Acid Mothers Temple
After performing with such bands as Toho Sara, Ohkami No Jikan, Musica Transonic, and Mainliner, Japanese guitarist Makoto Kawabata decided to continue his musical explorations by bringing together likeminded individuals to create trippy psychedelic freak-outs inspired by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Krautrock, and '70s progressive hard rock. Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. (Underground Freak Out) were founded in 1996 as a "soul collective." It's not a commune in the full sense since the members don't all live together, but it is based ...[more]
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The output of Acid Mothers Temple in 2009 continues to be so staggering it's almost literally impossible to keep tabs on each new release -- including limited live recordings, they issue eight to ten in a given year on an astonishing number of labels. The upside for the band is always having something new to sell at shows, while the downsides for AMT fans are numerous. Another downside is quality control. It may indeed be the mission of AMT to document every single studio moment or every gig and re [ read more ]
CD $16.13
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Loops, layered digital delays of didgeridoos, theremin sounds, acoustic guitars, and ambient washes of sound are part and parcel of Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.'s architecture this time out. For example, take the 18-plus-minute "Astral Projection from Holy Shangrila," the first of Interstellar Guru and Zero's two tracks. All of the above elements weave a hypnotic, trippy fantasy before Kawabata Makoto's electric guitar even enters the mix. And when it does, and he's going for [ read more ]
CD $16.13
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VINYL FORMAT. Alien8 Recordings celebrates Acid Mothers Temple's return to North American by honoring them with a new release, their fourth for the label. Made up entirely of new studio recordings that have captured the band in fantastic form, Lord of the Underground: Vishnu and the Magic Elixir captures the band flying at full speed, dishing out three slabs of Turkish-psych-meets-Krautrock, all served up Acid Mothers' Temple style.
LP $21.99
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VINYL FORMAT. Acid Mother's Temple's Glorify Astrological Martyrdom is sure to appeal to the myriad AMT fans who have made Crystal Rainbow Pyramid a new fan favorite. Professionally recorded mega-riffage for a super defined clean sound. Kawabata and company deliver this focused rock explosion full of hyper repetitive heavy hooks and freaked-out, pitched-up vocals. Cover art by Seldon Hunt.
LP $21.99
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VINYL FORMAT. Includes bonus track and comes packaged in a heavy duty tip-on style gatefold LP with artwork by Seldon Hunt! Dark Side Of The Black Moon is the Acid Mothers Temple's follow up to the much loved Recurring Dream And Apocalypse Of Darkness. Focused riffing, super fidelity recording and proggy psych sounds mixing Pink Floyd, fuzzed out wah guitars and sounds from the cosmos.
2xLP $25.99
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Dark Side Of The Black Moon is the Acid Mothers Temple's follow up to the much loved Recurring Dream And Apocalypse Of Darkness. Focused riffing, super fidelity recording and proggy psych sounds mixing Pink Floyd, fuzzed out wah guitars and sounds from the cosmos.
CD $14.99
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Psychedelic, space-rock music, free-form and experimental. An experience you can't miss! Interstellar Guru And Zero is one of the most chaotic albums by Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. The album is only two tracks long and gives form to this concept and represents a lucid hallucination which will blow away the listener in one of the weirdest trips ever. "Astral Projection From Holy Shangrila" is the first part of this trip, twenty minutes of cosmic explosion intense an [ read more ]
CD $14.99
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Recurring Dream And Apocalypse Of Darkness is by far the heaviest Acid Mothers Temple record yet. So heavy, in fact, that Kawabata Makoto jokingly said 'the album is really heavy, maybe a bit like Sunn O))). hahahaha.' Both the CD & LP feature remarkable art work by Seldon Hunt.
CD $13.99
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Acid Mother's Temple's Glorify Astrological Martyrdom is sure to appeal to the myriad AMT fans who have made Crystal Rainbow Pyramid a new fan favorite. Professionally recorded mega-riffage for a super defined clean sound. Kawabata and company deliver this focused rock explosion full of hyper repetitive heavy hooks and freaked-out, pitched-up vocals. Cover art by Seldon Hunt.
CD $14.99
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