With a discography stretching across tens of labels and hundreds of releases, it is no exaggeration to say that keeping up with Kawabata Makoto and his Acid Mothers Temple outfit is something of a Sisyphean task. Comprising of two typically extended psychedelic workouts and one shorter intermissionary piece of acoustic folksy oddness from bassist Atsushi Tsuyama, this latest offering is released by Alien8 to honour the band's trip to North America at the start if the year. First track "Eleking The Clay" pitches Kawabata's amazing "speed guru" guitar playing front and centre and accelerates over 14 minutes of ravishing rock histrionics, with flurries of notes falling over themselves as the band power us full-speed towards the heart of their psychedelic sun. After Tsuyama's "Sorcerer's Stone Of The Magi" intermission, the final track, "Vishnu And The Magic Elixir", provides the usual Acid Mothers style epic album closer. Starting quietly with eastern-soaked acoustic explorations, it builds gradually into a head-swirling cosmic extravaganza, powered by racing bass and drum grooves underpinning more of Kawabata's fiery soloing and plenty of Higashi Hiroshi's trademark swooping spacey synthesisers, finally staggering to a ravished close some 25 minutes later. Amongst the seemingly endless cavalcade of AMT releases, this is one for the psych-rock fans to keep their third eye open for.'Lord Of The Underground: Vishnu & The Magic Elixir' is out now on Alien8.
Acid Mothers Temple
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