This is the first half of a 10 cd set of High Rises "Psychedelic Atmosphere Beatnik Tour 2000." I will post the other half tomorrow.
The concept is composed with heavy, radical sound and rock'n'roll ideological formation. -Asahito Nanjo
disc 1 High Rise- Boston 3.12.00
http://www.mediafire.com/?bfspl3lxzox
disc 2 Ohkami No Jikan- San Francisco 3.19.00
http://www.mediafire.com/?gmn3rvrwc2j
disc 3 High Rise- Los Angeles 3.20.00
http://www.mediafire.com/?y1dyuz4rxtg
disc 4 High Rise- Philadelphia 3.15.00 & Major Stars Boston 3.12.00
http://www.mediafire.com/?21ddgm9y1xd
disc 5 New York 3.14.00
http://www.mediafire.com/?edz2mzzn0mw
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Psychedelia in Japan
Whatever your preference - the dark complex spaces of Fushitsusha or Kosokuya, the speaker-popping intensity of High Rise, the limpid folk forms of Ghost or Ché-Shizu or the corrosive electronic noise of Masonna and Merzbow - the sounds of the Japanese psychedelic underground have played a key part in recent avant-rock. Defined as much by what they had in common as by what separated them, these artists and their contemporaries share at least a common concern with space. This ranges from the extremes of the annulment of space via sonic density to the creation of new aural spaces from a combination of existing sounds. It's this concern with space along with an interest in improvised or non-composed forms of musical expression that seems to lie at the heart of Japanese psychedelicism.
While psychedelic music in the West was initially defined through association with drugs and altered states of consciousness things are a little different in Japan. Many Japanese musicians producing psychedelic music aim to produce music that will have a profound effect on the listener but they view the music in itself as being powerful enough to achieve this. Some of the most prominent of the musicians are resolutely anti-drugs - Kosugi Takehisa, Haino Keiji, Nanjo Asahito - are all on record with their anti-drug views. For the majority at least it is not an issue that comes up when discussing their music While a few groups make explicit reference to drug culture in their songs or publicity in many cases this seems a calculated image. High Rise is a classic case in point with the band's original title and lyrics chosen as an anti-drugs statement: "The concept was to save the junkies...(the lyrics to our early albums) just say that if you want to take drugs, you're going to have to be prepared to die." (Nanjo Asahito, Opprobrium Issue 3, November 1996). Given the stringent anti-drug laws in Japan and harsh penalties meted out to offenders these attitudes are hardly surprising.
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