Acid Mothers Temple - Absolutely Freak Out (Zap Your Mind!!)

Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
Absolutely Freak Out (Zap Your Mind!!)
(February 2001)

allmusic.com:
"Led by the original "speed guru" himself, Kawabata Makoto, Acid Mothers Temple are a 12-piece band this time around, and these 12 people have come up with a bounty of music so magical and infuriating that a single disc would not have been enough. Absolutely Freak Out: Zap Your Mind! is Acid Mothers Temple's highest peak, over two hours of their trademark freakout goodness. "Supernal Infinite Space/Waikiki Easy Meat" is the highlight, starting with a long, spaced-out guitar drone, which finally coalesces when the back-masked drums arrive to save the day. This piece is reminiscent of Acid Mothers Temple's other peak, "In E," their adapted take on Terry Riley's "In C." The track is a complete Krautrock drone freakout that relaxes into a jazzy, spacy-lounge trip. Were there to be a best of AMT, "Supernal Infinite Space" should be the lead track. "Children of the Drab" is notable for its similarity in structure to Faust's "Tapes." The song starts out a slow Pink Floyd-ian blues, then moves into an acid-washed middle section of Floyd's "Echoes," with vocalist Cotton Casino's strange Yoko-esque vocalizing and a menacing guitar. After building up and melting down several times, the band name-drops Stone Cold Steve Austin and then launches into one of its most aggressive pieces, "Surfin' Paris-Texas," which only runs about two minutes before again morphing into another section. The piece is staggering in construction and disorienting in execution. Absolutely Freak Out: Zap Your Mind! is a perfect introduction to this most prolific and intimidating of bands. It showcases the level of diversity and the instrumental acumen of the group. Recommended."

Tracklist:
1. "Supernal Infinite Space / Waikiki Easy Meat" - (19:20)
2. "Grapefluit March / Virgin U.F.O. / Let's Have a Ball / Pagan Nova" - (18:37)
3. "The Incipient Light of the Echoes / Magic Aum Rock / Mercurical Megatronic Meninx" - (19:45)
4. "The Kiss That Took a Trip / Magic Aum Rock Again / Love Is Overborne / Fly High" - (18:35)

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Acid Mothers Temple - In C

Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
In C
(2001)

allmusic.com:
"Makoto Kawabata's neo-hippie psychedelic cult, stripped down to only six members, offers up another fine album, two long tracks of extreme psychedelic brain-damaged sounds. The first cut is a rousing Krautrock version of the Terry Riley classic of minimalism, which lends itself perfectly to the Acid Mothers' freakout-overdose sound. Basically, the band locks into a repetitive mantra riff of keyboards, bass, and percussion, with tweaked-out electronic swirls. The Acid Mothers' version of "In C" has the same energy and vigor as the take of the same piece by L'Infonie (which can be heard on the Terry Riley CD Reed Streams), although with more electronics and no horns it comes off much heavier and more dense. "In E" is an Acid Mothers improvisation along similar lines, an "In C" with a guitar orientation. It starts off with a few minutes of keyboard squall before Kawabata's guitar and then the rest of the instruments kick in another headlong rush of thunderous mantra rhythms and a cosmic slew of keyboard sounds, and even eerie non-verbal vocal trills from Cotton Casino. The track is darker and more intense than "In C," as the instruments weave in and out of the minimalist structure while the tension builds and builds. One doesn't normally think of minimalism in the same breath as the psychedelic overkill for which the Acid Mothers are renown, but here it works fantastically, as they take the mantle from the '70s Krautrockers like Can and Neu! and create a new type of maximal minimalism."

Tracklist:
1. "In C" - (20:32)
2. "In E" - (16:31)
3. "In D" - (19:48)

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Acid Mothers Temple - In WFMU 2000

Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.

In WFMU 2000
(November 2000)

Tracklist:
1. "Intro" - (1:30)
2. "In C" - (28:14)

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