Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
Have You Seen the Other Side of the Sky?
More and more Acid Mothers Temple leader Makoto Kawabata reminds me of Sun Ra, as a kindred interplanetary visionary and this album seems to want to verify this line of thought. The opening Attack from Planet Hattifatteners could almost be Ra and company in one of their free form freak-out modes. Say the Moon of Jupiter is a gently moody folk rocker, closer the Ghost’s more spectral emanations (which is fitting as ex-Ghost members are now playing in AMT). Elsewhere they crawl backwards into Syd Barrett’s brain circa 1969. Honestly this is one of the finest and most varied and acoustically flavored AMT albums I’ve heard; maybe it’s sort of their answer to Led Zep’s third album, and will certainly please those mesmerized by the La Novia-flavored folkish aspect of this band (though this is largely a new edition of AMT). But those craving satanic metallic speedy shredding will not be dissapointed either as I Want To Be Your Bicycle Saddle proves however briefly, as do the bone crushing aspects of the opening aforementioned ‘Hattifatteners’, or the awesome vastness of the closing, over half hour long track.
George Parsons
Dream Magazine #7
