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Tenjo.Sajiki.Collection.(Shuji.Terayama,.J.A.Seazer,.Kan.Mikami).[Japanese.avant-garde.theater.and.film.music].mp3.rar 10 clicks
Opera.from.the.works.of.Tadanori.Yokoo.by.Toshi.Ichiyanagi.(1969).[Japanese.avant-garde.New.Wave.Fluxus].4CD.mp3.rar 8 clicks
Cochin.moon.(Haruomi.Hosono,.Tadanori.Yokoo,.1978).[Japanese.psychedelia].mp3.rar 7 clicks

В этой коллекции представлены раритетные музыкальные материалы, связанные с японским авангардным театром и кино. Описания только по-английски, пардон. (Ко второму файлу есть русское описание -- смотрите ниже.) Стиль в основном балансирует между психоделическим роком и причудливым фольклором...



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Tenjo Sajiki - Jashumon (PCD-1465 1972)

Tenjo Sajiki - Pastoral To Die In the Country (SWAX057 1974)

Tenjo Sajiki - Throw Away Your Books Rally in the Streets (SWAX062 1970)

Kan Mikami  - Live (IOC1-41010 1972)

J.A. Caesar - Kokkyou Jyunreika (1973)



Details of the audio pack





Artist: Tenjo Sajiki, J.A. Caesar

Title: Throw Away Your Books Rally in the Streets

Label: SHOWBOAT/SKY STATION (JAPAN)

Format: CD

Catalog #: SWAX 062



"Typical of the company's early, crazed style is the recently reissued Throw Away The Books, originally released on their own label in 1970. Confusingly, there is a film soundtrack of the same title, but this is the extremely rare original theatrical version and contains entirely different material. Subtitled 'a high-teen symphony', the performance centers around untrained adolescents reading out their own tortured, angry (and in one case, stuttering) texts and poems. Their stories of family disintegration and mother-hate, dreams and hopes for the future, and love songs to teen murderer Norio Nagayama and Mick Jagger are set to an attractively rough and ready pounding psych-rock soundtrack largely composed by organist Kuni Kawachi. Kawachi had been a member of pioneering Prog group Happenings Four and his brooding organ riffs feature throughout. As well as heavy rockers like the great opening 'Lets Go Ornette', with its ripping fuzz lead, Orff-style choral chants and motorbike effects, Kawachi was also capable of delicate, folkish pieces ideally suited for some of the company's outstanding female vocalists, several of whom developed successful singing careers outside of Tenjo Sajiki. Also of note is a track composed by a young design school dropout, Shinjuku street hippy and winner of a nationwide longhair competition, by the unlikely name of JA Caesar (Tenjo Sajiki also had its own Sinatra and Salvador Dali). Set to a simple handclap rhythm, Caesar's tale of the panhandling life possessed a subtle melodic strength and depth that hinted at the minor keys of traditional folk song. Caesar soon came into his own, composing all the music for Terayama's performances and films for the next decade, and finally inheriting the remnants of the troupe after Terayama's death in 1983." -- Alan Cummings, The Wire.

http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/tenjo.sajiki.html





Artist: Tenjo Sajiki, J.A. Caesar

Title: Den'en Ni Shisu

Label: SHOWBOAT/SKY STATION (JAPAN)

Format: CD

Catalog #: SWAX 057



"Some of the most exciting and evocative music of the time, however, was born out of the avant garde theatre groups that had played such a central role in the 60s ferment. One of the most important was the Tenjo Sajiki Company (its name taken from Marcel Carne's wartime occupation fantasy Les Enfants Du Paradis), formed by poet, film maker, boxing fan and all round agent provocateur, Shuji Terayama. Renowned for Living Theatre-inspired audience participation happenings and extreme street theatre designed to shock the bourgeois, by 1970 the group had already become a haven for runaway teens, and a focus for police investigation. Terayama was canny enough to realize that co-opting their music was an ideal way to hijack adolescent energies, and he consistently used heavy amplified rock to jump-start his chaotic, socially critical acid operas. Heard today, even independent of their lyrical message, they're astonishingly powerful as pieces of music, deploying huge Magma choruses alongside juggernaut organ, guitar, bass, drums and fully out-there vocalizing. -- Alan Cummings, The Wire.

http://www.ear-rational.com/detail.php?id=12052





Artist: Tenjo Sajiki, J.A. Caesar, Kan Mikami

Title: Jashumon

Label: P-Vine

Format: CD

Catalog #: PCD-1465



Beautiful book/CD Japan-only reissue of a particularly inspired side from Tenjo Sajiki, the Japanese avant guerrilla theatre company founded by legendary poet/film maker/counter-cultural provocateur Shuji Terayama that existed contemporaneously to first wave avantists like Flower Travellin’ Band, Keiji Haino’s Lost Aaraaff and Les Rallizes Denudes and that featured dusted acid/rock/folk/avant moves composed and executed by the young wunderkind JA Seazer. Alan Cummings rates this particular one as a real early peak for Seazer’s music. Written for a series of foreign performances in 1971 – Nancy, Rotterdam, Belgrade, Zagreb and other areas of the Balkans – Seazer is rumoured to have composed and recorded all of the music for Jashumon/Heresy in the space of a few hours the night before the troupe left. This particular recording is drawn from the only Japanese performance of the play, January 1972 in Tokyo. Released at the time on a now very rare side by Victor, this massive new edition adds a clutch of new material, including two powerful performances by Kan Mikami. The music is fairly astounding throughout and for the most part defies any attempt at pithy generic description but the piece include flashes of huge, organ-led marches supported by clouds of choral song and throat-shredding death/folk vocals, brief episodes of forlorn traditional breath lost in a thin soup of electronics and gongs, massed acid chants ala Ya Ho Wha 13 and bursts of modal guitar psych. The accompanying book is a beauty, featuring a ton of performance shots and all-Japanese text. Highest recommendation.

