les rallizes denudes

teague hit me with another mp3 cd of japanoise last night: a boris 7", gtrist kimio mizutani's prog-psych alb a path through haze from '71, a band called helpful soul that i don't know anything about just yet, and four, count 'em, four albs by les rallizes denudes, a shadowy, mysterious mob that emerged from kyoto university in '67. they had ties to the radical japanese red army faction and a bandmember was involved in the hijacking of a jet to north korea. they recorded sporadically, but continued performing right up to '96, and from the track i'm listening to ("smokin' cigarette blues" from 67-69 studio et live), it sounds like jon's right when he sez les rallizes are where high rise, mainliner, fushitsusha, et al. go their inspiration. violent, chaotic stuff -- it's hard to believe that these guys were contemporaries of hendrix 'n the velvets and actually predated blue cheer; it's enough to make one wonder how much these guys were really influenced by those aforementioned western acts, or what wellspring of weirdness they were tapped into, because this stuff sounds advanced for _now_. yowww!!!