Les Rallizes Dénudés
 

Any fans? If not...

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This band should be your life. Worship them.





Learn: Les Rallizes Dénudés - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Consume: WEHAVENOZEN: LES RALLIZES DENUDES

I can particularly recommend 'Heavier Than A Death In The Family' and 'Blind Baby Has Its Mothers Eyes'

I'm checking them out now. Excellent post sir. Always good to hear new bands.

I played some videos of these guys for my friends and they thought it sounded like Band Of Gypsys - which I can get to, closest thing in their experience and also a transcendent similarity - but then they also thought it was right on the line between noise and music, almost not really music at all, and of course that is clearly not the case... It gets far noisier than this, and less melodic.

Aye. Indeed it's more like proto-noise in places but mostly just comes off as The Shoegaze Band Of The Gods, a good 15 years before the term came about. The cult that keeps their bootlegs circulating is incredible, they were never signed...

I think I was converted listening to them for the first time ridiculously loud, back pressed against the wall (perfect speaker positioning), unslept for 36 hours... LRD's definitely calling from the same ethereal plain as My Bloody Valentine and V.U.

Chapterhouse they ain't.

EDIT: a bit more info on Mizutani's baby as the wiki is so poor.
Unfortunately Julian Cope's headheritage.com is down; his book Japrocksampler single-handedly alerted myself and I imagine most of Last.fm's 700 listeners to this incredible music.

can you send me sum?

For some reason, those videos reminded me of Bardo Pond, they sound a lot like them to me.

awesome group. though i think '77 live is their best record.

AHHHHHHHHHHH!

This band owns my soul!






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yeah 'Heavier Than A Death...' is the same recordings under a different title, I'm not sure there is much difference (different track titles?).

But yes, long overdue the 2XCD/live-DVD digipak Columbia super-deluxe reissue treatment I think

Saw them in Japrocksampler.
I got Live '77 a while ago, but I deleted it for some reason.
I'll probably relisten to it.

Sorry for the double post...

I'm listening to Live '77 now... absolutely amazing. I can't believe I dismissed it initially.

what can I say really, i don't feel like words would be adequate.

I know jackhammer has got this for review in one of his threads, and I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, one man's droning noise is another man's Mozart, but I really think Les Rallizes Denudes at their best (Live in 77/Heavier Than A Death are the same recording?) pack such a wallop. They can just wipe your brain clean and really f*cking depress you lol. I don't know.

They are really what 'Metal Machine Music' would sound like if all the believers were true/ if it wasn't pretentious sh*te

It works on the same noise principles as Merzbow sometimes combined with that strung-out otherworldy drone of the VU when they were cool. It just needs to be listened to so loud

When does screeching noise fueled by ganja smoke become pretentious? :crazy:

Nothing happens - sonically, musically, thematically. It's just some tones and feedback. Which is kind of interesting for about 60 seconds, but 70 minutes? f*ck off. Unenjoyable, self-indulgent sh*t of the first order. To me :)

Actually I think it's great for parties, especially ones where you would prefer the dip****s your female friends bring to be weeded out.

:bonkhead:

lol. LISTEN TO THIS BAND

I have and I reserve that for orgies.

Only have Live '77 but it's evidence enough to prove that this band are entirely worthy of the praise being bestowed upon them in this thread. Basically, it's great music. There’s just something so serenely meditative and hypnotic in the way the bass anchors such unrelenting torrents of raging feedback, especially for the length of time that most of the songs last for. Plus the songs are pretty damn hooky too. Now I need more... thinking 'Blind Baby Has Its Mothers Eyes' maybe, simply for that ridiculous title.

Is '77 the one to begin with?

Youtube sounded very cool, and the description of Band of Gypsys meets shoegaze is mindblowingly appealing.

Downloading presently.

Sounds like the name of a Radiohead song :laughing:

Just downloading now
from what I has been said here, I have plenty to look forward to

They are kind of...blergh!
I mean, sure, you get a hard-on on your first listen, but I found the re playability to be quite less. Listen to them only once in a blue moon.

Ech, I was a bit obsessed with them when I started this thread, depends on your preferences I guess and your disposition to noise. Best soaked up on headphones night-walking or at 5am short of 48 hours sleep :D
They reflect a kind of overpowering numbness and cosmic doom... Les Rallizes were obscenely ahead of their time, I am genuinely surprised at their Last.fm listening figures aswell - always thought the 'cult' would be much larger.

