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1	免疫 Voice – 山崎春美*	2:05
2	仏の顔は今日も三度までだった Music By, Arranged By, Performer – ジラーフ・エンタープライズ*Vocals [Vocal] – 栗沢いずみ*	4:56
3	きらら Alto Saxophone – 山本土壺*Bass, Piano, Music By, Arranged By – 工藤冬里*Drums – 成田宗弘*Vocals, Guitar, Percussion – 町田町蔵*	2:27
4	赤い旅団 Arranged By – 遠藤みちろう*Bass – 桃太郎*Drums – 成田宗弘*Guitar – 膿 End 痴郎*Producer – 遠藤みちろう*Vocals – 細川周平*, 香山リカ*Vocals, Guitar – 宮沢正一*Words By – トロッポ*	1:38
5	人捨て節 Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – 篠田昌巳*Backing Vocals [Back Voice] – Non Bass – 今井次郎*Drums – 石渡明廣*Guitar, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Arranged By – 菅波ゆり子*Tenor Saxophone – 山崎春美*Vocals, Lyrics By, Music By – ロリータ順子*	2:52
6	嘔吐中枢は世界の源 Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – 篠田昌巳*Backing Vocals [Back Voice] – Non Bass – 今井次郎*Drums – 石渡明廣*Guitar, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Arranged By – 菅波ゆり子*Tenor Saxophone – 山崎春美*Vocals, Lyrics By, Music By – ロリータ順子*	2:23
7	エニグラム Music By – G.I. Gurdjieff*Piano – 井上重明*Voice – 細川周平*	1:04
8	Intro At 日比谷野音 1981.8.15	0:26
9	な・い・し・ょのエンペラーマジック Backing Vocals [Back Voice] – 山崎春美*Chorus – 高橋文子*, 栗沢いすみ*Lead Vocals [Lead Voice], Chorus – ロリータ順子*Music By, Arranged By, Backing Vocals, Synthesizer, Piano, Drums – 坂本龍一*	4:47
10	鵺 Bass, Clarinet – 山本土壺*Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Cello – 大里俊晴*	4:10
11	人質ファンク (リハビリ・バージョン) Bass – クー*Drums, Handclaps – 佐藤薫*Guitar – 遠藤昌美*Piano – 上野耕司*Synthesizer – 川島バナナ*Vocals – 0123, Zero	5:07
12	非情の生殺し Electronics [Rhythm Box], Synthesizer – 奥田大三*Guitar, Bass – 成田宗弘*Voice [Voices] – 後飯塚遼*	1:47
13	小さなチベット人 Music By – G.I. Gurdjieff*Piano – 井上重明*Vocals – 香山リカ*Voice – 細川周平*Words By – セルゲイ・シェヘロノスキー	3:35
14	宇宙人の春 Bass – 大里俊晴*Drums – T.M*Guitar – J.H*Vocals – 山崎春美*	2:19

Companies, etc.

• Distributed By – Disk Union

Credits

• Artwork [Colour Direction], Design [Label Design] – 宮川隆*
• Illustration [First A Jacket] – 花輪和一*
• Illustration [First B Jacket] – 合田佐和子*
• Liner Notes – 山崎春美*, 湯浅学*
• Liner Notes [English Translation] – Lotte Lawrence
• Narrator [All Narrations] – 細川周平*
• Producer [All Produced], Words By – 山崎春美*
• Remastered By – 中村宗一郎*
• Supervised By [監修] – 山崎春美*, 佐藤薫*

Notes

Packaged in a mini LP-style papersleeve with 16 page booklet of liner notes in Japanese and partly in English.

The following is quoted from the liner notes.

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 first album was released in 1983 and had a huge impact on Japan’s underworld music scene as an anomalous and collaborative album involving various participating artists (the stars of Japan’s underground music scene!) and Harumi, who provided the lyrics. Although each track represents a reverberating conglomeration of sounds created by this transient local network, common to all the tracks is Harumi’s expressive lyrics. This has the effect of transforming all the tracks into a single powerful force which in turn spawns an 'incident' which spreads like a giant ripple. However, because of another incident in which the records were recalled due to the scandal caused by some of the lyrics, only a limited number of people actually own a copy of the album.

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."

Originally released on Pinakotheca on LP in 1983.

Distribution & sales contact: DIW/diskunion
Tel +81-3-3511-9920

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 4 988044 615861
• ASIN: B004JHGHIE

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
PRL#10	タコ*	タコ ‎(LP, Album)	Pinakotheca	PRL#10	Japan	1983

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