LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

•    4CD box set
•    Booklet with liner notes
•    Legendary release
•    Highly collectable
•    Digitally remastered

As news of the new rock music made it to Japan from the UK and the USA - mostly via rock magazines and music papers, with most LPs tough to find even on import - something was lost in translation that allowed it to mutate well beyond its original remit. Rallizes took rock music at its word while visioning it as both unnecessarily complicated and too stupid by far. In doing so they formulated an inspirational blueprint that would go on to have a marked effect on everything that came after them in Japanese underground music. It’s a music that’s as loose as it is uptight, as sophisticated as it is punk-primitive, as radical as it is simplistic. As the old ESP-Disk banner used to promise, truly, you never heard such sounds.

Disc 1: 1974.07.13
 1 Field of Artificial Flower (8:32)
2 Inside Heart (10:04)
3 Otherwise Fallin’ in Love with You  (7:42)
4 Angel (10:01)
5 Otherwise Fallin’ in Love with You (4:50)
6 You Were Known (11:36)
7 The Last One (20:27)

Disc 2: 1975.10.01
 1 Deeper Than the Night  (10:58)
2 Otherwise Fallin’ in Love with You (8:25)
3 Field of Artificial Flower (6:10)
4 White Waking (5:33)
5 A Memory is far (9:10)
6 Improvisation (1:51)

Disc 3: 1977.07.22
1 Dream (5:57)
2 Night of the Assassins (7:30)
3 Field of Artificial Flower (5:16)
4 The Night Collectors (6:31)
5 Flames of Ice (14:06)
6 A Voice of Bird (10:01)

Disc 4: 1980.11.07 (Bonus Disc)
1 Flames of Ice (16:17)
2 Night of the Assassins (18:04)
3 Deeper Than the Night  (14:36)
4 A Memory Is Far (13:29)
5 Deeper Than the Night Part 2 (8:57)