Acid Mother's Temple / The Seventh Seal / Kaina
I prefer to review 3 different Acid Mother Temple related items here : Kaina : Tsurubami as a typical AMT-related improvisation, "in C" as one of the best thema/record associated releases I heard so far and "Seventh Seal" as the best Krautrock related LP I've heard so far from them.
Acid Mother Temple already became a cult-group with its own distinctive improvisation sound highly influenced by the Ash Ra Temple/Uli Trepte/.. German Krautrock improvisations. Kawabata Makoto and his group have so many ideas which come forth from listening to such and other albums, now when they have the chance to record and try these “energies” out they simply blow it up and make their own version. “In C” I found a lot more interesting and convincing than the original score by Terry Riley which for me was also sometwhat boring, because the spirit of what he has developed there had reached its creative peaks in exploring in some of the predating works he did before, while Acid Mother’s Temple is amidst the true energy of a creative exploration during this recording. Kaina’s “Tsurubami” is a compilation of three improvisations on two different locations (Acid Mother’s Temple & Club Radix, Nagoya). The first track is a beautiful ambient overtone drone’s psych, with some controlled brooding & distorted background space vibrations building up towards the end. The second track is complete distorted & overloaded madness, another aspect of the same group, while the last nicely concluding track is another ambient psych track from 2002, added as bonus to the original CDR from 2000. A release which grew a lot on me with each listens.
