ARTHUR DOYLE MIZUTANI RALLIZES DENUDES 2LP OOP UNPLAYED

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This is the Arthur Doyle/Takashi Mizutani/Sabu Toyozumi "Live in Japan, 1997" double lp released on QBICO records of Italy, now way out of print and UNPLAYED!!  Includes insert! Arthur Doyle doesn't need much of an introduction, as he is a free jazz legend.  For those who don't know, Mizutani and Toyozumi are the guitar and drums of the famed Japanese psych band Les Rallizes Denudes.  This was released in an edition of 450, and as you can tell by the photo, this is the edition that was released in a relatively plain white cover, not a gatefold, and on black vinyl.  Still, you can't find this anywhere anymore and the music is FANTASTIC.  For fans of Arthur Doyle, Les Rallizes Denudes, and great music!!  From the QBICO website:

ARTHUR DOYLE/TAKASHI MIZUTANI/SABU TOYOZUMI- Live in Japan, 1997 (QBICO 09/10) 2LP folder cover, black&red and black&yelloworange vinyls, liner notes by Ilya Monosov, cover artwork by Qbico, 450 copies only + 100 copies only on clear vinyls and psychedelic labels (original cover) + 50 copies only with paste on covers, hand-written letters and insert (clear vinyls) + last issue of 50 copies only with paste on covers, hand-written letters and insert (black vinyls) SOLD OUT

Arthur Doyle- tenor sax, flute, voice/Takashi Mizutani- electric guitar/Sabu Toyozumi- drums

Rec. live November 14, 1997 @ Manda-la2, Tokyo, Japan  

REVIEWS:

Sunday Herald, Edinburgh, 01 June 2003: "As his revelatory performance at this year's Le Weekend festival in Stirling made clear, saxophonist, singer and pianist Arthur Doyle is at his most emotionally devastating when he's on his own and the pure flow of his spirit is unencumbered by any bullshit notions of musicianship. So the idea of hooking him up with a guitarist and drummer -- even if they are two of the most liberated players to come out of the ever-fertile Japanese underground -- is bound to raise pulses in well-stocked record rooms across Scotland. But the news is good. Although the three players rarely operate as an actual trio across the space of these two beautifully presented slabs of vinyl, the exchange of ideas is rapid and advanced and both Takashi Mizutani and Sabu Toyozumi peel back enough to give Doyle the kind of space he needs to really cut rug. A legendary recording, Live In Japan 1997, has been circulating as a cassette on the collector's scene for many moons. Doyle's visit to Japan that year brought many of his acolytes out of the woodwork and as well as the gig with Mizutani and Toyozumi, the saxophonist hooked up with both Japanese underground guitar god Keiji Haino and Boredoms guitarist Seiichi Yamamoto while he was there. Mizutani is a fantastic guitarist, although here he isn't quite as extended as he is with his own group, mythic psychedelic rockers Les Rallizes Denudes. Drummer Toyozumi puts in a particularly muscular performance, trading in the kind of spatial acrobatics and air-curdling techniques he used to temporally dislocate recordings by Peter Brotzmann and Masayuki Takayanagi in favour of a more stumpy, rock-based approach, a working method that more than compliments Doyle's spare folk melodies. As usual, Doyle weaves motifs from his major works throughout the set but it's that voice, so completely unguarded emotionally and so beautifully bent, that'll set your heart on end."

David Keenan

see also The Wire- June 2003 issue 232: review by Alan Cummings and

French mag revue&corrigee, Sept. 2003 issue, review by Michel Henritzi