J.A. Seazer Tenjosajiki Japan Psych Baramon Private NM

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J.A. SEAZER with TENJOSAJIKI: “BARAMON”

Label: Tenjosajiki Records

Label Number: Tenjosajiki Records – 1972/2002

Long gone and deleted 2nd issue of this originally ultra rare private press issue that came out in 1972. This is the exact reissue that came out in 2002, edition of 300 copies, long gone, deleted.

GRADING:

LP Record: Near Mint

Jacket: Near Mint

Insert: Near Mint

Some words on this issue: TENJOSAJIKI: “Baramon” (Gay Revolution) (Tenjosajiki Records – 1972/2002) 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 300 copies, which sold out in a matter of weeks. So here is a chance to grab a vinyl copy of this historical document.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). Top copy.

Our grading scale: Mint/ Near Mint/ Excellent/ VG++/. We don’t sell anything below VG++. VG++ grade is basically that the record has some scuffs and has wear. Excellent: record has hardly no visible defects and is preserved with care and attention, the condition most collectors take pride in to file away. Near Mint: a dash below mint, just perfect. Mint: like new.

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