TENJOSAJIKI BARAMON J.A. SEAZER Terayama Japan Underground Psych private 1972

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TENJOSAJIKI (J.A. SEAZER – TERAYAMA SHUJI: “Baramon”

LABEL: Tenjosajiki Records

Label Number: -

JAPAN ONLY issue of this rare 1972 Japanese underground Psychedelic Underground slide with music by J.A Seazer. Limited 2002 issue. Comes with 6 paged insert. Killer, and rare and out of print!!!!

GRADING:

LP Record Set: Excellent ~ Near Mint

Jacket: Near Mint

6 paged Insert: Near Mint

Some words on this issue: TENJOSAJIKI – TERAYAMA SHUJI – J.A. SEAZER: “Baramon” (Gay Revolution) This is a limited reissue of the ultra rare privately released Tenjosajiki record “Baramon”. This identical reissue dates from 2002 and was released in a tiny edition of 500 copies, which sold out in a matter of weeks. So here is your last chance to grab a vinyl copy of this historical document. But about the music: “Some of the most exciting and evocative music of the early 70’ties in Japan was born out of the avant-garde theatre groups that had played such a central role in the 60’ties ferment. One of the most important was the Tenjosajiki Company formed by poet, film maker, boxing fan and all round agent provocateur Terayama Shuji. Renowned for Living-Theatre inspired audience participation happenings and extreme street theatre designed to shock the bourgeois; by 1970 the group had already 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 jumpstart his chaotic, socially critical acid operas…..By 1972, Baramon saw J.A. Seazer and Kuni Kawauchi (of the Happenings Four and Kirikyogen) splitting the compositional scores on a bizarre musical manifesto for sexual liberation. So far so Hair, but rather than a tribute to free love, Terayama instead composed an eloquent plea for the liberation of the sexual underclass suffering discrimination, in the form of a “gay revolution”. It wasn’t Terayama’s first engagement with the Tokyo queer scene – one of the earliest plays he wrote for the Tenjosajiki was a vehicle for transvestite actress and chanson singer Akihiro Miwa, who was rumored to have had a dalliance with Yukio Mishima. Baramon’s opening is a blast – a densely narrated and impassioned call to arms set to a Nazi military march that links sexual second class citizenship to imperialist social control and warmongering. Featuring the actual voices of numerous smutty, cross-dressing scene queens, the record’s content was deemed so subversive that it was only sold under the counter of Tokyo gay bars. Like a biker backstage at the Cage Aux Folles, fuzzed out guitar riffs and heavy swelling organ-based psych rock tracks rub shoulders with the lachrymose ballads and tawdry, mascara smudging chanson still favored in certain Shinjuku nighteries.” (The Wire, Alan Cummings). So I guess you get the picture. Highest recommendation and rare to say the least. Pristine and immaculate condition.

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