Tenjo.Sajiki.Collection.(Shuji.Terayama,.J.A.Seazer,.Kan.Mikami).(Japanese.avant-garde.theater.and.film.music).mp3.rar 
Opera.from.the.works.of.Tadanori.Yokoo.by.Toshi.Ichiyanagi.(1969).(Japanese.avant-garde.New.Wave.Fluxus).4CD.mp3.rar Cochin.moon.(Haruomi.Hosono,.Tadanori.Yokoo,.1978).(Japanese.psychedelia).mp3.rar This is a large collection of various Japanese-New-Wave-related music pieces that have been previously uploaded to FSS (and got there from the soulseek network, etc).
The large archive are various incidental music compilations and movie soundtracks written for Shuji Terayama and his underground theater Tenjo Sajiki (the principal artists there are J.A.Seazer and Kan Mikami). Then there two further works, each of them involving the out-of-the-ordinary graphic designer Tadanori Yokoo in some way.
The detailed descriptions are below. Please enjoy...
Album info (for later renaming if desired)
Tenjo Sajiki - Jashumon (PCD-1465 1972)
Tenjo Sajiki - Pastoral To Die In the Country (SWAX057 1974)
Tenjo Sajiki - Throw Away Your Books Rally in the Streets (SWAX062 1970)
Kan Mikami - Live (IOC1-41010 1972)
J.A. Caesar - Kokkyou Jyunreika (1973)
Details of the audio pack
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Artist: Tenjo Sajiki, J.A. Caesar
Title: Throw Away Your Books Rally in the Streets
Label: SHOWBOAT/SKY STATION (JAPAN)
Format: CD
Catalog #: SWAX 062
"Typical of the company's early, crazed style is the recently reissued Throw Away The Books, originally released on their own label in 1970. Confusingly, there is a film soundtrack of the same title, but this is the extremely rare original theatrical version and contains entirely different material. Subtitled 'a high-teen symphony', the performance centers around untrained adolescents reading out their own tortured, angry (and in one case, stuttering) texts and poems. Their stories of family disintegration and mother-hate, dreams and hopes for the future, and love songs to teen murderer Norio Nagayama and Mick Jagger are set to an attractively rough and ready pounding psych-rock soundtrack largely composed by organist Kuni Kawachi. Kawachi had been a member of pioneering Prog group Happenings Four and his brooding organ riffs feature throughout. As well as heavy rockers like the great opening 'Lets Go Ornette', with its ripping fuzz lead, Orff-style choral chants and motorbike effects, Kawachi was also capable of delicate, folkish pieces ideally suited for some of the company's outstanding female vocalists, several of whom developed successful singing careers outside of Tenjo Sajiki. Also of note is a track composed by a young design school dropout, Shinjuku street hippy and winner of a nationwide longhair competition, by the unlikely name of JA Caesar (Tenjo Sajiki also had its own Sinatra and Salvador Dali). Set to a simple handclap rhythm, Caesar's tale of the panhandling life possessed a subtle melodic strength and depth that hinted at the minor keys of traditional folk song. Caesar soon came into his own, composing all the music for Terayama's performances and films for the next decade, and finally inheriting the remnants of the troupe after Terayama's death in 1983." -- Alan Cummings, The Wire.
http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/tenjo.sajiki.html
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Artist: Tenjo Sajiki, J.A. Caesar
Title: Den'en Ni Shisu
Label: SHOWBOAT/SKY STATION (JAPAN)
Format: CD
Catalog #: SWAX 057
"Some of the most exciting and evocative music of the time, however, was born out of the avant garde theatre groups that had played such a central role in the 60s ferment. One of the most important was the Tenjo Sajiki Company (its name taken from Marcel Carne's wartime occupation fantasy Les Enfants Du Paradis), formed by poet, film maker, boxing fan and all round agent provocateur, Shuji Terayama. Renowned for Living Theatre-inspired audience participation happenings and extreme street theatre designed to shock the bourgeois, by 1970 the group had already become a haven for runaway teens, and a focus for police investigation. Terayama was canny enough to realize that co-opting their music was an ideal way to hijack adolescent energies, and he consistently used heavy amplified rock to jump-start his chaotic, socially critical acid operas. Heard today, even independent of their lyrical message, they're astonishingly powerful as pieces of music, deploying huge Magma choruses alongside juggernaut organ, guitar, bass, drums and fully out-there vocalizing. -- Alan Cummings, The Wire.
