailed discussion of which recently took place here: The Ian Curtis memorial thread. It seems reasonable to assume that Les Rallizes Denudes were not real European Theater WWII buffs and more likely taking cues from a musical culture/iconography with which they were more passingly familiar (Stooges, UK punk, etc.)

It has been announced via the official Rallizes website that Takashi Mizutani died in 2019, which is a very on-brand way of breaking this news:
https://www.lesrallizesdenudes-official.com/

Heaviest RIP. The statement on the website says we can expect archival releases "with far more alive and striking sound than the bootlegs that have been circulating over twenty years"(!)

damn rip

some are saying that Mizutani may not actually be gone ... former band members are claiming they talked to him last year. the plot thickens?

Big if true!

rip...if true, lol

this is all so much in character, happy to remain confused (esp if we get better quality recordings that aren't on that fucking Phoenix guy's pirate label)

https://thequietus.com/articles/30783-makuto-kubota-les-rallizes-denudes-interview

Interview with former bassist Makoto Kabuta, who's overseeing the remastering

that was fabulous, thanks. I hope they sue the shit out of the Radioactive/Phoenix dude.

My copy of '77 Live (retitled Le 12 Mars 1977 à Tachikawa is on the "Over Level" label, which only put out two releases according to Discogs; the other one is another Rallizes bootleg from 1972.

that was fabulous, thanks. I hope they sue the shit out of the Radioactive/Phoenix dude.

does seem like he's probably made a decent chunk of change off of this music. also he is very lame.

amazing interview though! excited to see what comes next... LRD deserves way better than what they've gotten, will be great to have official, well-done versions of these records. will remastering change the entire vibe, though??? (probably not)

lol I hope not!

Decent masters should only enhance the vibe! Had no idea about the Hosono / Sandii & the Sunsetz connection.

Glad I offloaded most of the boots I had (especialy from the aforementioned organisation) but I'm sort of expecting releases to trickle out at most if the family don't get someone experienced to take it on. Great interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_34Jq5pTDSU

Just got round to this now, good interview. Doubt we will learn anything new from the remasters though, but nice to get some info on what that kind of scene might be like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrQL7K-BdOU

fantastic

oh wow - https://pitchfork.com/news/les-rallizes-denudes-officially-release-white-awakening-listen/

Well this'll keep ya going

https://lightintheattic.net/releases/8593-the-oz-tapes

Operating out of a small upstairs space just around the corner from the train station in the Kichijoji neighborhood of Tokyo, OZ was a scruffy, DIY affair that lasted not much more than a year. Between June 1972 to September 1973, the cafe and performance space became the nerve center for the city’s burgeoning underground and counterculture set.

Hadaka No Rallizes, aka Les Rallizes Dénudés, the psychedelic noisemakers originally from Kyoto, was one of the marquee names at OZ. Led by the enigmatic Takashi Mizutani, the now-legendary band was one of the earliest bookings for the venue, and would ultimately close out OZ Last Days, a raucous five-day blowout to celebrate the short but wonderful world of OZ. To commemorate the occasion, recordings made at OZ were released as OZ DAYS LIVE, a private press 2LP set featuring Miyako Ochi, Acid Seven, Masato Minami, Taj Mahal Travellers, and four tracks by the Rallizes—which constituted just a fraction of what had been recorded at the time. For nearly 50 years, these songs remained the only official appearance of the Rallizes on vinyl LP—until now.

With The OZ Tapes, we are finally able to hear the missing pieces. Stored on reels of Scotch analog recording tape, these recordings had laid dormant in storage for almost half a century. The previously unheard material reveals the Rallizes at some of their most unhinged and experimental, as well as moments of delicate tenderness—the two sides of Mizutani that would come to define his band’s legacy. Taken as a whole, The OZ Tapes help to demystify the band’s murky history, yet this vibrant and seemingly relatively innocent era only hints at the explosive, uncharted worlds into which Mizutani would lead the band.

Vinyl only (so far at least), due in November.

so psyched for this. november so far away though...

