Les Rallizes Denudes DVD coming out!!!
 

Modern Music is taking orders for a new Rallizes DVD.
Site is all in Japanese, dammit.

http://www.psfmm.com/product/10412

1982, Keio University. 7,200 yen.

Yeah, pricey, but not as pricey as one of their albums by a long shot!
I really want to see this!!

Awsome, I occasionly see rallizes dvds on sale at ebay but I know most of them are bootleg copies, I would really like to see this too, especially since the 80's is considered their best era, and mizutani is so cool looking. Did you check out those videos of them, I told you about on youtube?

Yeah! Amazing.
That early 80s stuff is great, when they had the two guitars.

I'll put up the links to videos in case anyone else wants to check them out.

live 1976 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hWLzAUeTvA

live 1994 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW5FxIl8X_I

japanes TV spot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsBXLh-v_II

all these videos contain the same song, night of the assassin, I think?

for those who did not know and could be interested:

the label that released "Live in Tachikawa - 1977" has apparently just released a new recording by them, "Live 1972":



as far as i can see, it is currently available at various places... i just ordered a copy yesterday.

hmm, also, i see volcanic tongue has currently two different DVDs of the Rallizes Denudes:


1994 Live Final Era:





Metal Machine Music '82:




the second one is apparently the one Savage Clone mentioned in the first post...

Ahha...but they are soooo pricey at Volcanic Tongue. Nearly £50 or something. I reckon I'd pay maybe £30 for one...it's a Japanese dvd after all and they tend to be pricey. But 7200yen is pricey even for Japan.

Yep, saw that but haven't got it yet. Let us know what it's like if you would. I just got a copy of Live in Tachikawa '77 from ebay the other day...haven't actually got it in my hands yet though :(

oh yes, 50 british pounds is a lot: i did not really notice because i am not ready to buy those now and prices in british pounds seem cheaper than they really are to me, because i am used to euros...


i have "live in tachikawa '77" and love it... yes, i can tell you how "live 72" is like when i receive it...

great, i'm interested too. i have that -77 thing and it's one of the greatest records ever, good sounds on that edition too.

Yes...I just got back from not being in the house and 1977 Tachikawa was waiting on the doormat for me!

Come to think of it, has anyone got that Les Rallizes DVD(r?) that is always on ebay. The Ethanmoushike co ltd one? This one in fact:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Les-Rallizes-D...18005 7020382

Also, has anyone got any of the 10cdr boxsets that do the rounds on ebay?

I haven't, but I have purchased a High Rise DVD-R (they are DVD-R) from the guy that sells them, and I wasn't particluarly impressed. Mind you, mine was very clearly a bootleg filming - terrible picture quality, awful sound - whereas that one you're referring to is a boot of an official video, I think.

i just got this yesterday. it is a very low-fi tape dropoutathon of utter brilliance. hoorah!

Some words to go with the pictures that o o o posted (also taken from volcanic tongue):


1994 Live Final Era:

Unbelievable package from the Japanese label that have taken on the job of making available definitive versions of all sorts of juicy Rallizes-related rarities. This is one of two of the first ever Rallizes DVDs (Region 2 coding apparently, so Japan/Europe only otherwise you need a multi-region player) and presents a real DVD (not a DVD-R) with two separate audience-recorded films (w/zooms) of a gig that took place at Seibu Kodo, Kyoto during the Rallizes final live incarnation, featuring Takashi Mizutani alongside Yokai Takahashi, Yukimichi Noma and Katsushiko Ishii. Track listing is classic, including dazzling versions of "Enter The Mirror" and "The Last One" and Mizutani looks new wave as fuck, sporting sharp sculpted bangs and a tiny leather jacket and coming across as even more beanpole wasted than he looks on the companion 1982 DVD. Title page gives you the option of which version you wanna watch, with one closer to the pit action, another zooming in from the back. Full colour sleeve. Still hard to believe that this even exists. Japan-only release, highly recommended.


