{"product_id":"taj-mahal-travelers-july-15-1972","title":"Taj-Mahal Travelers - July 15, 1972","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sJFVSHlNVPE\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor over half a century, Takehisa Kosugi was one of the most unique and enduring figures in the Japanese underground. As an art student in Tokyo in the early 1960s, he joined the Fluxus-styled performance unit Hi Re Centre and founded the improvisational ensemble Group Ongaku, but his most legendary project was The Taj-Mahal Travelers – a multicellular organism that included Kosugi, Ryo Koike, Yukio Tsuchiya, Seiji Nagai, Michihiro Kimura, Tokio Hasegawa and sound engineer Kinji Hayashi.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWith a penchant for long psychedelic jams (some lasting 12 hours or more) The Taj-Mahal Travelers lived up to their name. Touring in a Volkswagen van across Europe and Asia in the early '70s, they eventually reached the actual Taj Mahal in India. Upon their return to Japan, they held a concert to raise more touring funds and released their very first recordings. Their debut album, July 15, 1972, would extend the band's matter-of-fact titling: all the tracks were named precisely for the times they began and ended.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWith a grab bag of instrumentation (electric violin, double bass, santoor, vibraphone, harmonica, radio oscillators, sheet iron, etc.), The Taj-Mahal Travelers weave together mesmerizing waves of sonic texture. Featuring longtone concepts that Kosugi discovered while working with sound generators in New York in the mid-'60s, July 15, 1972 remains just as much a collective tone poem as psych workout. These leader-less sounds coalesce into a unified whole that feels both subconscious and sublime, as if the waveforms bypass the listener's ears and land directly inside one's synapses.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis first-time vinyl reissue is limited to 750 numbered copies. Comes with poster.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Revolver","offers":[{"title":"LP de vinilo negro","offer_id":37596465954978,"sku":"","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0299\/7534\/7333\/products\/taj-mahal.jpg?v=1611082393","url":"https:\/\/goner-records.com\/es\/products\/taj-mahal-travelers-july-15-1972","provider":"Goner Records ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}