Jacks – Vacant World ( ジャックスの世界 ) - 1968
Dark-side acid folk rock with a free jazz drummer. As though the
Velvet Underground recorded their 3rd LP in Japan.
I'd bet a token amount that Mizutani from
Les Rallizes Denudes must have listened to this album, noted the refusal of the band to give interviews, and then copied the lead singers hairstyle. Apparently considered an influential record in Japan, but maybe not as well known in the West, possibly due to everything being sung in their native tongue. That doesn't matter though as the singer is obviously distraught about something or other, and the translated titles give clues, like
Gloomy Flower, In the Broken Mirror, and the title track
Vacant World which was banned from Japanese radio for being "negative". Even a song titled
Love Generation has lyrics like "
Because I don't want to pretend to be alive, Sometimes I pretend to be dead".
Jacks - Marianne