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タコ・セカンド (ライヴ) --- 2015-10-21

Originally released in 1984. Packaged in a standard jewel case with 16 page booklet of liner notes in Japanese and English. Tracks 1 to 7 recorded live at Hosei University Gakkan Hall Nov. 22, 1982. Tracks 8 and 9 are previously unreleased bonus tracks, recorded live at Doshisha University Gakkan Hall on May 28, 1983. Track 3 duplicates the locked groove at the end of side A of the original vinyl release. Distribution & sales contact: DIW/diskunion <diw@diskunion.co.jp> Tel +81-3-3511-9920 Romanized track titles: 1. Karera Ga Boku Wo Suwaraseru 2. Kyuban No Yubi 3. Chibukure (Endlessumida) 4. Noroi Shibari 5. Noroi Hachi No Su 6. Koutaihei 7. Meneki 8. Hitosarai To Kodomo No Polka 9. Ika TACO: The Alternative Counter-Organization "taco" means "octopus”, "kite" and even "bunion" in Japanese. Bald men or men with shaven heads, and red-faced, staggering drunks are also referred to as "taco". It’s a word that appears in a lot of slang and sayings. "taco" is also the name of the 80s music and performance collective whose performances were like nothing before or since. The Japanese band taco, formed at the beginning of the 80s, is a loose group/collective of varying members that belongs to the post-punk alternative music movement. The network of members was all friends and acquaintances of Harumi Yamazaki, ex-member of Gaseneta and taco’s central member. taco can be described as a band of guerillas who, over the years, continued to connect, collect, interrupt, and scatter while sending out, into the world, music and sounds that can best be described as transient. taco also performed without Harumi and so it is as though the band is an anonymous group of mercenaries. taco’s second album (12" EP) released in 1984 features a live recording of a performance that was held at the end of 1982. taco is a band of indeterminate members which only ever played in one-off performances, but this is an album that reveals a unit whose performance was unusually musically coherent. This is an album which effectively conveys the power of taco’s astounding and legendary live performances, as well as Harumi’s inflammatory, sensational and masochistic presence on stage. Harumi’s mutterings and screams which practically ignore the detached beat confront the audience like an overwhelming groundswell." The following is a description of taco by one of its members following one of its live performances: "taco’s like a project where the indeterminate participants fan each other’s heightened emotions of wanting to wreak personal revenge and retribution. It’s an ecosystem of tangible and intangible mouldy slime which accumulate in order for emotions to be acted out, both indoors in the studio, or outdoors on stage. That’s why the avenger can often end up being the victim."