![]() ![]() “I never thought this could touch foreigners’ hearts so deeply,” Kubota said in a recent interview from his home in Tokyo. Yet decades later, younger musicians now press Kubota for any information about the band, and fans around the world who likely cannot understand Mizutani’s cryptic Japanese lyrics declare on social media that his music has changed their lives. Led by the enigmatic Takashi Mizutani, the band emerged in the late-’60s haze of psychedelia and radical student politics with a scorchingly loud sound, though it ceased performing in 1996 and the handful of raw recordings the group released went out of print long ago. Makoto Kubota is still amazed by the continuing appeal of his old band, Les Rallizes Dénudés.Īn accomplished producer and bandleader in Japan, Kubota spent just a few years in the early 1970s playing with the Rallizes, which by the usual measures of rock success barely made a blip. ![]() To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. ![]()
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