Ah, very happily there is a full digital edition of this also coming via https://lesrallizesdenudes.bandcamp.com/

Also per John Whitson of Holy Mountain: "There’s also going to be a 3CD with the other groups on the original Oz Days comp plus extra LRD some time next year."

gahhhhhh so cool

Annnnd that digital release of their OZ Tapes material is now live.

https://lesrallizesdenudes.bandcamp.com/album/the-oz-tapes

brb hittin the bong and pressing play

Thanks for the reminder!

Nice! Still excited for the 3xCD thing too.

so stoked for this

it sounds so CLEAR

i'm so happy. dream come true

really sounds good. what a cool band!

BTW looks like there was a listening party-only release just now, as in a party for this release:

https://www.discogs.com/release/22958801-%E8%A3%B8%E3%81%AE%E3%83%A9%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA-Les-Rallizes-D%C3%A9nud%C3%A9s

That was vague: a party for the OZ Tapes release, but now there's this something else out there:

A1 A Shadow On Our Joy = 僕らの喜びに影がさした (Ver.2) 6:44
B1 Wilderness Of False Flowers = 造花の原野 (Ver.2) 18:30

Only 100 copies pressed, sold exclusively at the "Fall and Rise of Les Rallizes Dénudés Vol.2" event.

And it was on Temporal Drift so it's legit, whatever it is.

I really do want to hear this alternate "Wilderness of False Flowers" because it's over twice as long as the version on the new album!

both those tracks will be (are?) on the 3CD (2.2 and 2.3)

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/comp/les-rallizes-denudes-masato-minami-miyako-ochi-acid-seven/oz-days-live-%E2%80%9972%E2%80%93%E2%80%9973-kichijoji-50%E1%B5%97%CA%B0-anniversary-collection/

but that Wilderness Of False Flowers is indeed 3 minutes shorter than on the vinyl EP/single - weird

https://www.lesrallizesdenudes-official.com/en/information/2022-04-06_841/

New feature/interview up at Bandcamp

https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/les-rallizes-denudes-the-oz-tapes-feature

nice to see that

And Light in the Attic has the Oz Days 3xCD up for pre-order, out in October. Looks like a great package:

https://lightintheattic.net/releases/8890-oz-days-live-72-73-kichijoji-the-50th-anniversary-collection

https://lesrallizesdenudes.bandcamp.com/album/les-rallizes-d-nud-s

the 12"" single with the two tracks that will be on the 3CD now available digitally

the mail said this but I don't see that anywhere (or they're gone already) - "Available now—Bandcamp Friday 9/2/22—we have the remaining 150 copies of the 12" for sale. One copy per person/order. $20 + Shipping. Thank you for supporting Temporal Drift and Les Rallizes Dénudés here on Bandcamp.” "

150 copies? Glad to see they are honoring the tradition of making LRD product impossible to procure

that long slow version of Wilderness Of False Flowers is pretty great

saw this posted elsewhere, from the Temporal Drift Facebook page:

"We can now officially share the news that Temporal Drift will be reissuing "67-'69 Studio Et Live," "MIZUTANI / Les Rallizes Dénudés," and "'77 Live" by Les Rallizes Dénudés. Originally released on CD by Rivista Inc. in 1991, these are the only official albums released during the band's lifetime, other than 1973's OZ DAYS LIVE.
Pre-orders for the CD and LP will begin on 9/28. Our reissues will be available throughout the world, other than Japan and Asia.
We can also share that there will be a new 12" single made up of bonus tracks from the CDs.
More details soon..."

Reminds me, you can get the Oz Days digitally here:

https://temporaldrift.bandcamp.com/album/oz-days-live-72-73-kichijoji-the-50th-anniversary-collection

77 Live is a fucking amazing record; I have a really good bootleg version with the title in French, but I will absolutely buy this new version if they've done anything noticeable about cleaning it up. Maybe the others, too.

I feel like they would have said remaster or remix if they did a lot of work on them, reissue feels like... not? Not 100% sure though

I've emailed the label to ask. If I get an answer I'll post it.

