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.
邪宗門 (Heresy) - J.A.
Seazer (1972) - Full Album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KGi-KJQkak&index=4&list=RDPG8IL3g8FYI
四十六年前的聲音
就像此刻窗外的雷聲
等不到落雨的鬼魅的雷聲