You are right though Demonoid, there are not many of their 20-minute epics that garner repeated listens on my end either, it's not that kind of music. It's trippy sh*t, like Velvet Underground force-fed My Bloody Valentine records by a time-traveling wizard. Or some other media hyperbole

However I do think it is commonly acknowledged by all that have lighted upon it that 'Night of the Assassins' is one of the Great Lost Riffs. The mystique (i.e. total absence of any facts whatsoever) surrounding the group and it's leader also bolsters the sinister power of the music I feel

The genre I tried to put down for them on iTunes was 'The Velvet Underground and My Bloody Valentine Having a Fight in Japan... Meanwhile a Tonedeaf, Stoned Young Man Speaks Over the All the Noise'... although it didn't fit, so I put it in the comments.

Oh, I certainly liked whatever I've heard so far. And I'm intrigued as well, with the mystery surrounding this band and how the heck they came up with this wall of noise that weirdly draws you in. It's just that, the 10-15+ minute epics are what blew me away in the first place but I'm not able to re-listen unless I'm in the mood. (which happens rarely)

Listening to just one song doesn't work imo. Need to listen to it all the way through. And oh, headphones are the way to go with this band. Speakers = a BIG NO-NO.

I'm impressed, though they definitely take a bit of effort to appreciate. A full listen through the album can be a little draining, they're heavier than I actually expected.
In the end, the bass is what keeps me listening more than anything, I love how you can hear it skittering along under this wall of disonance.

Very cool/awesome/noisy

Haven't been here in a while...

I know have about 10 of their albums. Perhaps one of the greatest bands ever. I'd give my right... arm... to see them live in their heyday.

I would get a Mizutani avatar, but looks like the avatar requests thread is closed :/

yeah, just the thing for insomnia - sit in a dark room very late at night with headphones or very good speakers (strangely key for this very low-fi music) and brood, or just sit and wait

how weird. I just saw this post now, two minutes after reading an overview of them on what I just found out is your site.

Anyway, post what you've got.

(A-Z)
Blind Baby Has its Mother's Eyes
Cradle Saloon '78
Heavier Than a Death in the Family
Live 1972
Mizutani
Studio Soundboard 1967-1975 (haven't listened yet)
Volcanic Performance (I just listened to all four hours of it now)
Yodo-Go-a-Go-Go [Flightless Bird]
'77 Live

I would say if you want me to upload any then just ask, but I found them all quite easily online, so... Though I'd like some early stuff, specifically 67-69 Studio et Live.

Also I just bought some glasses similar to Mizutani's here:
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I am obsessed.

Yeah, I wrote what you just read about five years ago right after I first heard of them through headheritage ... not sure what I have, I know I downloaded most of it from one particular blog the name of which escapes me but it shouldn't be hard to find. I like to either pick one or two tunes and space out to them, or put the whole collection on shuffle, although that can break the mood since the sound varies so widely between "albums" ... I think the only "performers" who I have as many hours of music by are Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan ... maybe Jimi Hendrix ...

Heavier Than A Death In The Family is quite brilliant in the right context, havent got anything else of theirs though, could anybody help me out?

Get 'Yodo-Go-A-Go-Go [Flightless Bird]'.

Finally got around to checking them out but, first I want to know why there is a lack of mention for their terrorist bass player.

mizutani is pretty badass, aesthetically too.

I heard '77 Live a few months ago and with my headphones on at a maximum volume all that remained of my brain by the end was a gelatinous, malleable goo that you could probably put in an ice cube tray. Listening to the abridged version Heavier than A Death in the Family right now and I'm getting the same effect (even though it's essentially the same songs as '77 Live bar one... The actual ordering and the lack of "The Last One" make it feel kind of like a different experience entirely).

What a band. I've heard their material diverges off into different genres, too, so if they can keep this hypnotic, brain-melting aesthetic to their music while doing that I know I'm going to be happy with them. Great stuff.

Bump

This band deserves a bit more attention in my opinion...

Anyways... '67-'69 Studio et Live and '77 Live are my favorite releases from them. '67-'69 Studio et Live has some really outstanding heavy psych tracks and a good look into what they were beginning to do as far as noise rock goes... '77 Live is a bit self-explanatory. All you have to do is listen to a few of its tracks to understand how amazing it is. :)

I liked the second song in the original post. What album guys? :)