New CD edition of this recent solo album from Makoto Kawabata of Acid Mothers Temple, previously available on vinyl from A Silent Place. Inspired by the 1972 Popol Vuh album Hosanna Mantra, Kawabata has assembled a beautiful series of devotional Kosmiche tone-float pieces that work to further the higher-mind feel of his original Inui series of recordings. Here he uses electric guitar, bouzouki and sitar.

Limited edition of 500 copies French LP from the Acid Mothers Temple quartet line-up of Makoto Kawabata, Hiroshi Higashi, Koji Shimura and Atsushi Tsuyama. The vinyl features two side-long tracks based around the concept of the mystical vibrational significance of the repeating note sequence A-E-D-A-G-D. The first side takes this pattern and repeats it over almost Silver Apples-styled rushes of drum machine and phasing F/X, while the flip explodes it completely with some heavy guitar-saturated ritual. A great, trance-focussed side from AMT in the tradition of other mysto-chord explorations ala Ash Ra Tempel’s Schwingungen. VT has the more limited version of the LP that come with a bonus poster and postcard.

All-improvised studio summit between two generations of six-string psychedelic assault, Makoto Kawabata of Acid Mothers Temple and Shinsuke Michishita of LSD March. As explosive as you might have hoped, this monster moves from eerie loops of smeared minimalist drone through to the sound of two guitars tearing tremolo-inflected wails of fuzz from the very guts of their fucking instruments. Imagine the most brain-flashing psychedelic assault troupe ever hallucinated outta west coast USA, transplant em to Japan and then erase the rhythm section. Too much.

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Blackest Rainbow have really upped their game recently in terms of presentation, with heavy tip-on sleeves and immaculate slabs of vinyl, and this is a particularly impressive package. White Summer Of Love Dreamer sees Kawabata of Acid Mothers Temple in hypnotic electro-acoustic form, channelling the ghost of his Inui incarnation through travelling finger-picked acoustic guitar, subtle electronic guitar treatments, bouzouki, sarangi, tambura, organ, hurdy-gurdy, field recordings and automatic vocals. Edition of 500 copies. OOP.

Yeah yeah, blah blah, it’s hard to keep up w/AMT, they release too much shit etc etc.. but every so often Makoto Kawabata’s Japanese psychedelic orchestra release something that hands you your ass on a plate and makes you remember just how dazzling they can be at their peak. And this is a perfect case in point. Released to inaugurate Blackest Rainbow’s new Blackest Bootlegs series, Shakespeare From The Cosmic Inferno catches the group at a wild celestial high in Sheffield, England in 2008. The line-up is Pika from Afrirampo on vocals, Tabata Mitsuru (Zeni Geva/Loud Machine 5000 et al) on bass and voice, Higashi Hiroshi on synth, guitar and vocals, Koji Shimura (White Heaven/Jutok Kaneko) on drums and Kawabata on guitar and vocals. The merciful absence of ‘space joker’ Atsushi Tsuyama means there’s less wack and more warp, with the group tearing through “Master Of The Cosmic Inferno/Heart Of Earth/Ecstasy Into The Cosmic Inferno” before melting into an almost two-sides long take on their classic repeat-guitar/dreamboat anthem “Pink Lady Lemonade”, detouring halfway through into a sidereal “Space Disco” wig out. A dream line-up navigating some of Kawabata’s most potent settings of rock hypnotics all rendered with the kinda crude/explosive fidelity that could almost have been master-minded by Nanjo Asahito. It’s enough to make you remember why you fell in love with AMT in the first place. Edition of only 250 copies on 140g vinyl with full-colour printed sleeves. Highly recommended!

Stunning 2001 release from Makoto Kawabata’s psychedelic cult, here with a brain-bobbing take on Terry Riley’s minimalist classic as scored for synth, bass, throat-gargling vocals and motor-psycho guitar. On Eclipse and long out of print.

Much-anticipated return for one of the most legendary of Japanese underground power trios: it’s an indisputable fact that Mainliner’s OTT debut, 1996’ Mellow Out, remains one of the most mind-blowing re-thinks of the potential of overloaded power trio dynamics and one of the all-time great Japanese underground monsters. Mainliner were the brainchild of notorious bassist/vocalist Nanjo Asahito, who also fronted High Rise, Musica Transonic, Holy Angels, Toho Sara and a host of other one-off satellites. With Nanjo having basically ‘gone underground’ it has been left to original guitarist Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple et al) to resurrect the group, now dubbed Makoto Kawabata’s Mainliner in deference to Nanjo. Here he returns with original drummer Koji Shimura and with the addition of bassist/vocalist Kawabe Taigen of Bo Ningen. It was the levels of fuzz on Kawabata’s guitar that really defined the Mainliner sound, as well as their propensity for endless incessant two chord boogie riffs, and both are present to the max here, with Kawabata tearing a-formal shapes from a guitar that is literally cracking up with noise while the rhythm section play dunting time-staggered grooves. Kawabe is a good substitute for Nanjo and his languorous reverb-soaked vocals work as a slow-motion foil for the insane levels amphetamine riffage. A massively welcome return to form for these Tokyo underground monsters, vinyl edition ultra-limited and immediately sold out at source, so make your move!