http://www.ear-rational.com/detail.php?id=12052
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Artist: Tenjo Sajiki, J.A. Caesar, Kan Mikami
Title: Jashumon
Label: P-Vine
Format: CD
Catalog #: PCD-1465
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.
http://volcanictongue.com/label.php?lab=P-Vine
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Artist: Kan Mikami
Title: Live (1972)
Label: URC
Format: CD
Catalog #: IOC1-41010
A really raspy folk musician like Kazuki Tomokawa (singer in Miike's Izo)
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Kan is also a published poet and novelist, a regular TV presenter (especially on late-night shows), and an occasional film-star. You may have seen him in Nagisa Oshima's POW drama "Merry Christmas, Mr.Lawrence" with David Bowie and Ryuichi Sakamoto.
http://noise.as/main/mikami
Tenjo Sajiki: Shuji Terayama's theatre troupe who apparently also did radio plays
http://www.realtokyo.co.jp/english/book/book-2005.htm
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In 1967, Terayama formed the Tenjo Sajiki (天井桟敷）theater troupe, whose name comes from the Japanese translation of the 1945 Marcel Carné film "Les Enfants du Paradis", so can be translated as "children of heaven", though it has a meaning similar to the English expression "The Peanut Gallery". The troupe was dedicated to the avant-garde and staged a number of controversial plays tackling social issues from an iconoclastic perspective. Some major plays include "Bluebeard" (青ひげ ), "Yes"（イエス）, and "The Crime of Fatso Oyama"（大山デブコの犯罪）, among others. Also involved with the theater was artist Tadanori Yokoo (横尾忠則), who designed many of the advertisement posters for the group. Musically, he worked closely with experimental composer J.A. Seazer and folk musician Mikami Kan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuji_Terayama
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Artist: Toshi Ichiyanagi
Title: Opera from the Works of Tadanori Yokoo by Toshi Ichiyanagi (1969)
Label: Bridge Inc.
Format: CD Reissue
Catalog #: BRIDGE-028/031
Bitrate: 192 kbps
Runtime: 1:17:31
ICHIYANAGI TOSHI: “Opera From the Works of Tadanori Yokoo by Toshi Ichiyanagi (1969)” (2LP set – The End Records - Picture Disc) (Records: Excellent plays great – no visible scratches of hairlines / Fold out Jacket: Excellent), First you got a taste of the action with the reissue 4-CD set that made you droll all over yourself, so now it is time for the real thing to cause amok, the original artifact of this almost never offered for sale LP, one of Japan's most in demand and ultimate great psych meets avant-garde dementia artifacts. Forget all the rest, this is IT. Without a single doubt one of the greatest mind-blowing psych and Fluxus artifacts to ever have hit the streets. Housed in lavishly designed 2LP foldout jacket, this gorgeous disc is one of the rarest and most sought after Japanese psychedelic, avant-garde artifacts, a real object d'art, revitalizing one of Japan's best ever psychedelic avant-garde head-on collisions. Released in 1969 on the private End Records and now one of Japan's most sought after vinyl artifacts, “Opera from the Works of Tadanori Yokoo by Toshi Ichiyanagi” is a brain ripper and an eye popper of a disc. Visually it is without a single doubt one of the most beautiful LP's ever to be released, a 2 LP picture disc decorated lavishly by Tadanori Yokoo's Fluxus inspired psychedelic artwork. Upon folding open the disc, you get treated to a 4 paged inner booklet of 24 carefully designed postcards depicting posters done by Tadanori up until 1969 for various theatre troupes such as Terayama Shuji's Tenjosajiki. In short it is a visual delight that will cause temporary dysfunctional catharsis on the eyes. But apart from the visual grandeur and overload you are bound to be hit senseless