…or rather, lend your ears (if you dare) to the first officially licensed album of the pioneering psychedelic rock master Takashi Mizutani, who died in 2019, spanning a 50 year career after forming the iconic band Les Rallizes Dénudés. A rich supernova of soul shattering (and often eardrum shattering) wailing guitar feedback that has been described as entering a state of nirvana without benefit of hallucinogens, and hailed by followers of Jimi Hendrix and Grateful Dead.
NPR outlines Mizuyani’s wildly chaotic perfectionism and reviews his posthumous album The Oz Tapes.