Over the past few months I’ve been listening to Les Rallizes Dénudés more than just about any other group, thanks largely to the sterling work of the Temporal Drift label. This imprint has collaborated with surviving Rallizes members and associates to release selected recordings from the Rallizes archive, most of them live albums. If there was ever a group whose live performances eclipsed its studio-based work, it was Rallizes. The story goes that lead guitarist and vocalist Takashi Mizutani, the group’s only constant member, was so dissatisfied with their early studio recordings (now reissued on the