Tenno - Original 1997 Japanese Org label 7-track LP - Incl. Insert

Rare 1997 Org label 7-track LP - a severely limited reissue of Tokyo based avant-garde duos sole 1980 ALM/ Kojima label delivered effort - keywords could easily be lo-fi, drone, psychedelic - a dash of Velvets, slight Ono-esque vocals. The Org reissue features two bonus live tracks.

Noise was Reiko Omura and her future husband Tori Kudo - now both core members of deep underground Tokyo psychedelic-weird combo Maher Shalal Hash Baz. The material on 'Tenno' is however solely written by Reiko.

"Reiko's compositions are long one-finger, one-note droning pieces, dominated by an organ - sounds like a cross between Fisher-Price and chord - played in an ostensibly very childlike manner, for up to 10 minutes at a time. Reiko occasionally adds chimingly out-of-tune half-enunciated vocals that further add to the untutored anti-method glow, producing a gushing flow of wafting sound that's some way beyond rationalization. Historically and contextually it's a most startlingly display a sound so 'simple' and 'primitive' that it makes perfect sense that no one's thought of it before or since. Impossible to guess how this would have been quantified in 1980, as even today it sounds completely and utterly "out of time". Ultra-Japan-naive, for the consumer who'd rather be referred to as "guilt-stricken" than "guilt-ridden"" - Nick Cain, The Wire

Vinyl has custom picture labels - released with yellow and purple tinted photographic artwork - complete with fold-out master tape technical notes sheet, manufactured limited to 300 copies.

Condition: VG+ (Vinyl)/VG++ (Labels)/VG++ (Cover):
Vinyl is overall bright and shiny - has a few mm's mark on Side 1 which inflicts 8 - 10 clicks ranging from barely listeable to not so sharp ones - otherwise only hints of faint sleeve wear. Side 2 has a very few faint marks - looks like pressure marks - ultralight. Vinyl is overall graded straight VG+.
Insert is mint, cover near mint with hints of superficial creasing, a single lower front spine corner area wrinkle and a very marginal lower opening corner dent.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1 Der Tod
2 Wasser

Side 2:
1 Die Erde Ist Blau
2 Tenno
3 Schaf
4 Studio Jam, Tokyo, August 12, 1982
5 Tokyo Rockabilly Club, December 15, 1979

Written by Reiko Kudo

Credits
Reiko Kudo/Reiko Omura - Vocals, Guitar, Trumpet
Tori Kudo - Organ, Drums

Additional Musicians:
Toshiko Watanabe - Drums (Wasser)

Technical Credits:
Fumio Kosakai - Recording Engineer (Live tracks)