Acid Mothers Temple
Acid Mothers Temple is a Japanese psychedelic and space rock group led by guitarist Kawabata Makoto. He formed the core group in 1995 with Koizumi Hajime, Suhara Keizo and Cotton Casino, aiming at what he called extreme trip music and drawing on progressive rock, krautrock and Karlheinz Stockhausen. The band works as a loose collective with changing line-ups and many parallel units. The Acid Mothers Temple soul collective issued two self-titled tapes on its own label in 1997, and the first album, Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O., came out the same year.
