Like THE MELVINS, KAWABATA MAKOTO and his Acid Mothers Temple continually release challenging music that is striking in its originality and integrity. Also like The Melvins, they have a distinct style all their own that others may try to imitate, but can never really pinpoint.
According to Wikipedia, this is the 33rd studio album by AMT in their Melting Paraiso U.F.O. incarnation, which means that, by now, fans should know what to expect and know that it will be of the highest quality.
“In O” opens the album with eight minutes or so of synthesizer explorations reminiscent of the non-sequenced KLAUS SCHULZE tracks before it builds to a driving spacerock gait that could easily have been inspired by HAWKWIND‘s “You Shouldn’t Do That.” In contrast, “In A” is a much more experimental track made up of a constant drone, insane babbling voices (one that even sounds like the voice CLAUDIO SIMONETTI used in the soundtrack for DARIO ARGENTO‘s Phenomena aka Creepers) and occasional blaring noise that could be guitar, Moog or just plain over-modulation (or all three). “In Z” continues the experimental direction with spacey synthesizers dancing around a repeating guitar (or possibly bass) lick like electrons around an atom. Finally, “In ∞” returns to the mind-expanding spacerock. The first twelve minutes could be a more acid-fueled version of MILES DAVIS‘ “Zimbabwe” from Pangaea, until the gears are shifted into hyperspace and the track ends with six and a half minutes of a hypnotic two-chord riff that sets the course for the Andromeda galaxy.
Certainly, anybody interested solely in strict song structures and catchy hooks would probably want to kill themselves after being subjected to the first ten minutes of the first track, but for those of us who like music that is so far out of the box it’s in the next solar system, this is a magnificent album.