Metal Machine Music '82:

Unbelievable package from the Japanese label that have taken on the job of making available definitive versions of all sorts of juicy Rallizes-related rarities. This is one of two of the first ever Rallizes DVDs (Region 2 coding apparently, so Japan/Europe only otherwise you need a multi-region player) and presents a real DVD (not a DVD-R) with a professional single-camera (with zooms on Mizutani) film of a wild live show from the Rallizes trio in 1982 at Keio Gijuku University. Classic set-list takes in all of the major works and ends with a synapse-splitting version of "The Last One". Rallizes are on full-blown Exploding Plastic Inevitable style here, complete with a disorientating light show that at points casts them as three silhouettes and the sonics are the kinda post-"I Heard Her Call My Name"/"Guess I'm Falling In Love" style motorik amphetamine that birthed the term avant-garage. It almost feels wrong to see Rallizes in this kinda unveiled state, but when Mizutani laconically works his wrist around some of the most mind-bending and purely-stated acid guitar leads none of it matters a fug. The kinda direct access to the source that still feels ridiculously unlikely. Just glad that someone was keen enough to preserve this kinda jaw-dropping documentation of Rallizes subterranean reign. Comes with a full-colour sleeve that includes a replica of the gig flier and screen shots. Comes fully indexed so you can jump straight to individual tracks or watch it the whole way through. Japan-only release, highly recommended.

Does anyone have the 1982/10/08 Keio University show (Metal Machine Music '82?)? If so, how is the quality?

Does anyone know any place to trade/download/buy this?

Thanks

Just in case anyone feels the need to own a Les Rallizes Denudes t-shirt, that nice Mr Cope has them for sale on his website at the moment for £13.00:



Beautiful Rallizes Denudes t-shirt just in, this high quality American-made Gildan product bears their delightful 1969 pre-hijacking quote: "Sometimes you have a guitar, Sometimes you arm yourself!" Black shirt with cyan blue and white printing.

www.headheritage.co.uk

He also has the Flightless Bird CD still available, for £12.99:



Otherwise My Conviction (3.34)
Valle de l’eau (2.37)
Enter the Mirror (13.46)
Smokin’ Cigarette Blues (19.17)
Flames of Ice (17.12)
Field of Artificial Flowers (10.37)
Deeper than Night (2.24)
Otherwise My Conviction (4.04)

FLIGHTLESS BIRD is a compilation album and rough guide to Japan’s, nay, the world’s most revolutionary rock’n’roll band (see Julian’s Album of the Month for May 2007). It’s a MEATY BEATY BIG & BOUNCY from the Underworld, a seminal and essential 70-minute work by a seminal and essential band - and it don’t half sound good. A real CD for a change. Get that, a real shrinkwrapped CD, motherfuckers!

www.headheritage.co.uk

mr cope really likes to scandalize his subject matter, uh?

thats fucking stupid.. $58 US dollars for a new mass produced DVD if it comes nicely packed i'll retract that statement but my guess it will be a fairly modest looking release with a manufacturing cost of around $3... PSF prices totally suck

cd/dvd manufacturing costs are absurd in Japan. It ain't PSF's fault. All Japanese CDs are insanely expensive.

even if it's double the cost it would make it a dollar more.. the actual CD and DVD is the cheapist part of a release.. the print work always cost more.

why the fuck does the first Fushitsusha double CD cost $36 for double?? when a bunch of other Japanese double discs cost way less?? http://www.psfrecords.com/list1-20.html package is modest i know they didnt sink the money into print work

PSF can charge whatever they like for their CDs and DVDs as far as I'm concerned, so long as they promise to invest the profits that they make back into releasing yet more damn fine music.

Anyone? :D

From the latest Volcanic Tongue update:

Les Rallizes Denudes
Are You Rallizesed?
Ignuitas CDAR24/35
2xCD
£36.99

New limited-edition double CD set from long-time archival Rallizes label Ignuitas. This one features a complete Rallizes show from Shizuoka Stupa in 1974 with Mizutani feeding his guitar to the fire with outrageous Star Spangled Banner-style leads while the rest of the group lay-down some of the most brain-freezing nod-out grooves of their entire career. There’s a great slack, elegaically-stoned feel to the playing and by the end of the show the whole group are obliviously destroyed. Recommended.

