[Everyneurotic]

what's a good high rise album, i want to hear full lenght high rise!!

[Savage Clone]

Dispersion and High Rise Live are great.
I will YSI a CDR I got by them called "Psychedelic French Meeting 98." It's way outta print, so not much guilt there.

[Everyneurotic]

Originally Posted by Savage Clone

Dispersion and High Rise Live are great.
I will YSI a CDR I got by them called "Psychedelic French Meeting 98." It's way outta print, so not much guilt there.

OH MY GOD PLEASE!!!!!!

all i have from high rise is this split they released with mainliner that someone uploaded to the yahoo group.

[sonicl]

First things first, High Rise and Mainliner could easily have been the same group. High Rise was Asahito Nanjo on bass and vocals and Munehiro Narita on guitar, joined by a succession of drummers (including Yuro Ujiie, Pill and free-jazz veteran Shoji Hano in the past, and Koji Shimura currently), while Mailiner was Asahito Nanjo (bass, vocal), Makoto Kawabata (guitar) and Tatsuya Yoshida (drums). Mainliner was kind of High Rise crossed with Acid Mothers Temple.

For High Rise my recommendations are Disallow or Live, both on Squealer (http://www.squealermusic.com/catalog/hrise.html). I'm not a fan of Dispersion or High Rise 2 as I think they're a bit underproduced and tend to wimp out a bit when they should be shredding your speakers.

For Mainliner I'd recommend Imaginative Plain or Psychedelic Polyhedron. Imaginative Plain is quite similar to High Rise, while Psychedelic Polyhedron is more like Acid Mothers.

On the subject of High Rise and associated bands, can anyone give me any recommendations regarding Munehiro Narita's solo stuff or Kyoaku No Intention?

[Savage Clone]

Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

OH MY GOD PLEASE!!!!!!

all i have from high rise is this split they released with mainliner that someone uploaded to the yahoo group.

Dangit.
That was me.
This is the same one.
Sorry, I have no other digitzed High Rise to share...


Sonicl, "underproduced" is the most hilarious thing I have ever heard said about High Rise!
ALL their stuff is recorded in the red! It all sounds "underproduced." I know what you mean though.
The worst of the "underproduced' sound is Psychedelic Sped Freaks 84-88; very very shrill and thin-sounding to me, though some people I know just love it.

That Psychedelic Polyhedron Mainliner LP is an alltime favorite, as is the "Seventh Seal" LP released by Acme, containing Nanjo and Kawabata. Whoa, man, mystical journey time...

[truncated]

I'll concur on Disallow and High Rise Live, but I rather liked Dispersion myself. Deuteronomy is a kickass track.

*Edit: I always post late in the game, after others have made much more informative contributions. So, scratch that.

[Glice]

Originally Posted by Savage Clone

The worst of the "underproduced' sound is Psychedelic Sped Freaks 84-88; very very shrill and thin-sounding to me, though some people I know just love it.

That's the only album of theirs as far as I'm concerned. All else pails next to the might of this album.

[Everyneurotic]

first of all thanks for your recommendations. special thanks to sonicl for the mainliner recommendations

yeah, i knew mainliner and high rise are pretty much the same band. in fact, when i first heard them or saw them mentioned i thought their name was "high rise/mainliner". i love both bands, i just wanted to listen to more high rise.

Savage Clone: i have all my titles scrambled right now and i also people at the yahoo group have uploaded a lot of munehiro narita and related stuff which i have missed, so i got confused there. thanks anyway. by the way, where's the davis redford triad boot you promised?

[Iain]

Ummmm, what about Mellow Out by Mainliner. That one is awesome.

[Savage Clone]

Mellow Out is incredible!
Thanks for the reminder on Davis Redford Triad.
I'll get on that.

[DJ Rick]

That "Black Sky" song on Mellow Out is my favorite particular song by Mainliner...such a cool funk strut, and yet the very definition of heavy.