We know you've been waiting for the OZ DAYS LIVE Book+3CD set, and we promise it's coming very soon, after a short manufacturing delay! In the meantime, we are very excited to share that the album is now available to stream everywhere. Find it on your preferred platform here: temporaldrift.ffm.to/ozdayslive

Digital downloads are also available from our Bandcamp. Featuring the complete recordings of Les Rallizes Dénudés at OZ, this release features essential and many previously unheard performances by Masato Minami, Miyako Ochi, and Acid Seven.

temporaldrift.bandcamp.com/album/oz-days-live-72-73-kichijoji-the-50th-anniversary-collection

Oh darn, more reissues are live, oh no

https://lesrallizesdenudes.bandcamp.com/album/mizutani-les-rallizes-d-nud-s

https://lesrallizesdenudes.bandcamp.com/album/67-69-studio-et-live

https://lesrallizesdenudes.bandcamp.com/album/77-live

oh no! :-)

All three have this: "features newly remastered audio by former Rallizes member Makoto Kubota"

OK, can an expert here tell me which one of these I should buy if I prefer dreamy, 3rd Velvets album Denudes to explosive 45 minutes of amp destruction Denudes?

lol not Live 77

I'd have to refresh my memory on the other two

Yeah, Live 77 is the tear-your-face-off one. Mizutani is actually mostly acoustic(!), so that's probably what you're looking for. And 67-69 live obviously is gonna be more Sixties-sounding, too.

Thanks! I have CD copies of Mars Studio, Heaver Than A Death In the Family, and Blind Baby, but I seem to recall an LP (boot obviously) that was super jangley and droney and I loved it, but no idea what it was called

How much overlap is there between 77 Live and Heavier Than A Death In the Family?

5 of the 6 Heavier tracks are on 77 Live, where they also sound better + 77 Live has The Last One and 記憶は遠い ("Memory is Distant")
The only Heavier-exclusive track is "People Can Choose" (which is actually Field Of Artificial Flowers and a 1973 recording)

in short: 77 Live > Heavier

Goddammit.

Don’t throw those Les Rallizes Dénudés bootlegs away just yet! Original 1991 CD of “'77 Live”—an incredibly loud disc for its era—vs. the maximized/destroyed 2022 reissue: pic.twitter.com/qCarIw6vRW

— Andy Zax (@andyzax) October 14, 2022

That sucks to see, but as someone who doesn’t have the 1991 CD, I’ll deal. It’s not like I turn to LRD for a fine sounding audiophile experience anyway….

I thought the production trick with all that PSF/High Rise/Keiji Haino stuff that came up in the wake of Rallizes was to wallop everything into the red anyway, all the better to conceal the fact it was probably recorded on a malfunctioning reel-to-reel.

yeah but "into the red" is different in the analog realm vs the digital realm

and too much ruins it either way

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/arts/music/les-rallizes-denudes.html

Acid Seven, a bandleader and prankster who was a regular at Oz, recalled Mizutani interrupting his stoic silence at jam sessions only to utter existentialist riddles. He described Mizutani once taking a drag from his ever-present cigarette and proclaiming, “The smoke coming out of my mouth is extinguishing my ego,” with no further explanation offered.

By being totally uncompromising about the band’s sound, Mizutani effectively exiled himself from the Japanese music industry. Shime Takahashi, who played drums with the Rallizes in the mid-70s, recalled the band once working in a professional studio, only to find that the engineer never pressed record because he thought it was still rehearsing. Mizutani had been playing with the Rallizes for more than 20 years before releasing its three albums in 1991 — two sets of early recordings, and another double-CD live set of the band at its noisiest.

In a series of interviews this summer, Kubota said he had been working for months to sort through Mizutani’s collection, including numerous studio and live recordings.

“Now I have received the material for four full concerts and started working on it,” Kubota said. “It will be monstrous.”

Has anyone seen any news on the reissues? Pitchfork said the CDs would issue on 25 November, but the official website doesn't seem to have that info (it doesn't seem to be a well organised site).

