Acid Mothers Temple

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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]

 

 

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.

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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 ]

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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.

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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.

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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.

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"Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Live" recording was made in Japan in December '01 using digital 16-channel recording (so the sounds aren't like the last two live LPs; this is more like studio recording quality). This live performance uses twin drummers: IchirakuYoshimitsu (ex-AMT/Nishinihon/ISO) and Koizumi Hajime (the original drummer in AMT; he also was the original Mainliner drummer who played on "Mellow Out"). This concert was Ichiraku's last performance in AMT. The line up was Cotton,   [ read more ]

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This particular studio release came described as one of the band's heaviest efforts yet, recorded by the compact five-person lineup of 2002 in May of that year. Lead guitar maniacs Makoto Kawabata and Hiroshi Higashi, bassist Atsushi Tsuyama, drummer Hajime Koizumi, and singer/keyboardist Cotton Casino incarnate Acid Mothers Temple on this one, and the result is, unsurprisingly, mayhem. Given all of the various releases and spin-off efforts in existence, to be sure, selecting this one as a   [ read 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 ]

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Starless and Bible Black Sabbath is the third album from Acid Mothers Temple to appear on the Canadian Alien8 label, but the first to appear in their new incarnation as Acid Mothers Temple and the Cosmic Inferno. Recorded March through May of 2005 at their home studio in Japan, this one is in keeping with the new band's commitment to "heavy coherency." The title and cover suggests two rock classics: King Crimson's Starless and Bible Black and Black Sabbath's self-titled debut album.    [ read more ]

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Recorded at Reckless Records on the night before September 11, 2001 where the band is introduced by saying that they are playing in Detroit at the Detroit Contemporary the next night, this CD is a reissue of the out of print Eclipse LP of the same name. There are significant differences in appearance, however, in that the LP version boasted the track titles "La Novia Gentle Lift Off," and "Crash and Burned La Novia." The CD's two track titles are "Space Age Ballad/La Novia (Including in E)," and {&   [ read more ]

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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 ]

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Important, the Newburyport, MA label that issued this 2007 release by Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O., claims that this is a "very clean sounding" AMT release. They're right; it is. In fact, it may be the best-produced recording by the prolific ensemble in its long history. Fans of the unit have grown used to the speaker-bleeding distortion and bust-out volumes, which have often led to hearing less differentiation on their recordings than is desirable -- even to them. Yet the clean   [ read more ]

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