Title: The Acid Mothers Temple And The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. (3 Lp Edition) (2007)
Catalogue ID: SYRE 011
Tracklist: A01 From The Melting Paraiso
A02 The Acid Mothers Prayer
A03 Amphetamine A Go Go
A04 Aum Over Drive
B01 Speed Guru
C01 Zen Feedbacker
C02 Pink Lady Lemonade
C03 Satori LSD
D01 Aunt Ema Blues
D02 Rolling Buzz Fuzz Fucker
D03 Satori LSD
E01 Freak Out Mu
F01 Speed Guru
Virgin 150 gram vinyl
Description: This is the limited edition of 100 copies 3 disk version. It collects the extremely limited edition cassette
material from 1995 - 1997 (AMT-000 AMT-001 AMT-002).
In 1995 the quartet of Kawabata Makoto (Musica Transonic, Mainliner, Toho Sara), Koizumi Hajime (ex. Mainliner,
ex. Seventh Seal), Suhara Keizo (Arijigoku, Rashinban), and Cotton Casino (Mady Gula Blue Heaven) formed a new
group and started to record their improvised jam sessions. The group did not yet have a name at this point in
their existence. A group of social dropouts of every description - musicians, dancers, artists, farmers, channellers,
ex-yakuza, mermaid researchers and professional vagrants - known as the Acid Mothers Temple Soul Collective, had
already begun to coalesce around Kawabata. Several years earlier Kawabata had spent some time in a beatnik commune
in Nagano, but he soon left, having become repulsed by their exclusionary left-wing ideology and hypocritical
ecological activities. In response he had founded his own commune, one without any political ideology or ethics
save that of non-interference in each other's lives. The mission of this "hometown of souls" would be to open its
doors to anyone who was still searching for something in life. Around the same time Kawabata had become involved
in the Tokyo underground scene through his role as guitarist with Musica Transonic. Determined to do something to
introduce the world to the other members of the Acid Mothers Temple Soul Collective, he decided to invite them to
join his as yet untitled new improvising jam band. His old friend Higashi Hiroshi and many other members of the
collective started to participate in the group's recording sessions. This would be the beginning of Acid Mothers
Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. (AMT).
In 1996 a limited edition cassette entitled Acid Mother's Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. (note that the band's
name was spelled with an apostrophe in the beginning) was sold at an event that Kawabata played at. This was the first
release to bear the AMT name, and it included recordings by the original quartet, an early take of "Speed Guru", and
other recordings dating from 1995 and early 1996.
In 1997, Kawabata joined Mainliner on their US and European tour. He took with him two limited edition cassettes
entitled Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. 1 and Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. 2,
which were sold at gigs on the tour. They consisted of recordings from 1995 to 1997, including tracks by the original
quartet with added overdubs and newly recorded tracks. After the tour ended, Kawabata went back to work on these pieces,
mixing and adding new overdubs. These would eventually become the recordings that were released by PSF as the band's
eponymous first album (PSFD-93), so the original cassettes may be considered as "demo" versions of that record.
While these early recordings were released under the AMT name, they were in fact closer in concept to Kawabata's solo
albums. Recordings of improvised jams were manipulated using musique concrete methodology and remade into Kawabata's
personal image of psychedelic music. There was no intention for the group to play live, and in fact there were no gigs
in the first few years. But when the first PSF album was released, Kawabata decided to tour overseas for the first time
in June 1998. Soon afterwards Tsuyama Atsushi joined the group, and began to cement its identity as a live band. The
process of transformation from a Kawabata solo project into a group was one that began around this time and still continues
today.
This compilation reissues most of the early recordings of Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. and makes
them available to a larger audience for the first time.
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