The Japanese Doom Psych Band Who Hijacked an Airplane
Most people are introduced to Les Rallizes Dénudés as the band whose former bassist hijacked an airplane during Japan's late 60s/early 70s counterculture movement. But while this did indeed happen, it's hardly the most interesting thing about them. The Rallizes' blistering, feedback-laden "Wall of Sound" music is awe-inspiring and incredibly innovative. They played doomy shoegaze punk rock years before shoegaze, or punk rock were even a thing.
UPDATE: RIP MIZUTANI 1948-2019
UPDATE 2: Full translation of Moriaki's interview is uploaded to my sister channel: • Moriaki Wakabayashi Interview (2017) ...
0:00 - Les Rallizes Dénudés - Strung Out Deeper Than The Night
0:50 - Les Rallizes Dénudés - Night of The Assassins
3:24 - The Mops - The Letter
3:37 - The Jacks - Marianne
4:28 - Les Rallizes Dénudés - Les Bulles De Savon
4:59 - Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues
5:08 - Velvet Underground - Sister Ray
5:20 - Ornette Coleman - Chappaqua Suite
5:30 - Les Rallizes Dénudés - The Last One
7:22 - Les Rallizes Dénudés - The Night Collectors
9:52 - Flower Travellin' Band - Satori 2
10:18 - Les Rallizes Dénudés - Deeper Than The Night (Part 3) from "Oz Days Live"
10:41 - Les Rallizes Dénudés - Deeper Than The Night from "Yodo-Go-A-Go-Go"
10:56 - Les Rallizes Dénudés - Deeper Than The Night from "77 Live" and "Heavier Than a Death In The Family"
11:14 - Les Rallizes Dénudés - Romance Of The Black Grief
13:03 - Les Rallizes Dénudés - Artificial Flower Wilderness
14:13 - Les Rallizes Dénudés - Enter The Mirror
SOURCES:
Interview with Mizutani (1991): https://chimidoro.exblog.jp/10827476/
Interview with Wakabayashi (2017): https://www.buzzfeed.com/jp/ryosukeka...
Video interview with Wakabayashi (english): • Moriaki Wakabayashi Interview (2017) ...
Video interview with Wakabayashi (original): • よど号グループ・若林盛亮 インタビュー
Interview with Makoto Kubota: https://mikiki.tokyo.jp/articles/-/25410
Translated Yodogo Hijacking video: • 1970 Yodogo Hijacking w/ English Subt...