Modern Bible

Independent shop in BallardDirections

Available from Light in the Attic Records when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

One of the most mythical and sought-after albums to come out Japan in the 1970’s! Modern Bible is monster of an acid folk album confronting the legacy of colonial rule, consumerism, and an overall sense of powerlessness shared among students in the mid-1970s in the wake of the ’68 revolution. Gekidan Buraiha was a theater company, a part of the so-called Angura scene (an abbreviation of the Japanese pronunciation of “underground”) that included notable troupes such as Tenjo Sajiki, led by writer