J. A. Seazer
J. A. Seazer (born Takaaki Terahara) is a Japanese composer, lyricist and theatre director. In the early 1970s he joined Tenjo Sajiki, the theatre company of Shuji Terayama, where he wrote incidental music and rock operas and also worked as a director. He reached a wider audience with his songs for the anime Revolutionary Girl Utena. J. A. Seazer worked with Shuji Terayama until the director's death, composing for the stage and for Terayama's films Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971) and Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974).
Kokkyou Junreika
Tokyo playwright, director and artist J.A. Caesar sprang to prominence in the early '70s largely through his work with Shuji Terayama's Tenjo Sajiki Theatre, specializing in vaguely sinister music reminiscent of a Hammer House Of Horrors soundtrack. …
Jashumon
More Japanese lysergic madness ! The 1972 soundtrack for Shuji Terayama's visionary movie of the same name contains all the elements necessary to reach composer & theatre producer J.A. Caesar's intended pleasure-centers. Disturbing, but in the end t…
Shintokumaru
Packaged in a mini LP sleeve with 2 obis, 4-page & 12-page booklets of Japanese liner notes and cloth CD sleeve in a resealable clear plastic sleeve. Fourth J.A. Seazer album, originally issued on Victor in 1978. Shuji Terayama and J.A.Seazer’s phant…
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BaraMon
The Tenjo Sajiki Company was an avant garde theater troupe formed by Terayama Shuji & was an audience participation street theatre designed to shock along the lines of the Living Theatre. Popular music was always incorporated in their projects, and s…
Saraba Hakobune
Another rarity is this original soundtrack album to Terayama Shuji's last movie with music by JA Seazer (Tenjo Sajiki, JA Caesar). Released in 1984, it was Terayama's last completed movie and Seazer's last contribution to his visionary and reactionar…
Den'en Ni Shisu
Deluxe first reissue of this 1974 J.A. Ceasar-performed theatrical underground classic. A nice example of the recent flood of late 1960's-early 1970's psych reissues from Japan that are in the more fluxus/theatrical vein. The period saw political uph…