The graphs above are not encouraging...

Bandcamp also says they will be shipping on or around 11/25, so fingers crossed.

Still waiting for my OZ Days Live to ship as well (looks like that was updated to 11/18).

digital releases out on Nov 29th, physical will be shipped in Jan/Feb 2023, I see on Bandcamp.

^ the three ex-bootlegs, that is

They're out - and 77 Live is brickwall central indeed. But so was the bootleg, to be fair.

The other two aren't as bad (first track on 67-69 studio & live is over the top too but the rest is better)

My old copy of ‘77 Live sounds much better than this reissue. (Downloaded WAVs from Bandcamp.) Keeping the earlier version for sure.

same :-(

Eh, I have been looking for a reasonably priced copy of '77 Live for years (certainly not paying the $130 they are currently going for), so I'll just have to deal with one that is slightly inferior.

This is the one to get. Nice packaging, really good sound.

Definitely more affordable! Saw that one at one point, but wasn't sure if it was the same material.

FYI - if you were like me and ordered any of the new CDs from Temporal Drift, the bandcamp page now says they won't be shipped until January 26, 2023

Looks like we got another bonus release:

https://www.discogs.com/release/25401199-Les-Rallizes-D%C3%A9nud%C3%A9s-Romance-Of-The-Black-Pain-Otherwise-Fallin-Love-With

Bonus 12" of material from that couldn't be included on the '67-'69 Studio Et Live and Mizutani / Les Rallizes Dénudés LP reissues.

my vinyl copy of OZ Days finally arrived. sounds fantastic.

Mine arrived a week or two ago - been on a lot & yes it sounds great

Trying again on the right thread this time...

Has anyone else that pre-ordered any of the three LRD CDs from Temporal Drift received a shipping notification or anything? Supposedly these were to be shipped out a couple weeks ago, but I haven't heard or seen anything.

Was gonna ask — I've heard nothing.

Just emailed the label; will post whatever response I get.

Thanks

I ordered the 3LP of 77 Live and it says it's shipping tomorrow so we shall see.

Exciting news—The CD and LP releases of Les Rallizes Dénudés' '67-'69 STUDIO et LIVE, MIZUTANI / Les Rallizes Dénudés, and '77 LIVE are in production and nearly finished. CD-only orders should ship by mid-Feb. Orders w/ LP+CD should begin shipping by late Feb.

— Temporal Drift (@Temporal_Drift) February 1, 2023

Fwiw, just thought to check Temporal Drift's Instagram and they posted 2 days ago that "CD-only orders are shipping now", so hopefully soon.

ha - good timing

I received my CD of Mizutani yesterday with no prior shipping notice.

FYI, I got an email back from the label:

"We are in the process of packing and shipping hundreds of orders right now. Yours will ship on Friday. Tracking will be live once USPS scans the package."

There was a tracking number included. So I expect it'll arrive next week.

The 3LP oclear vinyl pressing of '77 Live is sold out at the Temporal Drift bandcamp but there still appear to be copies of a red & black vinyl pressing available on Light in the Attic.

Hmm, and yet another pressing on red & black "splatter vinyl" available on Third Man Records. This is getting silly.

Yeah, finally got a shipping notice early this morning.

Me too.

So far Mizutani has been the real revelation for me, I'd never heard that one before and all the other bootlegs I'd had were focused on the blown-out guitar cacophony.

Those vinyl only extra tracks from recent reissues getting the digital release today

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

The version of "The Last One" on Mizutani reminded me of Dadamah, which is some of the highest praise I can offer. The acoustic tracks on the first side are shockingly delicate.

Les Rallizes Dénudés just announced CITTA' '93, check it out here: https://lesrallizesdenudes.bandcamp.com/album/citta-93

“We are honored and thrilled to share with you the first-ever release of CITTA’ ‘93 by Les Rallizes Dénudés, the first entirely new album to be released as part of the archival and reissue campaign launched in 2021 in collaboration with The Last One Musique. Containing in its entirety a recording of the band’s legendary 1993 performance at Club Citta in Kawasaki, Japan, CITTA’ ‘93 is a tour de force for this seldom-heard era of the Rallizes, destined to be a future classic alongside their definitive showcase ’77 LIVE.

