Les Rallizes Dénudés are one of the great cult bands. They pioneered the Japanese acid-drenched psychedelic sound, adding huge swathes of feedback to their music. You can hear them in the bands that followed, from Fushitsusha to Acid Mothers Temple to Boris. They starting playing together in 1962, although the band itself wasn't formed until '67. They lost their original bassist in 1970, when he hijacked a plane and flew it to North Korea. You don't get much more rock'n'roll than that. This recording of More Deeply Than The Night comes [...]
Been awhile since we featured my all-time fave cult - and I do mean cult - band around here, so let's go go go. This majestic barbed-velvet ballad comes from the recently re-released Cable Hogue soundtrack. Let's hear it for 裸のラリーズ! Play loud if you dare. Les Rallizes Dénudés - But I Was Different
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Wow, for a band that legendarily never really made, like, any "official" albums, certainly no studio ones, we sure have written a lotta reviews of releases by 'em! Not that we're complaining, we'll happily gobble up whatever obscure documents by these gents that reissue labels like Phoenix manage to dig up. After all, these Japanese Seventies psych subversives are one of those bands that
Les Rallizes Dénudés - Great White Wonder This massive live set, from one of the Japanese underground's primary influences, has been issued previously on CD but finds its way back to vinyl for the fist time since these live recordings were laid to tape. The collection documents the feedback architects in fine from 1974-1977, the height of their destructive power. The band was one of the first to translate the power of American rock to their native country and they infuse the power and volume of Blue Cheer with the experimental fortitude [...]
diana baeza Download Alpine Decline "CCTV" (from Visualizations available now from the Alpine Decline) Between atmospheres and the music of the spheres is Alpine Decline, the duo of Jonathan Zeitlin and Pauline Mu, late of Mezzanine Owls, who've been recently globetrotting in China and Tibet. The concept of the mountains, with their yawning crevasses, is uniquely suited to Alpine Decline, with its singing voice railing against the whipping winds of [...]
just because. honking great gobs of skree! Filed under: music stuff , video Tagged: japan , les rallizes denudes , music , music video , night of the assassins , noise
I love doing year end roundup coverage and I'm still waiting to put up the bands to watch list, so I thought we'd highlight some of the great bands we discovered over the past year. Some of them made our 2011 bands to watch list, some of them didn't, some of them aren't even NEW [...]
Shawn Reed's Night People imprint has long been a the go-to resort for consistently amazing weirdo psych balladry,ambiguous and noise-inflicted pop and dark, inverted Americana. Reed's also pretty zoned in on both older Australian proto-punk and recent no-fi pop like Naked On The Vague (who his Wet Hair project just did an almost ridiculously good split with) or The Twerps and Knitted Abyss who've seen release on NP. This is a list in no particular order of his favourite bands and records from this year. Les [...]
Ian suggested I rank the "top ten Japanese albums" for my next installment of the Friday Top Ten franchise. That's right, it's a franchise now. As far as I know you don't have to do more than two or three of something in order to make it a franchise. They call the Twilight movies a franchise and there are only three of them. I've written nearly 200 top ten lists, I'd say that's a god damned franchise, wouldn't you? Anyway, I thought that Ian had a good idea, but there are so many different kinds of Japanese music, [...]
Seventies Japanese dirty hippy festival music with an amazing intro.
Hailing from 1970's psychrock Japan, Les Rallizes Denudés have produced some of the most beautiful folk sounds ever made.
It´s a Wild Weekend once more, with a little something for everyone. The ghost in the iPod lined up some prime HipHop, rock, northern soul, country, Japrock and postpunk for you all this week. Enjoy. Let´s get things going with a track that never fails to improve my mood. A Tribe Called Quest goes on "Award Tour, with Muhammad my man, goin´ each and every place with the mic´ in their hand..." Just go with the flow. And the cheer continues with that magical San Pedro threesome the Minutemen, and [...]
Ian sent me this Gothamist article today along with some choice statistics. "The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is concerned after a report suggests that woman aren't practicing safe sex habits: 'More than 100,000 New York City women engage in anal intercourse each year, according to a new report from the Health Department, and many are not taking the steps needed to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.' While 61% of men who have sex with other men use condoms during anal sex, only 23% of women are." If New York City has about 19 [...]
It started with fifty people lined up around the corner of the building, shuffling through the front door one after the other to the sounds of the Benny Hill theme song. It was a hilarious and fun introduction to what was a crazy-successful National Record Store Day. Within five minutes of opening this morning, our selection of 60 different exclusive, limited-edition LPs, CDs and DVDs was obliterated. And that was in spite of our firm "limit one per customer" rule. What's more, we provided our clientele with more than just new releases. We offered discounts up to half-off everything in [...]
The 1st Generation iPatch had it's detractors, as well... Hey, it's Friday! Most of you are going to go out and get wasted tonight. I'm not! I'm going out for a nice dinner and then probably going to sleep, because I am exhausted. Every news organization is talking about the new Apple product that was released today. The...what's-it-called. iWhat's-it-called. Yeah, that sounds about right. The mini computer that's supposed to save the media industry because you can take it places and read things. What a novel idea. It's like a laptop, only [...]
Les Rallizes Denudes - Untitled (mp3) Les Rallizes Denudes - Enter The Mirror (mp3)
In December of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army marched into China's capital city of Nanking and proceeded to murder 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians and soldiers in the city. The six weeks of carnage would become known as the Rape of Nanking and represented the single worst atrocity during the World War II era in either the European or Pacific theaters of war. The actual military invasion of Nanking was preceded by a tough battle at Shanghai that began in the summer of 1937. Chinese forces there put up surprisingly stiff resistance against the Japanese Army which [...]
Les Rallizes Denudes - Untitled (mp3) Rotary Connection - Burning Of The Midnight Lamp (mp3)
Looking for stocking filler that will satisfy even the most jaded rock fan? Look no further than Julian Cope´s latest book Japrocksampler , out now in paperback from Bloomsbury books. Following in the footsteps of his authoritative and now sadly out of print Krautrocksampler tome, which explored the highs and lows of the German music scene in the late sixties and seventies, Cope now looks eastward and lord, it´s a trip. Thoroughly researched, Japrocksampler first puts the whole shebang in historical perspective before going all out with enthousiastic descriptions of the [...]
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