with, the music embedded within this LP set and accompanying picture discs is so overwhelming you will have a hard time trying to come to terms with it upon attempting to digest it properly. In one word: sensory nimiety on all fronts. The man responsible for it was avant-garde composer Ichiyanagi forging a diabolical pact with the psyched-out band the Flowers (spearheaded by Uchida Yuya) and illustrator Tadanori. Together they delivered (with the help of other luminary artists coming out of various fields such as Kara Juro, Takakura Ken as the most prolific ones) an unique amalgamated mixture of lysergic demented psychedelic assault-like stunt rock, a aural whirlwind filled with acid folk ramblings, tape collages, field recording excerpts, radio commercial snippets, roaring jet engines, electronic music excursions into the vast unexcavated canyons and dungeons of your mind, squealing sound fragments of frogs mating in a nearby pond, drowned out enka escapades, kayokyoku excursions into no mans land, Takakura Ken nasal singing, spoken word fragmentation bombs by Kara Juro amongst others, traffic noises, sonic sound clusters of blistering fuzzed out psychedelic mayhem, stratospheric static electronic hissing, radio news broadcast flashes, vintage electronic tape music escapades, chirping cricket orchestras in a distant background and so much more non-adaptive and deranged sonic activity. This disc leaves no stone unturned and is probably one of the best records ever made. Upon listening to this, you hardly need anything else anymore. Highest Recommendation. Rare as hell does not even come close to describing the scarceness of this 2 LP picture disc set and then I am not even mentioning the visual splendor of the overall packaging – music and museum piece qualities all folded up into one single item, the dream artifact of every self-respecting lover of outward sounds and collective deranged discs – highest rank of collectibility and musical demented splendor – a killer on all fronts that no other disc can match…. Nice price way below your regular dealer and e-bay frenzies that often reaches the 1200~1500-dollar mark – Seen against that background, this one is almost a bargain sale…Price: 800 Dollars
http://www.tiliqua-records.com/rare/Rare_rec.htm
limited edition of 1000 copies
http://www.tadanoriyokoo.com/
Yokoo Tadanori
The graphic design of Yokoo Tadanori
Metropolis Yokoo Tadanori feature story
Toshi Ichiyanagi
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Born in 1933 in Kobe, Japan, Toshi Ichiyanagi studied composition with Kishio Hirao and John Cage, piano with Chieko Hara, Barnhard Weiser and Beveridge Webster. After attending the Julliard School of Music and the New School for Social Research in New York between 1954-60, he returned to Japan in 1961, and introduced many new musical concepts, including Cage's idea of indeterminacy, exerting a strong influence on the stream of the Japanese contemporary music.
http://www.tokyo-concerts.co.jp/artist_ ... anagi.html
HOSONO & YOKOO
Cochin Moon
1978.9.21 King Record Co. lp: SKS-28, cd: KICS 2144
Superb. Way ahead of its time with trance-like synths and exotic world colors. The album is co-credited to famous pop (graphic) artist Tadanori Yokoo, who did the cover, but seemingly neither wrote nor played on it. I was able to get Yokoo-san to autograph my LP cover during a 1991 NYC speaking engagement. He laughed with slight embarrassment that anyone in the US would have a copy (and on vinyl). Ryuichi Sakamoto plays synths also and his playing style is evident. Hideki Matsutake, who would later do the sequencer work for YMO and front the synth-based band, Logic System, programs the sequencer here. A brilliant album. This is the first album that sounds like the Hosono we are used to.
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