Pre-orders are now live on our Bandcamp, where a limited edition 3LP Silver Vinyl edition is available, along with 3LP Black Vinyl and 2CD sets. Every vinyl order will be bundled with a newsprint poster featuring an iconic photo of Takashi Mizutani by Takehiko Nakafuji, while supplies last.”

= CD1 and 2 of this 13cd bootleg box from 2011

OK, I admit I kinda want to hear a 39-minute version of "The Last One."

Ordered the silver vinyl, thanks for the heads up!

Swear I still have a burnt CD of that '93 from my days on slsk. It's fantastic if that's the same one and it's available.

xpost: my pleasure! I hope this one isn't brickwalled like the others.

This Citta 93 set is fantastic. I don't have the 13CD bootleg mentioned by StanM above so it was all new to me. The version of The Last One is epic.

So apparently BAUS '93 is coming - this is where CITTA '93 showed up for Japan only before Temporal Drift picked it up for the rest of the world. Rumors are pre-orders coming in November for early 2024 release:

https://www.lesrallizesdenudes-official.com/en/information/2023-09-27_1510/

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

lol Ned

If someone can whip up some appropriate bootleg album art I feel we can create a real prank here.

hey StanM you were right, the Japanese label confirmed it is the 11 Sep 1980 date and will be officially released soon

ok! no previously unknown show then, too bad.

The collection of a typical Les Rallizes Dénudés fan. pic.twitter.com/Ej9gbAaWEa

— Temporal Drift (@Temporal_Drift) June 3, 2024

Around the 63' mark of The Last One from that show, the bassline drops out of the mix suddenly and gives way to an enormous squall of signature Mizutani feedback more rapturous than any I've heard in the LRD catalogue. One of my buddies is friends with a monkey who was at that show. He managed to get a setlist while the band was breaking down their gear and got it signed by Mizutani.

Damn that's one hip monkey.

New '76 show now up for preorder!

https://lesrallizesdenudes.bandcamp.com/album/jittoku-76

Great show - and it sounds a lot better than the old bootlegged version (starting at 51:37 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWJE8RIi_90 )

Love Temporal Drift for doing the lord's work with this stuff!

That sounds really good, even just the 45-second sample. Might even buy the 2CD edition.

Me oh my, I picked up the Azuba Demo Tape '85 for a song the other day and damn does it sound good! Found it used at the record store--moments like this are the idealized fantasy that drove me to get into collecting records a few months ago and which, upon beginning the obsession, I thought would never actually happen.

Mizutani lays off the fuzz on this one for the most part and it really brings out another dimension to their sound. A dimension which, to be sure, is identifiable beneath the torrent of fuzz on other records, but which can stand on its own, too. There's a real swagger to the basslines, a sort of ominous plodding that almost reminds me of a scene from Twin Peaks or some other Lynch work.

Azabu but yes :-)

Whoops, ty

Jittoku '76 is out - tremendously improved over the version that circulated before

"Azuba Demo Tape '85"

Beautiful shit

fwiw just got an email from Temporal Drift that they will have "some very special news to share" tomorrow for Bandcamp Friday. the photo appears to be a t-shirt with the Jittoku '76 cover art. maybe just LRD merch, but I wouldn't mind more material.

Guessing merch but we'll see.

Another "lost album" on the way. Are Temporal Drift starting to scrape the barrel?

https://lesrallizesdenudes.bandcamp.com/album/disque-4-76-studio-et-live

there's only so much available, they can't keep finding unexpected recordings forever

Counterpoint: they might.

dunno, this sample sounds pretty good to me — scrape that barrel!

That's right

Yeah I have no problems with more things surfacing. Why the hell not? It's not like they've even formally released everything that was already released as a bootleg, for instance.