"When the Acid Mothers Gong band manifested in 2003, it was yet another story in the evolving history of Gong, which started in 1968 in Paris. Daevid Allen had returned there after being refused entry to the UK for visa reasons when on the way to the...

Gotta LOVE that title! "While this album is certainly a tribute record it doesn't consist of straight-up Sabbath worship in the simple sense of covers. The band sounds as if they are simultaneously paying respect to other Sabbath-influenced projects su...

An excellent way to get acquainted with this modern-day Japanese psychedelic outfit who have been getting a lot of ink recently. This reissues the now out of print lp version with bonus tracks that add a full album's worth of material...

"Includes 'Dark Stars In The Dazzling Sky' (aka 'Dark Star Blues'), 'Pink Lady Lemonade,' 'La Le Lo' and an improv track. This is the tour CD of their U.S. & Canadian tour 2008. Limited to 1000 copies only."

"In 2002, French filmmaker Audrey Ginestet accompanied Japanese rock group Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. on their US tour to shoot a documentary film. More than just a document of a band on tour, the film looks at differences in...

"Acid Mothers Temple return with an expanded Melting Paraiso U.F.O. line-up, featuring the added guitar skills of Japan underground legend and new full-time member Tabata Mitsuru (Boredoms, Zeni Gava, Leningrad Blues Machine, etc.). IAO Chant from...

Complete document of the last gig that AMT played in Tokyo in February 1999. The gig was also Tsuyama's first with us after officially joining the group, and it took place about a month before the release of 2nd album Pataphisical Freak Out MU!!. For t...

"Acid Mothers Temple and Important Records have decided to release the complete Magical Power From Mars in its entirety with the addition of the fourth and final track 'Aladdin Kane.' Magical Power From Mars comes housed with completely new front and...

This is released in an edition of 1,000 copies. "Limited edition 2006 US Tour CD featuring recordings from 2004. 'Dark Stars in the Dazzling Sky' (aka Dark Star Blues) was recorded at Spaceland on June 6, 2004 -- a great show. And the other track is...

"Son Of A Bitches Brew is a true electric jazz record from the Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO. Rooted in the sound of Miles Davis' electric era this record melds jazz, funk and psych with AMT's synth swoops, space whispers and cosmic...

"The renowned Japanese cosmic freak-out heavyweights return with a brand new studio album, marking ten years since their mothership first descended on the UK. Now a steady four piece led by Kawabata Makoto (guitar) and including Tsuyama Atsushi....

"The long-anticipated collaboration between Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. & Stearica. In November 2008 AMT and Stearica toured extensively around Europe. Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. is a legendary Japanese...

"New 2nd album by the japanese AMT trio, an outfit led by Magic Aum GiGi alias Jerome Genin, Fractal owner for the fake secret. The Soul of a Mountain Wolf is a concept album, short and definitely ROCK dominated by wild fuzz psychedelic guitar."

And is it possible for a title of a record to be longer than the name of this Japanese freak-out, psychedelic band? Apparently!

Charming Japanese hype-sheet follows. Basically, this is a recent live CD release available only from Japan in excellent sound (unlike their previous live albums) and featuring a unique personnel for this performance. "Live recording made in Japan from...

"Acid Mothers Temple revisit some of their older sounds for this new album, their first on Nod and Smile Records. "Cometary Orbital Drive to 2199" contains 3 new versions of the AMT live staple "Cometary Orbital Drive" all of which maintain the same...

"Live recording from AMT Festival volume 6 on December 8, 2007. This is a double CD set with a 6 panel cardboard jacket. Limited to 1000 copies. Recorded on digital 16 track multi-recording system. Features: Yamamoto Seiichi: guitar, voice (Boredoms...

Available again for the first time in many years. This is a collection of the best of the 3 rare Japanese-only vinyl releases plus 30' of live material by this Japanese new music rock band, who predated the current huge interest in all things "Japan". ...

This release is by a Japanese duo that Alain of Soleil Zeuhl discovered. Yoshiyuki plays keyboards/synths/programming and Yoshihiro Yamaji plays guitar and bass. All of the drums are programmed, but they do a very good job of it, and this excellent deb...

Second release by this instrumental Japanese duo of Yoshiyuki Nakamima-piano, organ, keyboards, bass guitar and Yoshihiro Yamaji-guitar. Their debut was a very good first effort, but it suffered from having programmed drums. It had some of the best...

"The Echo From The Purple Dawn is a brand new full length from C.C.C.C. member Hiroshi Hasegawa's solo project Astro. Using a battery of oscillators, ring modulators and field recordings Hasegawa has created an engaging and versitile album that...

Somehow I don't think Ayuo was thinking of Ameri"The creator of two of the most fascinating releases on the New Japan series (Izutsu and Red Moon) now turns his hand to one of the most curious of all Japanese musical forms, the Noh play. Mixing the....

Japan's Blues Creation was formed by guitarists Kazuo Takeda, Koh Eiryu and singer Fumio Nunoya, in early 1969, after the dissolution of their Group Sounds outfit The Bickies. Highly influenced by Cream and The Yardbirds, Takeda joined forces with...

A now out of print compilation from their first 3 albums! This includes 3 tracks from their great first album (my personal favorite of their works), as well as one track from II and III/Recit. Bondage Fruit were part of the Japanese Zeuhl explosion of...

"Phoenix Records reissues Brast Burn's Debon -- a classic of Japanese Kraut obscurity originally released in 1975 on Voice Records, now digitally-remastered. Brast Burn are often linked with Karuna Khayal, with many aficionados concluding that they...