Tokyo Kid Brothers-Throw Away The Books, Let's Go Into the Streets('71 Japan Rare Rock)

Heavily RECOMMENDED!
And its very rare
but hard to catogorise because its quite diverse
so i'll name it 'Rock'

Impossibly obscure 1971 release by the theatrical troupe led by
Tenjo Sajiki that would later become known as J.A. Caesar

Imagine the musical "Hair" staged on acid. Oh, it was?
Yeah, well then so was "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In". OK, imagine the musical "Hair" staged on really great acid, greatly upping the boogie ante, and produced by Magma! This and their other album earned them a spot on that ridiculous Nurse With Wound "list". Wondrously
psychedelic, yet quaintly earnest in a plaintive sort of way that
makes me so very happy that I don't understand Japanese

Part of julian cope review:

Tokyo Kid Brothers was a visionary dance troupe full of actors, musicians, strategists and self-proclaimed shamen. Legendary shouter Kan Mikami had journeyed south from the same part of Northern Japan as Japanese theatre�s underground legend Shuji Terayama. In the mid-60s, they had both developed within and moved away from the scene which spawned them to create their very own thing. Yutaka Higashi had come to join them after dropping out of Tokyo�s Waseda University. Then, in 1968, his own vision prompted him to split and form Tokyo Kid Brothers, a rock�n�roll dance and theatre troupe who looked like an ingrown hippy take on West Side Story.

Tokyo Kid Brothers didn�t make enough records to secure more than a stowaway�s free ride in the luggage hold of rock�n�roll history, but their vicious combination of fuzzbuster guitar, Psychedelic Underground-period Amon Duul female chorale, yatter-natter �tween song chatter, and smart alliances with other Japanese underground heroes will, in the long term, guarantee them more real longevity than this first review can even begin to imagine.
Indeed, I know of only one other Tokyo Kid Brothers LP, and even that�s currently unavailable. But scour the nether recesses of Japanese late �60s theatre and you�ll find the same musical themes of this LP cropping up all over. For it seems to be the way with this underground theatre scene that all was interlinked.
They shouldn�t be judged on their records alone because they were much more than that. But in the absence of visual evidence, they must be. So it�s to their credit that Tokyo Kid Brothers still sounds like essential listening.
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