The Cracked Mirror - Damage
The Cracked Mirror - Damage
The Cracked Mirror - Damage
Blessed Sacrifist & Cranial Drill - We Can Only Hope
Blessed Sacrifist & Cranial Drill - We Can Only Hope
T. Mikawa & Cracksteel - Fuck My Ass Live at Binspark
T. Mikawa & Cracksteel - Fuck My Ass Live at Binspark
South Saturn Delta - Experience The Concreteness
An on-off live project from Hiroshi Hasegawa (Astro), Maso Yamazaki (Masonna) and Nobuko Emi (the drummer in Tsurubami, The Seventh Seal, Drop Pow and Tsuru No Ko). She isn't credited on the release so I'm not sure if she is on any of these live recordings. Anyway, it's totally appropriate that they should take their name from the obscure Hendrix track. Walls of destroyed guitars and wave upon wave of synth noise and Masonna roar ... and it makes a pretty good transition point for the noise that follows ...
Four live recordings in Osaka and Tokyo from 2003-2005 delivered by the lovely people at Cold Spring in 2007.
Experience The Concreteness
Mainliner - Troop
This time it's Hajime Koizumi (former Acid Mothers and Seventh Seal drummer). Apparently, it's the "acid cool" demo mix of the Mellow Out release recorded in 1995.
C44 released on La Musica Records in 1996.
Troop
Mainliner - Psychedelic Atmosphere Beatnik
Back to Asahito Nanjo, Makoto Kawabata and Tatsuya Yoshida again and recorded live in 1996.
C40 released on La Musica Records in 1996.
Psychedelic Atmosphere Beatnik
Mainliner - Solid Stick Attack
This time around it's Koji Shimura behind the kit ...
CDr released on La Musica Records in 1999.
Solid Stick Attack
Mainliner - Psychedelic Polyhedron
Makoto Kawabata on guitar, Asahito Nanjo on bass and vocals and Tatsuya Yoshida on drums. How much better does it get?
Originally released as an LP on Fractal Records in 1997, this is the CD from 2004 with an additional unreleased 11 minute track.
Psychedelic Polyhedron
Diza Star & The Pink Ladies Blues - 3
Sprawling psychedelic glissando guitar tethered to a swamp blues rhythm section that slides into alien synth and space rock. Suits me sir!
LP released on Fractal Records in 2007 (although there was a CDr reissue that slipped out relatively unnoticed in 2014).
Big thanks again to Ivangov for both of the Diza's.
Three
Diza Star & The Pink Ladies Blues - Featuring Mani Neumeier
Magic Aum Gigi (aka Jérôme Genin) and Tsuchy with Mai Mai (aka Mai Xiao Guo Da Shi) and Mani Neumeier. Acidguruguru styled shaman rock.
CD released on Fractal Records in 2007.
Featuring Mani Neumeier
Splendor Mystic Solis - Heavy Acid Blowout Tensions Live
Asahito Nanjo, Makoto Kawabata, Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow), former Ruins bassist Sasaki Hisashi and Acid Mothers drummer Shimura Koji. Three live recordings from a North American tour in 1999. The title gives the clue to the psychedelic rock excesses that await.
LP jointly released on Galactic Zoo Disk and Eclipse Records in 2003.
Heavy Acid Blowout Tensions Live
Galax - Never Ending Space Trackin'
Hiroshi Hasegawa (aka Astro), Hiroshi Higashi (Acid Mothers) and Keiichi Miyashita (who was in GodMan and Mandog). Space-psych recorded live at three Japanese venues during 2006.
CD released on the late and much lamented aRCHIVE in 2007.
Never Ending Space Trackin'
Dare Devil Band - 猪武者
Dare Devil Band were Makoto Kawabata, Atsushi Tsuyama and Shoji Hano. Whilst the latter was the drummer with High Rise, the style is more in keeping with his improvisations with Peter Brötzmann.
