天井桟敷 Tenjo Sajiki / 寺山修司 Shuji Terayama / J. A. Seazer - 身毒丸 Shindokumaru Artist_山本直純 Naozumi Yamamoto

天井桟敷 Tenjo Sajiki / 寺山修司 Shuji Terayama / J. A. Seazer - 身毒丸 Shindokumaru Artist_山本直純 Naozumi YamamotoA "spectacle opera on the theme of a sermon passage" is one of Seazer's achievements. Rock, classical, traditional Japanese music, kecak, and other genre crossing musical elements are combined in a bloody tale of a mother's abandonment that mixes the world of medieval tales with prewar Japan. From the opening to "" (Jihi Shinchou), the fusion of taiko rhythms and stringed instruments, the speedy guitar of Takeshi Mori that flows between them, and the

The album art interprets this tension through a series of contrary emotions where wonderment and solitude

and visuals and brings to life a series of fantastical places and disparate worlds

slow-burn funk grooves

“Hoodoo Voodoo Queen” is the Andrews Sisters on a fantasy trip south of the border

I was a guy who knew three chords and recorded in a closet

an album he describes as “organic and woody sounding” with a “psych folk vibe”

"the best sound machine in the East"

which has been played 1 million times on Spotify

woven from a seamless thread of prayers

although compact discs were first introduced seven years earlier it wasn’t until late into the ‘80s that

80 in 2011 and his signing to Aftermath and Interscope the following year

slo-mo chuggers (the "watching the sun come up while suitably saucer eyed" vibes of 'I Love You')