TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS 2-LP PSYCH-PROG-RALLIZES DENUDES

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TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS

 LP

Columbia / P-Vine

w/obi strip 

Opus magnum of the legendary Taj Mahal Travellers, Takehisa Kosugi, Hirokazu Sato, Tokio Hasegawa, Ryo Koike & co create a unique sonic mayhem .

Some info on the release:  Legendary opus magnum from the legendary super group Taj Mahal Travellers, exact re-issue of their legendary double album from the 70's. Originals fetch 1.500$, if you're not into that kind of sums of money, this re-issue is for you. The group's instrumentation consists of electronically-treated acoustic instruments, oscillators and sheet metal (suntool), and heavily relies on time-delay effects to create psychedelic, expansive dronest. Taj Mahal Travellers played lengthy improvised jams in a far-eastern approach to music as a living organism, an intense electronic processing of instruments and voices; they improvised all over the world (India, Iran, UK, Sweden), on deserted shores, small galeries, coffee bars, lonely hills (almost wherever power supply was available) and the result was this incredible album of cosmic bliss. The sound is floating like coming from distant loudspeakers, coloured back and forth from hand made electronic devices and delayed throug echo machines. Bass, harmonica, trumpet, synthesizer, oriental percussions are added. There are no interractions between the musicians, each one is having his own inner discussion with the instrument, however the result of merging them all together is a pulsating feedback of complex sound waves. Music drifts slowly like autumn sunsets or a peacefull lovemaking offer. 

Here is the history of the group: "Takehisa Kosugi is a hippie become avantgarde composer. Born in Tokyo in 1938, and graduated in 1962 at the Tokyo University of Arts, Kosugi founded the Japanese equivalent of the Fluxus movement, called "Group Ongaku", a group devoted to improvisation and multi-media performances. In 1969 he formed the Taj Mahal Travelers, a psychedelic-rock group that played lengthy improvised jams that can be summarized in three principles: a Far-eastern approach to music as a living organism, an intense electronic processing of instruments and voices, a semi-mathematical overlapping of frequencies. Basically: LaMonte Young on acid. Kosugi mainly played violin. He was on the road with this group between 1971 and 1972, traveling in a Volkswagen minibus from Holland to the Taj Mahal itself. Two albums were made out of that experience: Taj-Mahal Travellers (Sony, 1972), also known as July 15 1972 (reissued in 2002 by Drone Syndicate) and performed by a seven-unit line-up, and Taj Mahal Travellers (Denon, 1983), also known as August 1974 (reissued in 1998 by P-Vine), four tracks over two LPs performed by eight players, plus one side (two tracks) of the legendary double-LP Live At Oz (Oz, 1973 - OZ Days, 2001), which also includes live performances by obscure Japanese musicians Acid Seven, Minami Masato and Hadaka no Rallizes." The Taj Mahal Travellers are also featured in the Nurse with wound list of influences. For those into A-Musik, Agencement, Anode Cathode, Brast Burn, East Bionic Symphonia and Dada, Fushitsusha, GAP, Yoshio Hayakawa, Keiji Haino and Jo Kondo, Magical Power Mako, Akio Suzuki, Toru Takemitsu, Toshi Ichiyanagi and Michael Ranta, Tolerance, Vasilisk and Les Rallizes Denudes.

Condition: Vinyls lie in mint condition, look crystal clear and play perfectly, while cover lies in mint-condition, with minor corner bending.

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