CD released on P.S.F. Records in 2003. There was an early edition that came with a bonus CDr with one untitled track on it. Never heard that one ... if anybody could help out etc ...
猪武者
According to Discogs, 猪武者 was recorded live at Hard Rain, Osaka on March the 25th, 2003 and at Club East, Kyoto two days later. The dates are probably the other way around ... here's the full Kyoto gig:
Live at Club East, Kyoto, 25.03.2003
Atsushi Tsuyama - Sampler Tape Cassette
Now, here's a strange thing. A collection of Atsushi Tsuyama related projects: Atsushi Tsuyama and Chikako Hidaka; Omoide Hatoba Live at Bears, Osaka; Akaten Live at Reithalle, Berne; Tairiku Otoko vs Sanmyaku Onna; Live at "Hoya in F", Tokyo; Live at Tokuzo, Nagoya and Happiness Proof. You'd be forgiven for thinking that this was just a mixtape put together by Joe Bloggs in his bedroom somewhere ... and then you get to the end of the tape and Chikako Hidaka thanks you "for hearing the end of this tape" and explains that Atsushi Tsuyama is available for tours all over the world. That sounds pretty genuine to me. It seems that this was a promotional tape sent out in 1999 ... all of the titles and personnel are listed in the files ... make of it what you will.
Sampler Tape Cassette
Silvum - Repeats
Silvum - Repeats
Atsushi Tsuyama - 御祝
Another tour CDr in an envelope generically used for the presentation of wedding gifts. The "information" for this on discogs really couldn't be much more wrong. It was for sale in 2002 (and not "on an early 1990s Acid Mothers Temple tour" which actually predates AMT) and the track-list is accurate here (confirmed by the hand-written information in the scans). Anyway, it's really really great!
Thank you for good choice!
Atsushi Tsuyama - Do You Delay?
Whilst central to the Acid Mothers family, Atsushi Tsuyama has also made wonderful music as a member of the likes of Akaten, Nishinihon, Omoide Hatoba, Ruinzhatova and Seikazoku. This is recorded live in Nagoya in 2010 and clearly this is not a solo gig. However, there is no information on the release regarding the other people here. That's a shame as the contributors to the lovely swirling psychedelics and general lunacy deserve full credit. Quality!
Self-released CDr from 2010.
Do You Delay?
Kawabata vs. Tsuyama - Rock Is War 2000 - Freak Out Battle In Chicago 1st.Dec.2000
Two solo performances that wouldn't really fall under the "war" or "freak out" category. They are more considered and almost ambient pieces ... that is until the second half of Makoto Kawabata's set where he seems to loop his guitar sound with increasingly cacophonous results.
CDr released on Acid Mothers Temple in 2001.
Rock Is War 2000
Acid Mothers Temple SWR, Manitatsu, Acid Mothers Guru Guru - Guru Guru Fest 2010
A wonderfully warped set of recordings captured live at Chaotic Noise in 2010. There is at least one other Guru Guru Fest recording but I've never heard it (them?). If anybody could address that awful deficit, I'd really appreciate it!
CD released on Chaotic Noise Recordings in 2010.
Guru Guru Fest 2010
Guru & Zero - Makoto Mango
Lysergic delights await on a single 48 minute track that really allows the three to open up and flow.
CD jointly released on Swordfish Records and Quiet Season (a sub-label of Riot Season created just for this release) in 2004.
Makoto Mango
Guru & Zero - Beauty And The Basket Case
Tripped-out space-folk-rock from Kawabata Makoto, Cotton Casino and former Soft Machine and Gong front-man Daevid Allen.
Beauty And The Basket Case
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - 馬上中國 The Unlimited Dream Cloister
A live set recorded at “AMT Fest vol.11″ in Tokuzo, Nagoya on the 8th of December, 2012. This was originally intended to coincide with a tour of China that never actually went ahead. Instead it was sold during the Mothers' North American tour in 2014 and Makoto Kawabata's solo sojourn in Europe of the same year.
