High Rise

Ten blistering performances from Tokyo’s legendary High Rise. Recorded live in 1992, Disturbance Trip is a previously unreleased, distortion-saturated gem from the same era as their third studio album, Dispersion. Guitarist Munehiro Narita’s unmatched ability to channel the pure energy / spirit of rock n’ roll and hard psychedelia is on full display; his riffs are heavy and propulsive, his solos dizzying and transcendent. Nanjo’s fuzz bass lays down hyper-mobile lines that swing and thunder as he intones lyrics that echo in the distance.

Disturbance Trip is the first release on the resurrected La Musica Records, Asahito Nanjo's mystifying, apocryphal cassette label that started in the 1990s and documented the most obscure reaches of the Japanese psychedelic underground.