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!

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.