5/10/23 – The Rochester date of Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO’s Meta Reboot Spring Tour 2023, played at the Bug Jar in Rochester, NY. Recorded with a Zoom H2N whilst tripping on 10 tabs of acid. I was front and center, the recording […]
The solo debut by Ghost (Japan) bandleader Masaki Batoh is a great record and I was very happy to find one in the used bins. It opens with excellent covers of Can and Cream before moving through the sparse folk and droning ambient that would become […]
Drinking The Lemonade is an ongoing exploration of Acid Mothers Temples most iconic song- Pink Lady Lemonade. This is post #1 in the series, Levitation Sessions (2021) From it’s birth in the 1996/7 demos to the present day, it’s been performed and recorded countless times. There’s […]
An immensely talented improvisational keyboardist and drummer, I first came across Takedas work through seeing footage of her playing with Keiji Haino, Yoshida Tatsuya, and Richard Pinhas. She has several full improv sessions with Tatsuya available on his bandcamp, and a host of playing credits including […]
A high energy set from the more or less current lineup, recorded live at the 17th Acid Mothers Temple Festival in 2018. CD and digital versions have 4 tracks, the popular vinyl release (also widely shared digitally) has only the 2 longest- Blue Velvet Blues, and […]
Great psychedelic harsh noise that will hypnotize you with its droning walls of sound and careful considerations of sonic manipulation and investigation into psychedelic spaces. Space symphony built of noise arises from signal static and distorted synths. It slowly bubbles and builds, it drags you in […]
I find this improvised session from the now defunct Japanese jammers to be excellent and under rated. It seems to fly under the fans radar, perhaps because of its straight to youtube release several years after recording. This was recording during an entirely sold out tour […]
Two things immediately come to mind when listening to this fantastic record. Firstly, it sounds like Acid Mothers Temple if they ever explored a true jazz-rock fusion sound (as opposed to their typical Sun Ra worship.) Secondly, while the whole ensemble is extremely talented and interesting […]
A lovely ambient album with strong sense of melody thats tempered by a relaxed and fluid idea of rhythm. There’s some strong drones and good low end to the mix. It’s all on “handmade modular synth” and sticks to a consistent pallete across the 5 tracks […]