JA Caesar-Heresy[''72 Japan Avantgarde Rock]

Highly Recommended!(and im not lying)
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first record by the guy with the longest hair(JA Caesar also
known as JA Seazer)
one of the reall hipies in japan
19 tracks of awesome psychedelic avantgarde rock
with some folk mixed in
this was probaly used for some Shuji Terayama theatre play
wich was also performed outside japan(also in the netherlands)
this is a recording of the only show they did in japan
excellent quality

also contains some kan mikami performances

some information:
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.

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