THE TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS : July 15, 1972

'Takehisa Kosugi was a hippie who become an avant-garde composer. Born in Tokyo in 1938, he graduated in 1962 at the Tokyo University of Arts, and then 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 Travellers, 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, and a semi-mathematical overlapping of frequencies. Basically: La Monte 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: one of them this release, July 15, 1972. Unavailable on CD for a considerable time, this important album now enjoys a timely reissue on Bamboo. Includes an English translation of the original Japanese LP insert. Digitally remastered.'



Tracklist
1 The Taj-Mahal Travellers Between 6:20-6:46 P.M. 25:36
2 The Taj-Mahal Travellers Between 7:03-7:15 P.M. 11:15
3 The Taj-Mahal Travellers Between 7:50-8:05 P.M. 13:05

Credits
Contrabass [Electronic], Performer [Suntool, Sheet Iron], Harmonica ? Ryo Koike
Design [Album] ? Yoshiaki Kohyama
Directed By [Assistant Director] ? Hideto Isoda, Kohichi Yosida
Directed By [Director] ? Shigemitsu Ichihashi
Electric Guitar [Electronic Quiter], Percussion ? Michihiro Kimura
Engineer [Electronic] ? Kinji Hayashi
Engineer [Recording] ? Tomoo Suzuki, Y?ichi Maejima
Illustration [Cover Illustration] ? Hideo Yamashita
Producer ? Go Hamada
Trumpet [Electronic], Harmonica, Castanets ? Seiji Nagai
Vibraphone, Performer [Suntool] ? Yukio Tsuchiya
Violin [Electronic], Electronics [Radio Oscillators], Voice ? Takehisa Kosugi
Vocals ? Tokio Hasegawa

Notes
This album was recorded live.
Recorded at Sohgetsu Hall, Tokyo, Japan, July, 1972.
Originally released on LP by CBS/Sony Inc. [Japan] as catalog number SOLM 1.