CD released on FM3 Productions Ltd in 2014.
馬上中國 The Unlimited Dream Cloister
Silvum - Suspension
Silvum - Suspension
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO - Interstellar Guru And Zero
Acid Mothers as the four-piece of Hiroshi Higashi, Kawabata Makoto, Tsuyama Atsushi and Shimura Koji. Two tracks including the epic title track that comes in at 39 minutes long!
CD released Homeopathic Records in 2008.
Interstellar Guru And Zero
Silvum - Strands
Silvum - Strands
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Birmingham Flapper & Firkin May 29th 2001
This is a soundboard recording of the gig in the title that was then given away as a free CDr at their gig at the same venue on October 13th 2013. What a nice thing to do!
Thanks For Coming!
Silvum - Separation Relic
Silvum - Separation Relic
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Live In Sweden
Recorded live at Plan B in Malmö, Sweden on October the 11th 2015 and sold as a CDr on their North American tour the following year.
Live In Sweden
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - The Psychedelic Fiction Sauce Book
Compilation purporting to consist of rare and previously unreleased versions of such AMT staples as La Nòvia, Shine On You Crazy Dynamite and Pink Lady Lemonade.
Double CD released on White Rabbit Records in 2014.
Psychedelic
Sauce
Silvum - All The Birds Are Gone
Silvum - All The Birds Are Gone
Nijiumu - Era Of Sad Wings
Nijiumu were Asahito Nanjo, Keiji Haino, Shizuo Uchida and Tetuzi Akiyama. If you don't count the live set on the Driftworks release, I'm pretty sure that this was their only official release and that Asahito had left by this point. Regardless, this is a truly cavernous and atmospheric work of wonder!
Released on P.S.F. Records in 1993.
Whilst I'm here, in case you weren't around at the time, I've re-upped both of the La Musica CDrs, the Driftworks box-set and (for good measure) the two Aihiyo releases.
悲翼紀
Silvum - When She Sleeps
Silvum - When She Sleeps
Silvum - Trauma
Silvum - Trauma
Silvum - Oceans
Silvum - Oceans
Fushitsusha - Nothing Changes No One Can Change Anything, I Am Ever-Changing Only You Can Change Yourself
Legendary live performance at Hōsei University, Tokyo, on April the 26th, 1996 featuring Peter Brötzmann alongside Keiji Haino, Jun Kosugi and Yasushi Ozawa.
Stunning triple CD set released on Utech Records in 2014.
Nothing Changes
No One Can Change Anything
Only You Can Change Yourself
Keiji Haino - Kono Kehai Fujirareteru Hajimari Ni [Global Ancient Atmosphere]
In another stylistic twist, a drum kit provides the source material for the improvisation.
CD released on P.S.F. Records in 2005.
この気配 封じられてる 創まりに
Keiji Haino - Yaranaiga Dekinaikotoni Natteyuku
Back into the more familiar territory of guitar and vocals ...
CD released on P.S.F. Records in 2006.
やらないが できないことに なってゆく
Keiji Haino - Experimental Mixture
Another DJ mix in the form of a single track that is much darker and more intricate than the material on the previous posts.
CD released on Black Smoker Records in 2013.
Experimental Mixture
Keiji Haino Experimental Mixture - The Greatest Hits Of The Music
And the prize for the most ironic title of the year goes to ...
More turntable wizardry on this CD released on Youth Inc. in 2014.
The Greatest Hits Of The Music
Doc Wor Mirran - Un(Butt)Plugged
Doc Wor Mirran - Un(Butt)Plugged
Keiji Haino - Experimental Mixture: In The World
You know that image of Keiji Haino that we all have? Dark, austere and mysterious? Yeah, that one. Well, think again. Here's the man behind the wheels of steel with a three disc DJ set. Even as I think it, it feels strange ... but it works!
Released on Youth Inc. in 2013.
In Your Ears
In Your Minds
In Your Spirits