Les Rallizes Denudes - The OZ Tapes

PUT THIS IN YOUR DEN for an unearthed classic from the Japanese underground. OZ was a tiny club that, while only open for a year, had a CBGB's like impact in Tokyo culture. Emerging from OZ, LRD was the most popular and influential band from this scene. With a longstanding impact on Japanese rock music and a distinctive local sound, this is an extremely important psychedelic rock album that any fan of the genre absolutely needs in their collection. Available on "almost transparent blue" wax Operating out of a small upstairs space just around the corner from the train station in the Kichijoji neighborhood of Tokyo, OZ was a scruffy, DIY affair that lasted not much more than a year. Between June 1972 to September 1973, the café and performance space became the nerve center for the city’s burgeoning underground and counterculture set. Hadaka No Rallizes, aka Les Rallizes Dénudés, the psychedelic noisemakers originally from Kyoto, was one of the marquee names at OZ. Led by the enigmatic Ta