Revolving around guitarist and vocalist Mizutani Takashi, Les Rallizes Denudes formed in November of 1967 at Kyoto University, inspired by Exploding Plastic Inevitable-era Velvet Underground as well as the over-amplified rock of Blue Cheer. By 1968 they were gigging live and even began a regular collaborated with an avant-garde theater troupe, which ended the next year because of Les Rallizes's penchant for extreme volumes of sound. Not only did they use massive amounts of feedback at loud volumes, their stage shows used strobe lights, mirror balls and other effects for a live experience that was a total sensory assault.
The group also aligned themselves with radical left-wing politics, performing at the front lines of student demonstrations against Vietnam and even the student occupation of Kyoto University in April of 1969. One original member, Wakabayashi, was involved in the Japanese Red Army hijacking of a flight to North Korean, known as the Yodo-go incident, and because of Mizutani's own connections with the Red Army, the group's gigs became more infrequent and clandestine. The band didn't record much in the studio, and the only music of theirs to come out on vinyl at this time was one side of the double LP compilation Oz Days Live released by Oz Discs in 1973. In fact Les Rallizes kept going throughout the '70s and '80s without releasing a thing, and then suddenly they put out three CDs of archival recordings in 1991, and a video the next year. Of these, the double CD/LP '77 Live highlights them at the top of their form, with 10- to 20-minute tracks of intense guitar feedbacks and drones over repetitive rhythms and heavily distorted vocals.
Almost all of their releases are bootlegs. So go forth and download.
The 77 live 2xCD Is the best place to start. Here it is:
Disc 1:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yejmeiwbdtm
Disc 2:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?5nqwdtgjmb2
Lots more to come.
Sweeeeeet!
Hurrah! Cheers Heinrich
your a god.
Live 77 is the most beautiful recording ever made.
night of the assassin has the BEST BASS RIFF EVER
yep
They borrowed it from Little Peggy March
hi fives heinrich
excellent!!!!!! Heinrich is a legend.
more plzzz?
Les Rallizes Denudes - Wild Trips
5 CD set of various recording from 1976
Part 1:http://rapidshare.com/files/68768597/Les_Rallizes_D_nud_s_-_Wild_Trips.part1.rar
Part 2:http://rapidshare.com/files/68780750/Les_Rallizes_D_nud_s_-_Wild_Trips.part2.rar
Part 3:http://rapidshare.com/files/68792504/Les_Rallizes_D_nud_s_-_Wild_Trips.part3.rar
Part 4:http://rapidshare.com/files/68807144/Les_Rallizes_D_nud_s_-_Wild_Trips.part4.rar
Part 5:http://rapidshare.com/files/68820500/Les_Rallizes_D_nud_s_-_Wild_Trips.part5.rar
Part 6:http://rapidshare.com/files/68832086/Les_Rallizes_D_nud_s_-_Wild_Trips.part6.rar
Part 7:http://rapidshare.com/files/68843113/Les_Rallizes_D_nud_s_-_Wild_Trips.part7.rar
IMO, the live 77 2xCD is as good as it gets - but I have tons of recordings - so anytime you want some more just give the thread a bump.
arghh, those links are a bit screwed up. They end at ''.rar'', obviously.
cool, I still haven't gotten around to downloading the first lot. Will make a bender of it soon though
amazing amazing band
will check out those 76 recordings
For moments like these, I am really hating my internet connection.
thanks brother.
Fucking best band EVER. I swears I was gonna make this thread soon. By far the most frustrating catalogue I've ever delved into but the payoff is often mindblowing.
i've actually been looking for one called 'france demo tape', after a man of respectable taste told me it was his fave... heinrich?
I have the france demo. The sound is a bit more prickly than live 77, and it only has three songs on it - Ice Fire, Memory Is Distant and Story of Love (not on live 77, or anything else I know of)
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ejxzmtczten
I could listen to Ice Fire forever.
Never heard Story Of Love. Thanks man.
soooo much thx, pc!
the first 10 seconds of People Can Choose....
arghghgmmmam###*(((*&^$
the rest is good too
probably obvious, but japrocksampler by julian cope gives a brilliant history / discog etc of les rallizes denudes and all the other bands out of japan at the time. www.japrocksampler.com
yep
amazing
~90% of catalogue now found in one place http://rallizesmusic.blogspot.com/
THAT bass line
night of the assassins is the best ever. (bassline)
my life is over.
yeah totally. internet capped for infinity.
ace!
i'm going to suck uni's bandwidth dry, and not for porn. which is nice.
Can someone please invite me to the rallizesmusic.blogspot.com?
Ditto.
Woah someone invite me to that as well, what information do I need to give?
Seconded, I've only a few albums and would like much much more.
sits in queue.
sits down next to basil
Has anyone thats posted been invited to rallizesmusic.blogspot? I would like to be invited too!
Has all their stuff pretty much been discontinued?
I dunno that it was ever really released. It pops up on Discogs and I've seen stuff listed as 'new' on eBay but that's about it.
After listening to ALL of Wild Trips as commute music in my car, I'm still unconvinced that these guys > Haino/Fushitsusha. Though maybe that's more about Wild Trips than anything else.
Also, that box set does not encourage good driving.
10 cd collection.. available here.
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Correct response :]
Heavier Than A Death In The Family and Blind Baby Has It's Mother's Eyes got released (for the first time) on vinyl a few months back by Phoenix. Death In The Family is one of their best on my opinion. Now if only someone would press the '77 Live recordings I could die happily, basking in the psychedelic haze.
Using my work computer to obtain this. I am so going to be fired.
10 cds worth? Yikes.
I thought 'Heavier Than a Death in the Family' was the same as '77 Live', cooper?
Hmm. I think Heavier Than A Death is a collection of live recordings mostly from '77 and one from '73. The recordings I'm talking about are the ones released as ''Le 12 Mars 1977 a Tachikawa'' in '91 by LRD (one of their only legit releases) and re-released by the French label Over Level in the early 00's.
It's pretty hard getting consistent info about them, I've found a few things I've downloaded have overlapped with the same recordings or have been mislabeled. I nearly convinced this guy who's been collecting LRD boot tapes from Japanese traders for 15 years to dub them all for me a few years back, but then he never wrote back. Total bummer.
Oh, right. I just remember having one and downloading the other and being disappointed that they seemed the same.
Every other ''worthy of cult worship'' group has had a book written about them - someone should do a LRD one and sort out the recordings once and for all. Julian Cope, I'm looking at you.
Heavier Than A Death is an edited version of *Le 12 Mars 1977 a Tachikawa *. I remember listening to Heavier a while back and thinking to myself ''wow, this is amazing. Even better than Live '77''. I eventually realised they were the same recordings.
Cope devotes a chapter to Denudes in Japrocksampler. They really do need a whole book devoted to them. Their involvement in this is just one example of why their sotry needs to be told.
I'll have to listen to Heavier and Live '77 again. Maybe I have a dodgy download of '77.
I found a magazine entirely devoted to them in Japan, had heaps of info. Too bad it was all in characters that I couldn't read. I was tempted to get i anyway, but a definitive book is totally in order.
I'm listening to HTADITF right now. It is so fucking killer, that's all anyone needs to know. I've changed my mind about the book: less information, more fuzz and feedback.