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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2021 23:14:48 GMT
An interesting watch..
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Post by DarknessFish on Jun 12, 2021 8:13:00 GMT
I'll watch all that later, I skipped to the end to see if there was any news of Mizutani's continued existence. I hope Makoto was telling the truth, whether there's another musical appearance or not.
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Post by DarknessFish on Jun 12, 2021 8:16:03 GMT
This is the last known footage of him, though he did perform one later gig.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Jun 12, 2021 14:49:56 GMT
I have long wondered if whole mystique angle of Razilles/Mizutani has all been marketing: the obscurity of the music/story, the Jandek-like hazy/fuzziness of the music, pictures, movies, videos, etc., the generational degeneration of the oft bootlegged music (he's the original William Basinski!), his look: the sometimes wig like hairiness, his periodic reappearances (with generally good equipment). How does he live? Is he a generic office worker when we don't see him?
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Post by DarknessFish on Jun 12, 2021 16:20:00 GMT
Could well just be a generic office worker, Jandek was something quite ordinary like that, iirc. We never hear enough about day-jobs of the avant-garde. I know Bill Orcutt is a fellow software engineer.
But it's hardly marketing, to never release anything. Or very poor marketing.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2021 9:03:19 GMT
It's hard to know what is true or not. Even the music may be them , all or part of the time. Whatever the truth is the sounds that were released under the Denudes name is always of interest. Whatever Mizutani does for money or why he or others are wilfully tight lipped and every chase of the truth arrives at the same dead end just adds to the myth. It's a great story and the music is fantastic. I once left a CDR on a bus with listen to this written on the disc. I wonder if anyone did and what their reaction was.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Jun 14, 2021 13:20:12 GMT
Indeed, this isn't about selling product. Product that is not really accessible. It's been about creating a myth, legend, mystique. It's from a time when rock and roll was the crossroads and held the times' zeitgeist.
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Post by DarknessFish on Oct 21, 2021 17:50:50 GMT
Mizutani seems to have passed away two years ago, though in typical Rallizes fashion, information is very vague and scant.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Oct 21, 2021 20:32:14 GMT
Looking forward to the mysterious comeback.
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Post by DarknessFish on Nov 6, 2021 8:59:43 GMT
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