Tenjo Sajiki, Shuji Terayama, J. A. Seazer

Fourth J.A. Seazer album, originally issued on Victor in 1978. Shuji Terayama and J.A.Seazer’s phantasmagoric folk-psych-symph-prog-rock opera. Historical Tenjo Sajiki performance from 1978. J.A. Caesar (also spelled J.A. Seazer and J.A. Ceaser) is the pseudonym for a Tokyo music composer who has been involved with creating music for various theater and film projects since the very early '70s. His music is a radical mixture of progressive rock, traditional Japanese theater music, and Magma-inspired Zeuhl music. 

One of Caesar's achievements can be said to be a "show opera on the theme of the sermon". Musical elements that transcend genres such as rock, classical, Japanese music  are blended together to create a bloody story of mother abandonment that mixes the world of medieval tales and pre-war Japan. From the opening to "Jijin Shindori", the fusion of Japanese taiko drum rhythm and stringed instruments, Takeshi Mori's guitar with a sense of speed flowing between them, and the dialogue with his unique sense of language... It's a masterpiece. (label press)