LSD March - Empty Rubious Red

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4...according to our Phil on Thu 31 May, 2007.

On to LSD March who have an LP out on the rather good Tequila Sunrise label. Previous releases on the label are Jack Rose, Micah Blue Smaldone and Meg Baird which will give you an idea of where the label is pointing. Empty Rubious Red is some Japanese dude making fragile sounds with his voice and guitar. It's so delicate it sounds like the worlds most delicate crisp. That frickin' delicate alright. Fortunately it comes on super thick vinyl in a super thick cardboard sleeve and I'm thinking it's somewhere in between those ace Aritomo records from the other week and something else less floaty. It's all very sincere sounding, long and drawn out and really quite miserable. A recipe for a lovely lovely thing if you ask me.

In order to stay ahead of the curve, the next tequila sunrise release will be a new lp, empty rubious red, by japanese avant-pysch artists lsd march. for those of you already living a couple of years ahead of the rest of us, you will know that this will be the fifth full length by this band, and that it was originally released in 2006 on their own white elephant imprint (a longer version of empty rubious red was reissued later that year as a limited edition cd on the incredible archive label), both versions sold out in about a minute. It's actually more like a solo outing by lsdm front-man shinsuke michishita (on voice, guitar, bass and percussion), accompanied on two tracks by legendary drummer ikuro takahashi (high rise, fushitsusha, tamio shiraishi, kosokuya, che-shizu, maher shalal hash baz, nagisa ni te, etc). most of the songs here are intimate, in-your-inner-ear ballads, hypnagogic and melancholic, achy hangovers from the third velvets LP – sorrowful birds on the last tree in the universe, thinking themselves into being, then forgetting themselves, then remembering again. except for the title track, that is – an 8-minute doppler-effect trance that gets you wasted on polonium 210, sets the dials of the kabbalah for the heart of the sun, and clicks "send.". We could describe the overall sound here as late night psych. European manufactured 180 gram lp housed in a stoughton old-style sleeve with j-card style obi. Limited edition of 1000 (200 direct to lsd march/japan, 800 available for the rest of the world via tequila sunrise).

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