During the past few stops on our musical journey, we have gone from Vietnam to Denmark to Zambia. Today we are in Japan to enjoy a wild theatrical electric yelling riffing composition by the otherworldly J.A. Seazer.
Recorded with his band Akuma no le, which means House of the Devil, Haha Koishiya Sangoshou opens with a winding instrumental section that evolves from a clanking percussion and guitar pile up to, at 0:50, a slow series of guitar and bass riffs that rise up and down the neck like canal locks. The singer comes in at 1:20, sounding harmless enough, but by 1:37 he is in a wailing freaked out panic. The guitar stabs at him like a burning poker and he runs the gauntlet again.
At 2:17 he is joined by a woman until once again the start of his journey is recycled. After another trip with the woman at 3:30, the man passes out from sheer exhaustion and the woman sits quietly by his side and comforts him. At 4:11 the guitar takes one more slash at the whole scene before the curtain falls.
Haha Koishiya Sangoshou is taken from the soundtrack album Kokkyō Junreika (A Pilgrimage Across National Borders). The album is a condensed release, a sort of greatest hits, of what was originally a five hour theatrical production by director Shuji Terayama and the Tenjō Sajiki performance troupe.
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