Acid Mothers Temple & The Psychedelic Freakout

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I bought the new Acid Mothers Tempel album a couple of weeks ago & it's not doing much for me yet. I think the poor recording quality hurts the record, but it seems my main barrier right now is a block I'm having with "pychedelic freakouts."

So anyway, any opinions on Acid Mothers Tempel? Search & Destroy? Is the new one representative? Do you like psychedelic freakouts?

― Mark, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's my main beef with a lot of releases by folks like High Rise, Mainliner, what have you.... live, fucking amazing, not to be missed.. Recordings, hit or miss. I kept "II" by High Rise, but I just plain sold back one of the live High Rise discs, because it just did nothing for me for similar reasons you mentioned.

Try Omoide Hatoba (feat. Seiji, Boredoms guitarist)... "Mantako" is great, and "Kinsei" is alright. Not exactly psych freakouts, but more great kraut inspired rock, cranking the eclectic knob a little, minus the Boredoms bombast.

― Brian MacDonald, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

minus the Boredoms bombast.

Except on "We Are Hello" where it sounds exactly like early Boredoms. Actually, for some cool out there, poppish sounds, I would suggest another Yamamoto project Novo Tono, also featuring Otomo Yoshihide (and others from Ground Zero).

I still haven't really gotten into the AMT, but I did like what I was able to take in of Musica Transonic. Like Jon Spencer BluesX turned to 11,000, so my ears had to rest a while afterwards.

― dleone, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have not heard New Geocentric World, yet (I think that's the new one) and I still haven't picked up many of the "satellite" records yet. I think most of what I have heard is classic, though. Acid Mothers Temple are one of my favorite bands going. The one to hear first is probably Pataphysical Freak Out MU. It was the first one I heard and it sent me scrambling after their other stuff. The sounds are really heavy and damaged. It drones, but I think they do it well. I don't know how the recording quality compares to the new one. It's rough, but I can dig it.

Live at Occident and Absolutely Freak Out (Zap Your Mind) have me seeing stars as well. The only one I've heard that I wouldn't suggest for a first purchase (though I still like it) is La Novia. It's one long spacey Japanese folk song spread out over two sides. It's a nice album and I could throw it on right now, but I didn't find it as immediately engaging as Pataphysical. The CD reissue adds some tracks, but I only have the vinyl so I don't know what they're like.

Yes, I like the psychedelia. The more lost and dark and screwed up sounding, the more I'm apt to like it. According to the world famous blogger Victor Phunkus I have bad taste though, so maybe I shouldn't be trusted.

― Oliver K., Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

I wish they would come back to Toronto. Or Ghost.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I adore both psychedelic freakouts & bombast, so I suppose I'm coming from a completely different place than you, Mark. Not a better place, but a different one. I like every AMT release. My favorites are 'Electric Heavyland' (as the very punny title might suggest, this is their MOST freak-out bombastic offering + the cover offers a further visual 'pun' on King Crimson's 'Earthbound' LP), 'Univers Zen ou de Zero a Zero' (a good cross-section soundwise), & [tie] 'Pataphysical Freakout Mu!', and 'New Geocentric World of...'. The weakest (IMO), though far from 'destroy' status, would probably be 'Magical Power From Mars.'

High Rise comes from a more pure 'rawk' perspective with herculean guitar overload tossed in, and remarkable energy bursts. Once again, I like all of their releases. 'Live' is among my favorites because the guitar sound peels paint & keeps stray dogs away from your house. 'Durophet' is also excellent. It is a live recording that approaches Mainliner's everything-in-the-red-at-all-times approach to recording, mastering & so forth. 'II' and 'Dispersion' are studio efforts that are quite good, and several notches down on the bombastometer from the live ones. 'Psychedelic Speed Freaks' features early, primitive High Rise at their most gnarly. Buyer beware. I'm down with it, myself.

Hope this helps, Mark...

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks John -- in the last two years I've developed a taste for AMT & appreciate them much more than I did in '01.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Oliver - 'New Geocentric World' is far from new. Several things have come out since. That are quite prolific. Try Eclipse Records, Aquarius Records, Twisted Village, or Forced Exposure to update your collection. THey deserve our $$$. :-)

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

OK - now i see the date. *duh*

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

AMT would be fine if Kawabata had some quality control instead of unleasing every note that nudged his noggin (and, on top of that, I prefer Mainliner and Musica Transonica). As for more straight up avant damaged psych, I prefer Ghost. I'd rather wait fiver years for one solid album than have twenty or so half baked albums.

― jack cole (jackcole), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

No that's cool -- always fun to revisit old threads & see what's changed.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

'mellow out' was a very good thing to reissue.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

In C really tuned me in to what they could do. Hearing their sound in the context of something familar got my foot in the door.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

The 2002 CD by Kyoaku No Intention, which is a duo of Munehiro Narita on guitar and Shoji Hano on drums, is recommended to everyone on this thread. Three tracks of total mind-melting overdrive. Stay away from the Dare Devil Band and Tsuburami, though, as both are boring and useless.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, Kawabata seemed a little more relaxed with releases in 2003 than in 2002.

Related, has anyone heard the Psychic Paramount, NYC band with former guys from Laddio Bolocko? Muscular, psych freakouts similar to AMT, but with more drums.

― dleone (dleone), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Soft Canyon anyone?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

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