http://volcanictongue.com/label.php?lab=P-Vine





Artist: Kan Mikami

Title: Live (1972)

Label: URC

Format: CD

Catalog #: IOC1-41010



A really raspy folk musician like Kazuki Tomokawa (singer in Miike's Izo)



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Kan is also a published poet and novelist, a regular TV presenter (especially on late-night shows), and an occasional film-star. You may have seen him in Nagisa Oshima's POW drama "Merry Christmas, Mr.Lawrence" with David Bowie and Ryuichi Sakamoto.

http://noise.as/main/mikami






Tenjo Sajiki: Shuji Terayama's theatre troupe who apparently also did radio plays

http://www.realtokyo.co.jp/english/book/book-2005.htm

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In 1967, Terayama formed the Tenjo Sajiki theater troupe, whose name comes from the Japanese translation of the 1945 Marcel Carné film "Les Enfants du Paradis", so can be translated as "children of heaven", though it has a meaning similar to the English expression "The Peanut Gallery". The troupe was dedicated to the avant-garde and staged a number of controversial plays tackling social issues from an iconoclastic perspective. Some major plays include "Bluebeard", "Yes", and "The Crime of Fatso Oyama", among others. Also involved with the theater was artist Tadanori Yokoo, who designed many of the advertisement posters for the group. Musically, he worked closely with experimental composer J.A. Seazer and folk musician Mikami Kan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuji_Terayama





Toshi Ichiyanagi - один из самых заметных послевоенных композиторов-авангардистов страны восходящего солнца. Будучи родом из города Кобэ, свои молодые годы он провел в бурлящем жизнью Нью-Йорке, где судьба свела его с Джоном Кейджем и позволила окунуться в атмосферу только зарождающегося в то время движения Флюксус, которое чуть позже громко заявило о себе в Америке, Европе и Японии. Впрочем уже в 1961 году Итиянаги вернулся на родину, где продолжил работать в полную силу, со временем лишь упрочив свою славу гениального экспериментатора и написав изрядное количество опер, симфонических и камерных концертов и пьес, а также множество других произведений. С 1956 по 1963 год он состоял в браке с Йоко Оно.
Одним из самых известных в музыкальном подполье творений Итиянаги стал альбом под названием "Opera From the Works of Tadanori Yokoo by Toshi Ichiyanagi", выпущенный в 1969 году независимым лейблом End Records. Для создания этого инспирированного Флюксусом артефакта Итиянаги объединил свои усилия с художником Таданори Ёкоо и группой The Flowers, возглавляемой Учидой Юйя. Отпечатанная на двух виниловых picture-дисках, дополненных четырехстраничным буклетом с двадцатью четырьмя психоделическими открытками работы Ёкоо, "Opera" явила собой небесное единство прекрасно-безумного звукового содержания и невменяемо-выразительной формы, быстро став своеобразным святым граалем для всех коллекционеров нестандартных музыкальных излишеств. Альбом беззастенчиво погружает слушателя в наркотическое измерение, тщательно, но смело собранное его творцами из психоделических гитарных рок-атак, околоорбитальных дронов, японских любовных баллад, пленочных коллажей, абстрактного электронного аудио-кендо, экстатических стонов гейш и возбужденных криков толпы, неспешных бесед самих музыкантов, старательно расшатанного фолка, записей радиопьес и шума уличного движения, обработанных наждаком отрывков из классики, разухабистых поп-хитов, грохота авиа-бомбежек, звона буддистских колоколов, кваканья лягушачьих концертов, рева реактивных двигателей, шуршания прибоя и звуковых трансмиссий из самого центра вселенной. Все это многообразие мирно умещается в 11 медленно разъедающих мозг композиций длительностью от двух до двадцати минут, и каждый из этих фрагментов можно слушать как самостоятельное мини-произведение, однако как маленькие трансформеры, объединившись, могут собраться в одного большого супер-робота, так и четыре стороны пластинок, будучи прослушанными в один присест, образуют сверхмощную по психическому эффекту конструкцию. После того как затихает последний трек, чувствуешь себя не столько туристом, вернувшимся из музыкального отпуска, сколько искателем приключений, побывавшим в необычной экспедиции по сказочному антимиру, легендарной одиннадцатой планете нашей системы, постоянно скрытой от земных наблюдателей светом Солнца. Возможно, когда будет изобретен особый препарат, позволяющий расширить сознание астрономов до способности обнаружить и официально признать эту планету, ей будет дано имя Тоси Итиянаги; пока же единственным путем хоть ненадолго попасть туда остается прослушивание "Opera From the Works of Tadanori Yokoo".

(http://community.livejournal.com/pink_yodel/)

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HOSONO & YOKOO Cochin Moon 1978.9.21 King Record Co. lp: SKS-28, cd: KICS 2144 Superb. Way ahead of its time with trance-like synths and exotic world colors. The album is co-credited to famous pop (graphic) artist Tadanori Yokoo, who did the cover, but seemingly neither wrote nor played on it. I was able to get Yokoo-san to autograph my LP cover during a 1991 NYC speaking engagement. He laughed with slight embarrassment that anyone in the US would have a copy (and on vinyl). Ryuichi Sakamoto plays synths also and his playing style is evident. Hideki Matsutake, who would later do the sequencer work for YMO and front the synth-based band, Logic System, programs the sequencer here. A brilliant album. This is the first album that sounds like the Hosono we are used to.