ACID MOTHERS GONG - 'Live In Nagoya' CD (Vivo Records)
A live collaboration between legendary psychedelic-space-rock band GONG and the not less respectable Japanese ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE. Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth, Josh Pollock, Kawabata Makoto, Higashi Hiroshi, Tsuyama Atsushi and Yoshida Tatsuya. Together they form Acid Mothers Gong. Recorded at Nagoya TOKUZO on 9th April 2003. An hour-long psychedelic blow-out of epic proportions. Essential.
UK 12£
Europe 13£
World 14£
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ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE COSMIC INFERNO - 'Pink Lady Lemonade - You're From Outer Space' CD (Riot Season)
The first AMT studio recordings since the addition of Pikachu, drummer and vocalist with Osaka grenade-girl duo Afrirampo. The popular AMT standard "Pink Lady Lemonade" showcases a 21st century acid rock update on the 60s San Francisco psychedelic sound. The Cosmic Inferno crew give PLL a new lease of life and reinvent it as a trippy / chilled out monster. As it rolls on, they sing - adding new riffs and taking it to the stars and back. This really could be AMT's first 'summer album'. Unlike previous Cosmic Inferno albums - this one is more out there. But when it does finally soar, Kawabata's guitar has never sounded so alive. "Pink Lady Lemonade, You're from space, You're sooooo sweeeeeeeeet!"
UK 12£
Europe 13£
World 14£
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ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O. - 'Acid Motherly Love' CD (Riot Season)
Now firmly fixed to a solid 4 piece (Tsuyama Atsushi, Higashi Hiroshi, Shimura Koji and Kawabata Makoto) with added guest vocalists, AMT return for yet another out-there ride through their weird and psychedelic world. Guitars howl, riffs grow bigger with each minute and brains get fried along the way. Recorded under falling ash and burning roof tiles, 'Acid Motherly Love' features every dimension of their legendary underground sound - from wild riff heavy jams, to quieter acoustic passages and spoken monologues, all capped by the trance inducing 15 minute-plus epic 'Santa Sanrodriguez'. Artwork features the obligatory naked Japanese babes in all their finery. God Bless AMT!
UK 12£
Europe 13£
World 14£
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ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O. - 'Minstrel In The Galaxy' CD (Riot Season)
The AMT line up for this album features the core trio of Makoto Kawabata, Atsushi Tsuyama, Hiroshi Higashi and new permanent drummer (ex-Mainliner man) Hajime Koie. The free jazz style drumming from Hajime has helped give AMT their sense of improvisation back, which gives that great loose feel they have that takes them off on tangents and makes each new record that little bit different from the last. They’re joined on this album by Japanese underground queens Afrirampo. Musically this album is a slight departure for AMT, sounding darker and more stripped down that any previous AMT release. The title track alone lasts a staggering 41 minutes.
UK 12£
Europe 13£
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ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE SWR - 'SWR' CD (Very Friendly)
Acid Mothers Temple, formed in 2003, changed their name to Acid Mothers Temple SWR for this release. The Japanese Psych-Rock group features the trio: Yoshida Tatsuya (Ruins, Zeni Geva), Tsuyama Atsushi (Acid Mothers Temple), and Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple, Tsurubami, Mainliner). This is the same lineup as Seikazoku but Acid Mothers Temple SWR is an entirely different group.
UK 13£
Europe 14£
World 15£
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COSMIC NOISE - 'Issue One' Magazine
First issue of this UK fanzine dedicated to Japanese Noise / Rock / Psych / Experimental music. Features interviews with: Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple, Mainliner, Tsurubami), TsuShiMaMiRe and Ryuki Akira, plus features on Boris, BoaDrum77, the Tzadik label (Melt Banana, Mono etc), women in the Japanese Rock / Avant-Garde / Metal scene and Nihonjinron (Japanese culture / identity). Also includes a releases / live section. A5 xerox with full-colour cover.
UK 4£
Europe 5£
World 6£
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JENNIFER GENTLE & KAWABATA MAKOTO - 'The Wrong Cage' CD (A Silent Place)
Re-release of "The Wrong Cage", the superfreaky, acid rock album that introduced Italian psych-pop mavericks Jennifer Gentle to the rest of the world, leading to their subsequent Sub Pop signing. Originally self-released in 2002, "The Wrong Cage" saw the young Italian quartet join forces with Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple) for a live album that captured the band at it's most ferocious. Over 30 minutes of wonderful sonic carnage: two long, ultra-heavy guitar freakouts plus a eerily beautiful solo sarongi track played by Kawabata. All in all, a must for all fans of heavy, guitar-driven psychedelic avant-rock. Inlcudes a bonus track - an 18-minute long version of "Bring Them" from another night of that tour. Digipak.
