Les Rallizes Dénudés - 2006 - Naked Diza Star

Les Rallizes Dénudés

2006

Naked Diza Star

101. Unknown (Nov 1973)16:36

102. White Waking (8 Apr 1975)5:53

103. A Memory is Far (8 Apr 1975)8:59

104. Field of Artificial Flower (3 Nov 1975)5:27

105. Strong Out Deeper Than the Night (3 Nov 1975)13:11

106. Flames of Ice (3 Nov 1975)13:02

107. Dream (8 Apr 1975)7:07

108. The Kindness That Kills (25 July 1976)9:18

201. Diza Star (25 July 1976)8:53

202. Night of the Assassins (25 July 1976)11:34

203. Enter the Mirror (12 Mar 1977)8:14

204. The Night Collectors (13 Aug 1977)10:04

205. Flames of Ice (13 Aug 1977)15:08

206. The Last One (13 Aug 1977)26:02

301. Flames of Ice (19 Dec 1981)18:30

302. Romance of Black Grief (19 Dec 1981)11:15

303. Unknown (2 Oct 1982)7:26

304. Night of the Assassins (9 Sept 1986)13:36

305. Field of Artificial Flower (13 May 1987)8:10

306. The Last One (13 May 1987)18:05

1-1 recorded November 1973 at Meiji University, Tokyo.

1-2 and 1-3 recorded April 8, 1975 at Hinamatsuri [Doll Festival], Gotemba

1-4, 1-5 and 1-6 recorded November 3, 1975 at Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo.

1-7, 1-8, 2-1 and 2-2 recorded July 25, 1976 at Yaneura, Shibuya.

2-3 recorded March 12, 1977, Tachikawa Shakai Kyoiku Kaikan, Tachikawa. This recording is also featured on Les Rallizes Denudes - '77 Live.

2-4, 2-5 and 2-6 recorded August 13, 1977 at Yuyake Matusri, Ishikawa.

3-1 and 3-2 recorded December 19, 1981 at Yaneura, Shibuya.

3-3 recorded October 2, 1982 at Keio University Hiyoshi Campus, Kanagawa

3-4 recorded September 9, 1986 at the Rokumeikan, Meguro. This performance is also featured on Les Rallizes Denudes - Cable Hogue Soundtrack (track 2-7).

3-5 and 3-6 May 13, 1987 at the Rokumeikan, Meguro.

Purportedly, this compilation originated from a request by a music critic in 2003 for Mizutani to produce a high-quality release from a master source.

A collection of live recordings by the very underground band Les Rallizes Denudes. I'd like to say that they're so underground and unknown that even Windows media player didn't recognise the cd.

Silly joke aside, the music is essentially psychedelic and avant-garde. What it means is that the entirety of the album follows the same formula as the Rallizes' other releases; the songs are long, loud, repetetive romps with almost incomprehensible singing and seemingly a oath to never release a ordinary studio album. While Naked Diza Star does not have the loud feedback heard in "heavier than a death in the family" or is as calm as "Mizutani" the cd collection is just great sounding to me.

Lot's of music for the low price, which made me very happy and satisfied with buying it. But that's me who has been a fan of theirs since before - I'd recommend you to listen to Les Rallizes Denudes on spotify or youtube before deciding to buy. It is a acquired musical taste.

I hear a bunch of you (in my mind) already calling me "spoiled",....and I mean that because I am going to write a not so glowing review of something most of you would say we are just plain "lucky" to even hear(and in a way that's true). But I am very disappointed to find that this set is recorded on CD-R media! Other Bamboo brand releases were at least real ,pressed CDs. What made this company go cheap and release this, of all titles, as a set of CD-R's?? Naked Diza Star is known as one of the best sets of Les Rallizes' recordings,.....and truly (although NOT stellar in sound) this has to have the best recording sound and performances I have heard from this fabled band(which IS a BIG positive!).

Various live tracks assembled circa 1973-1987. As news of the new rock music made it to Japan from the UK and the USA, mostly via rock magazines and music papers, with most LPs tough to find even on import, something was lost in translation that allowed it to mutate well beyond its original remit. Les Rallizes Dénudés took rock music at its word while visioning it as both unnecessarily complicated and too stupid by far. In doing so they formulated an inspirational blueprint that would go on to have a marked effect on everything that came after them in Japanese underground music. It's a music that's as loose as it is uptight, as sophisticated as it is punk-primitive, as radical as it is simplistic. As the old ESP-Disk banner used to promise, truly, you never heard such sounds. Digitally remastered. Includes an 8-page booklet in English and Japanese.