Les Rallizes Denudes
Cable Hogue Soundtrack
Univive 016
2xCD
£46.99

Long-awaited legendary Rallizes compilation put together by guitarist/vocalist Mizutani himself, originally as the soundtrack source to the Rallizes movie. It’s the closest we’ll ever come to Mizutani fully articulating his own particular vision for Rallizes and of course it is as gloriously fucked and impossible to fully grasp as you might have hoped. Coming across like something between Sonic Youth’s Sonic Death cassette, the most fucked-up Grateful Dead boot and Dean Benedetti’s recordings of Charlie Parker’s improvised solos, the fidelity moves from sub-Dead C nada-fi through to truly sublime endless hi-fi jams. The material seems to have been chosen on the strength of Mizutani’s soloing alone and as such some of his most mind-flaying six string moves are secreted in here as well as radical headcharges through all of the group’s key material. As usual with these deluxe Univive titles, this edition is extremely limited and made-to-order and as such we have very small numbers and can only offer one of each title per customer. Highly recommended.

Les Rallizes Denudes
Mizutani 2 with Association Love Songs
Univive 015
3xCD Box
£58.99

Massively-expanded deluxe edition on the premier Rallizes imprint, Univive, that restores one of the few official albums released by Rallizes during their lifespan, Mizutani. The original Mizutani album was made up of material compiled over the years 1973-75 and features more stripped down, blasted rock songs that give the nod to Neil Young as much as the Velvets or Blue Cheer, with wasted vocals and downer guitar blues serrated with aching, extended guitar oblivions. This amazing set restores all of the material from the original Mizutani session that was discovered on the complete Mizutani selection reel as well as a second live disc made up from an excellent soundboard recording featuring some of the blackest of Rallizes heavy-meta sets and a third disc of demo recordings from 1976 including some fully-freaked improvisations. Every Univive set is of course extremely limited and made-to-order and as such we have very small numbers and can only offer one of each title per customer. Highly recommended.

Les Rallizes Denudes
One More Night Tripper
Univive 006
4xCD-R Box
£68.99

Monster selection of primo live meat from the most enigmatic of underground Japanese psych groups, Mizutani’s Les Rallizes Denudes. This deluxe set bundles two wild shows from 1980, possibly the band’s absolute peak year. Mizutani’s guitar is coated in layers of fuzz, delay and reverb and the sound is ballroom huge as they bulldoze their back catalogue into impossibly dense singularities. Every Univive set is of course extremely limited and made-to-order and as such we have very small numbers and can only offer one of each title per customer. Highly recommended.

Les Rallizes Denudes
Double Heads Legendary Live
Univive 014
6xCD Box
£85.99

This has got to be the most over-the-top presentation from the premier Rallizes imprint: 6 CDs of the Rallizes at their most fully realised, fusing heavy, slow-motion blues that are extended to the point of ecstasy with beautiful lost-in-space vocals, ginchy 60s girl group basslines, feedback solos and of course Mizutani’s guitar, which sounds impossibly huge, walking the line between singing melodic guitar immolation and post-White Light/White Heat atom-smashing fury. Drawn from three key gigs: 14th August 1980, 29th October 1980 and 23rd March 1981, it’s easy to see how these shows have long been regarded as the equivalent of Dylan’s 1966 run. Just unbelievable. Every Univive set is of course extremely limited and made-to-order and as such we have very small numbers and can only offer one of each title per customer



http://www.volcanictongue.com/

A few hours later and apparently they are all already sold out, except for one ("Cable Hogue Soundtrack"):

http://www.volcanictongue.com/artist...izes%20Denudes

In spite of the price... I'm not sure if I'm ready to pay 65-70 euros for that remaining 2xCD...

If I was that sort of a person, I'd have bought one of those as a short-term investment. But I've only just thought of that. Bugger!

The exchange rate would have killed me anyway...

by the way, since those Rallizes albums seem to evaporate as soon as they become available:

http://die-fremde.blogspot.com/searc...3%A9nud%C3%A9s

it's so lame that they only release them in minute quantities
and such ridiculous prices. £69 for 4 CDRs is a complete fucking con. i despise labels and musicians who play into the hands of collectors. it totally puts me off listening to the music.

i agree what totallllly shit.. i should buy these and bootleg them.. hell arent these bootlegs anyway??

Those CD prices are absuuuuuuuuuurd. Yes, 10 'u's.
I doubt anybody involved with the band is going to see any of that money either.

Stupid.

The France Demo is some live recordings from a show in 1983. You can also hear these songs on disc 10 of the 20 disc Dizastar box (bootleg is disc 10 of Studio & Soundboard).

The complete show sans The Romance of Black Grief appears on the bootleg 81-88 Live & Soundboard. I thought I would share because LRD has a very very confusing release catalog.
http://bleakbliss.blogspot.co.uk/201...ance-demo.html