After playing in many other projects, Japanese guitarist Makoto Kawabata decided to continue his musical explorations by bringing together like-minded individuals to create trippy freak-outs inspired by Stockhausen, Krautrock and ’70s progressive hard rock.
Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. (Underground Freak Out) were founded in 1996 as a “soul collective”.
Over a decade ago Kawabata became involved with a commune of Japanese beatniks and hippies, but the whole left-wing ethos didn’t really sit right with him.
Acid Mothers Temple | Dark Stars in the Dazzling Sky
httpv://https://youtube.com/watch?v=EVrG5W_ffgM
The members of Acid Mothers Temple have several houses all over Japan, and each of the members is free to come and go between these houses.
So they’re not a commune in the sense that all of them live together in the same place. There are some members who like to travel, others who stay at home.
Acid Mothers Temple | Twilight
httpv://https://youtube.com/watch?v=gBO2MCKN8ug
Everyone is free to live in whatever way he or she likes. ATM’s main slogan is “Do Whatever You Want, Don’t Do Whatever You Don’t Want!!”.
As a result of this philosophy, AMT have lost money and the trust of society as a whole, but they’ve gained time and freedom.
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Acid Mothers Temple LIVE
Tuesday, 06 November 2012 | 20:00 CET
Marie Antoinette | Holzmarktstr. 15-18 | 10179 Berlin/Mitte
http://www.acidmothers.com/
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