Band : Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO
Album Title : Interstellar Guru And Zero
Label : Homepathic Records
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Release Date : 02/06/2009
Review : CD

Acid Mothers Temple is a completely freak out japanese neo-hippie tribe led by the guitarist Malato Kawabata (partially known for previous works published at the end of the 1970s). The band were formed in 1996 under the name Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O (Underground Freak Out). They started their career playing perpetual psychedelic jams very closed to Amon Duul II and Gong at their most gorgeous spacey rock moments. Since 1997 until now AMT have been one of the most prolific rock bands in term of CDs production. Their catalogue contains more than fifty albums (including different collaborations, with Kinski, David Aellen, Circle) in less than twelve years.

After an introductory shamanistic voice ritual Interstellar Guru And Zero commences with “Astral projection from holy shangrila” - a cacaphonic sound exploration piece with ambience, drones, bells, explosive fuzz guitars and sitar. The varied layers of sound evolve very noisely over 20 minutes. The title track is a 39 minutes airy synth mellow ambient piece.

All in all, another disappointing release from these Japanese madmen, cuz I would still like to hear them delve back into a bit more of the space/kraut rock leanings of their first albums.

60/100

Cosmicmasseur.