mishamaeda
This song is a nice version that only exists on this album. It feels good with lively performances of drums and bass.
Favorite track: Vertigo otherwise My Conviction / 眩暈.
KottonKrown
After half a century, it's time to get rid of poor quality bootlegs. I eagerly await the rest of the story.
Favorite track: Vertigo otherwise My Conviction / 眩暈.
vesumbra
White Awakening has been one of my all-time favorite songs for nearly 10 years now, I feel so lucky to get to hear these unearthed recordings.
Favorite track: White Awakening / 白い目覚め.
Lars Gotrich
I don't think we'll ever truly know how Mizutani imagined how his wild-psych-fuzz vision should "officially" sound — that's the mystery of Les Rallizes Dénudés, wrapped in decades of bootlegs and bad MP3 rips. But damn does this set thrill. www.vikingschoice.org/archive/vikings-choice-2022-reissues-renewals-of-spirit/Favorite track: Wilderness of False Flowers / 造花の原野.
* First-ever official worldwide LP release by Les Rallizes Dénudés
* Fully authorized by The Last One Musique
* 2LP in a craft board jacket including a 12-page liner notes book with archival photos
* Notes by Yosuke Kitazawa with an intro from OZ manager Minoru Tezuka
* Remastered from the original analog tapes by Makoto Kubota
Includes unlimited streaming of The OZ Tapes via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Includes unlimited streaming of The OZ Tapes
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
* First-ever official worldwide LP release by Les Rallizes Dénudés
* Fully authorized by The Last One Musique
* 2LP in a craft board jacket including a 12-page liner notes book with archival photos
* Notes by Yosuke Kitazawa with an intro from OZ manager Minoru Tezuka
* Remastered from the original analog tapes by Makoto Kubota
* Bandcamp vinyl sales include an exclusive 4"x6" print of the original photo used for "The OZ Tapes" cover, taken at OZ as the Rallizes performed on stage
*** Bandcamp Edition is sold out. Please order from Light In The Attic or ask your local shop to stock The OZ Tapes.
Includes unlimited streaming of The OZ Tapes
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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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.
* Digital album includes PDF of liner notes booklet.
credits
released April 27, 2022
A1 originally released on OZ DAYS LIVE (OZ Records OZ-1/OZ-2, 1973)
A2, A3, B1 unedited versions of recordings originally released on OZ DAYS LIVE
A4, C1, C2, D1 previously unreleased
Original recordings produced by Minoru Tezuka and OZ Freaks
Recorded by Kiyohiro Takada (Doronco) and Shigeru Sugiyama
Original OZ Days Live layout and design: Tenko@
Original OZ Days Live illustrations: comic jun
Reissue produced and remastered by Makoto Kubota
Reissue co-produced by Yosuke Kitazawa and Patrick McCarthy
Lacquer cutting by Shigeru Buzawa
Reissue design & layout by Henry Owings, Chunklet Graphic Control
Photos by M. Tezuka and OZ Press
Photo retouching by Satomi Sugiyama
Liner notes by Minoru Tezuka; translation by Yosuke Kitazawa
Liner notes by Yosuke Kitazawa; translation by Ryohei Matsunaga
Licensed courtesy of Minoru Tezuka
Thank you:
Takeo Arita, Dr. Seven, Doronco, Tomokazu Hayashi, Lennon Horiuchi, Tami Kawauchi, Aquilha Mochiduki, Ruriko Tsuruta, Yoshiyuki Suzuki, Michino, Makoto Yoshimi, The Last One Musique
Since their inception in Kyoto in 1967, Les Rallizes Dénudés has gained an almost mythical status the world over with their
unrelenting psychedelia and pure sonic assault. Led by the enigmatic Takashi Mizutani, the Rallizes remained an underground cult phenomenon throughout their three decade existence, and beyond....more
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