UK 8£
Europe 9£
World 10£
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KAWABATA MAKOTO - 'White Summer Of Love Dreamer' LP (Blackest Rainbow)
"White Summer Of Love Dreamer" continues to develop Kawabata's experimentation into psychedelic drone music using a variety of instruments. Across the two tracks on this LP, Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple) seamlessly uses acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bouzouki, sarangi, tambura, organ, hurdy-gurdy, electronics, field recording, and his voice to create a stunning soundscape of hazy summer days with cascading repetitive acoustic guitars, swirling drones, channeled vocals. Housed in a deluxe heavyweight tip on old style jacket adorned in photography by Joe Blanchard, and is pressed on heavyweight vinyl. Ltd x 494 copies.
UK 15.00£
Europe 18.50£
World 22.00£
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MAINLINER - 'Mainliner Sonic CD (Collapsar Records)
Reissue of the 1997 album from this Japanese Space-Psych-Rock group, originally released on Mason Jones' Charnel Music. Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple, Tsurubami), Yoshida Tatsuya (Acid Mothers Temple, Ruins, Zeni Geva) and Asahito Nanjo (High Rise). Mainliner Sonic merrily operates under the principle that nothing is not worth doing if not done in ways that make amplifiers sound like they are melting rapidly. Which is something that can be said about a variety of such groups from Japan, but with Makoto Kawabata credited as playing "motor psycho guitar", one can rest assured that it's probably going to sound pretty good! Mainliner find grooves and throttle them until they bleed, with acid freakout chaos. Ltd x 500 copies . Chinese import.
UK 12£
Europe 13£
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MUSICA TRANSONIC - 'Xyosfbigkou' CD (Vivo Records)
Wild and furious psychedelic madness by NANJO ASAHITO (High Rise, Mainliner) on bass, KAWABATA MAKOTO (Acid Mothers Temple) on guitar and YOSHIDA TATSUYA (Ruins) on drums. The musicianship is startline, the teasing, hurtling time signatures crammed into the tightest of spaces. A sparkling production illuminates the clean, abrupt tensions of each track. Ten mind-boggling new compositions from the exceptional trio. Extremely heavy psychedelia at its best! Packaged in a hardback 6-panel digisleeve.
Wolf Eyes embellish the cover of the 7th edition of UK mag Rock-A-Rolla, and are also interviewed along with Lasse Marhaug (Jazzkammer), Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple), Yellow Swans, KK Null, Burning Star Core, Æethenor and Made Out Of Babies. Issue 7 also features a rather good article on the influential Sub Pop label, and includes the usual vast array of music, DVD and live reviews. Always highly recommended!
UK 5.00£
Europe 7.50£
World 10.00£
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TSURUBAMI - 'Tenrin' CD (Vivo Records)
Tsurubami is the latest Acid Mothers Temple off-shoot project, featuring guitarist Makoto Kawabata, percussionist Nobuka Emi and bassist Hiroshi Higashi. It becomes apparent early on in their "Tenrin" recording that what the trio is going after is complete and total annihilation. Sharp pricks of repetitive guitar, raging solos, pounding drums, psychedelic sections full of whacked out guitars and primal drums, metal-hammer, feedback laced mayhem sections. An aural orgasm like you've rarely heard it before!
Shazzula Nebula unleashes her dark masterpiece, the 120-minute Occult movie "Black Mass Rising". Her menacing, otherworldly, ethereal imagery is accompanied by a stellar and eclectic soundtrack, featuring 22 bands: Aluk Todolo, Bobby Beausoleil, Burial Hex, Cultus Sabbati, Demonologists, Ga’an, Horror Illogium, In Zaire, Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple), Kinit Her, L’Acephale, Master Musicians Of Bukkake, Mater Suspiria Vision, Menace Ruine Mourning Ring, Rose Croix, Sayona, Shazzula, SUM OF R, Sylvester Anfang II, The Entrance Band and Yoga. The previously unreleased material is divided into 2 parts: "The Rising (in colour) featuring more Psychedelic music and "The Black Mass" (in B&W) featuring the darkest music. Slimline DVD case with gold print on black booklet. Ltd x 666 hand-numbered copies. ACT FAST!
PAL, Region 0 (will play in all European DVD players).
UK 23£
Europe 24£
World 25£
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VA - 'Grain' CD (Dot Dot Dot Music)
Subtitled "A Compilation Of 99 Short Tracks", this international compilation brings together artists from the ambient, minimal, experimental, noise, abstract and noise scenes including: Asciian (Mason Jones), Brian Lavelle, Burning Star Core, Experimental Audio Research with Delia Derbyshire, Guapo, Günter Müller, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, KK Null, Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple), Paul Smyth (The Jimmy Cakes), Scot Jenerik , Silver Apples, Suspicion Breeds Confidence, Volcano The Bear and MANY more!