Each time I saw High Rise or Mainliner live, it was amazing. Yet, strangely, the crowd never numbered more than about 20 or 30. What a shame!

[i]Psychedelic Speed Freaks 84-88" is the one album outta the whole lot that I rarely, if ever, revisit. Great songs are evident, but the bottom end is completely missing....unacceptable.

Dispersion and II rate as my most recommendable High Rise albums.

I love that VU-meters-pinned-right style!

[Phlegmscope]

How have I missed this one...

Yes II is probably the most furiously rockin' album I own. Turn you cry!
I wasn't so fond of dissallow, but I like the song Ikon alot. I've been meaning to get the live one and dispersion. I haven't heard Mainliner yet.

[Toilet & Bowels]

i listened to mellow out today, it's superb.

[blunderbuss]

High Rise DVD being released on PSF in December!!!!!!!

http://www.psfrecords.com/new.html

[blunderbuss]

And for the benefit of the Japanese readers here, this is from the Narita Munehiro live appearances section on the High Rise web site:

2008/12/01　(月)
PSF RECORDS PRESENTS
成田宗弘スペシャル・プロジェクト
高円寺ショーボート
www.showboat.co.jp
開場19:00／開演19:30
【第1部】　兇悪のインテンション/成田宗弘(g)、山本達久(ds)
【第2部】　新ユニット／成田宗弘(g)、田畑満(b)、山本達久(ds)
前売／2500円(要ドリンク・オーダー)
当日／2800円(要ドリンク・オーダー)
(前売チケット販売／各店頭)
モダーン・ミュージック／03-3322-4461
ショーボート／03-3337-5745
ローソン・チケット取扱い
(総合問合せ)
モダーン・ミュージック／03-3322-4461


2008/12/09　(火)
WABO-CHAO presents vol.6　’Frankie Teardrop’
高円寺 Club Mission's 03-5888-5605）
料金2000円+1ドリンク　　開場19:00　開演20:00
すべてのドリンクを2杯目以降300円にて提供！　おでん無料サービスあり！
“Wabo-Chao”
“成田宗弘+秋山徹次”
“川口雅巳ニューロックシンジケイト”
lighting:OHPIA
ハイ・ライズ、凶悪のインテンション、数々のセッションとソロ…。
青白く燃え上がる圧巻のサイケデリック・スピード・フリークス成田宗弘。
ミクロからマクロに至る音量を、繊細に、ときには大胆にコントロールし、
身体の電子化を試みる秋山徹次。
独自の世界を歩む二人のギタリストによる魂の響宴「成田宗弘+秋山徹次」
ブルーム・ダスターズ、哀秘謡、みみのこと、LSD Marchなどの活動を経た川口雅己による、痙攣するギターと震える歌声が絡み合うロックン・ロール・トリ オ。
ダーク・サイケデリアとガレージ・パンクの融合「川口雅巳ニューロックシンジケイト」
そして「OHPIA」がステージを万華鏡のごとく投射します。

If either of those says that he's appearing with Nanjo Asahito, I want to know NOW!

[atsonicpark]

this band rules!

[Everyneurotic]

psychedelic speed freaks 84-88 is my current favorite, i haven't heard the original versions, but love the super shrill mix.

musica transonic are also ace ace ace, by the way.

[blunderbuss]

Originally Posted by blunderbuss

High Rise DVD being released on PSF in December!!!!!!!

http://www.psfrecords.com/new.html

Okay, February.......



UPCOMING (PSF) Releases

February 2009
High Rise / Live 1986 DVD (PSFDV-1002) First High Rise DVD! Featuring the classic line-up of Munehiro Narita (gtr), Asahito Nanjo (bs), and Yuro Ujiie (ds).

[batreleaser]

yay for kawabata!

[blunderbuss]

Originally Posted by batreleaser

yay for kawabata!

For fucks sake, no. The guy is a pointless expert at turning decent rock into self-indulgent hippy crap. Mainliner is literally the only decent thing I can think of him ever having been involved in.