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The OZ Tapes
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2LP Black $38

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  • Available on Black & Colored Vinyl (LITA Exclusive Variant Pressed on Almost Transparent Blue)
  • First-ever official worldwide LP release by Les Rallizes Dénudés
  • Fully authorized by The Last One Musique
  • 2LP in a craft board jacket including a 12 page liner notes book with archival photos
  • Notes by Yosuke Kitazawa with an intro from OZ manager Minoru Tezuka
  • Remastered from the original analog tapes by Makoto Kubota
  • NO SALES IN ASIA

Description

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 cafe 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 Takashi Mizutani, the now-legendary band was one of the earliest bookings for the venue, and would ultimately close out OZ Last Days, a raucous five-day blowout to celebrate the short but wonderful world of OZ. To commemorate the occasion, recordings made at OZ were released as OZ DAYS LIVE, a private press 2LP set featuring Miyako Ochi, Acid Seven,...

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Preview Tracklist

  • OZ Days
  • A Shadow on Our Joy
  • Wilderness of False Flowers
  • White Awakening
  • The Last One_1970
  • Memory is Far Away
  • Vertigo otherwise My Conviction
  • The Last One_1970 (Version 2)