J.A. Caesar

J.A. Caesar (also spelled J.A. Seazer and J.A. Ceaser) may be the pseudonym for any Tokyo music composer that has been associated with creating music for numerous theatre and film tasks because the very early ’70s. His music is really a radical combination of intensifying rock and roll, traditional Japanese theatre music, and Magma-inspired Zeuhl music. Actually, Caesar’s flirtation with Zeuhl lengthy predates the comparable Zeuhl affects on many later on Japanese organizations like Ruins, Bondage Fruits, and Koenji Hyakkei. In the early ’70s, Caesar aligned himself with famous experimental theatre movie director Shuji Terayama. Terayama was also a film movie director, poet, designer, and social agitator, and have been composing film screenplays since 1960. Caesar became musical movie director for Terayama’s theatre organization, Tenjo Sajiki, along with the soundtrack designer for some of Terayama’s movies in the first ’70s and onward. Caesar’s 1st appearance on record was using the Tokyo Child Brothers, another experimental theatre troupe created by Yutaka Higashi; Caesar made up some tracks on the 1971 LP DISPOSE OF the Books, Let’s Go in to the Roads (Sho O Suteyo, Machi Deyo). This recording may be the soundtrack to either the film or the play with exactly the same name by Terayama. Another 12 months, the Victor label released Tenjousajiki: Jasoumon, a live documenting of 1 of Terayama’s theatre productions, under J.A. Caesar’s name. Through the entire ’70s and in to the early ’80s, Caesar caused Terayama on theatre events that combined traditional Japanese Noh theatre with experimental intensifying rock. Other information from Terayama’s takes on had been Recital, Kokkyo Junreika (originally released in 1973), Dispatch of Fools (1977) around the Nippon Columbia label, and Shintokumaru around the Victor label another year — each one of these information offering extreme music with strange choruses and rhythms. Caesar also made up the soundtracks for a number of experimental and surrealist movies aimed by Terayama at the moment, including Pastoral Cover and Look for (Den ‘en Ni Shisu) in 1975, that was a contending film within the Cannes Film Celebration. When Terayama passed on in 1983, Caesar overran the movie theater business and renamed it Banyu Inryoku, and even though it has held Terayama’s vision unchanged, not much brand-new was released on record before past due ’90s, when Caesar resurfaced because the soundtrack musician to many anime movies including Revolutionary Young lady Utena as well as the soundtrack to Hiromichi Tannai’s film Pilgrimage of Bloodstream in 2001.