Les Rallizes Denudes

While Les Rallizes Dénudés’ YaneUra Oct. ‘80 was being prepared for release, a mysterious tape was unearthed. Within the pile of various archived recordings from the same era was an undated cassette, which contained the unmistakeable guitar sounds of frontman Takashi Mizutani and that of Fujio Yamaguchi, the former Murahachibu guitarist whose time with the Rallizes ushered in a new era for the band. It’s a known fact that there are many unofficial Rallizes releases out there, most of them being recordings of their live shows. But this, for certain, was something no one had ever heard before. The exact date of this recording is unknown. But according to Kiyohiro Takada (aka Doronco), who was the band’s bass player at the time, “there’s no mistaking that this is from Mars Studio in Kunitachi, from summer 1980, soon after we started recording there.”