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ONCE UPON A TIME IN SEOUL

by LEATHER JACKET 가죽 재킷

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5502 SALEM WALK IN COLLABORATION WITH SUPERIOR VIADUCT PRESENTS:
LEATHER JACKET 가죽 재킷 - ONCE UPON A TIME IN SEOUL

This LP documents the remnants of the only known proper studio material from Seoul's underground champions of hypnotic psychedelic noise LEATHER JACKET, recorded 1978 in Tokyo, Japan. Per urban legend, the songs presented here came out of a session intended for a triple-disk-LP on Sony. The record was scrapped and the band's contract was terminated on account of the label's unwillingness to put out an album with such an egregious length. Financial strains brought on by outstanding fees from Sony made it increasingly impossible to afford recording in studios, forcing the band to focus solely on their legendarily blistering live performances.

The original 1/4" multitrack tapes were impressively restored by the fine folks at 5502 Salem Walk, who unknowingly bought them in an auction and reportedly left them to sit in their garage for years before bothering to play them.

"...a landmark artifact from the burgeoning years of Seoul's brief-lived TOMORROW SOUNDS movement. Comparisons to Japan's Les Rallizes Dénudés are unavoidable -- seasoned listeners won't be surprised to learn that rhythm guitarist and Kyoto expat Ken 'Charles Bronson' Suzuki is fabled to have once taken lessons from the man Mizutani himself -- but put your disbelief aside for those fifteen minutes for an opportunity to rediscover some of the most groundbreaking and revelatory new music to come out a bygone era."
-David Toop, The Wire magazine

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released April 8, 2020

DUSTY - SWITCHBLADE GUITAR
CAPTAIN SPYKE - CHAIN GUITAR
KEN "CHARLES BRONSON" SUZUKI - BURNOUT GUITAR
POWER DRUM - POWER DRUM
MR BONE - ELECTRIFYING VOCAL

RECORDED 1978 AT MARS STUDIO TOKYO
MASTERED EDITED RECOVERED 2019 AT 5502 SALEM WALK

© & ℗ 1978 LEATHER JACKET, all rights reserved.
cat no. [SV179]
Released under license to Superior Viaduct PO Box 193563 San Francisco, CA 94119 USA
and 5502 Salem Walk

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