Acid Mothers Temple + ST 37 at AMB!
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May 9, 2020
DOORS | 9:00 PM
Show: 10:00 pm
Tickets: $13 ADV // $15 DOS
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
Formed in 1995 by Makoto Kawabata at the same time as the Acid Mothers Temple Soul Collective. The group released its debut album in 1997 on PSF Records (Japan), and it was selected as one of the year’s best albums in the The Wire magazine (UK). In 1998 the group played their first tours of the US and Europe. Since then the group has released a huge number of albums on labels from many different countries. As of 2017, the group has released around 80 albums. Every year since 1998, they have toured extensively in the US and Europe, and more recently have started performing around Asia and in Japan too.
The group has performed in collaboration with many musicians including psychedelic originators Gong and Guru Guru, Simeon (Silver Apples), Nik Turner (Hawkwind), and the Occitanian trad sinder Rosina de Peira. Japanese collaborators have included Afrirampo, Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins), Maso Yamazaki (Masonna), Seiichi Yamamoto (Boredoms), Jun Kuriyama (The Ox), and many others.
To begin with the group had a floating line-up with contributions from many members of the AMT Soul Collective. But as tours became more frequent, the group began to coalesce around a core touring line-up. Other bands were created with Acid Mothers Temple as part of their name (AMT & The Cosmic Inferno, AMT SWR, AMT & The Space Paranoid, Acid Mothers Gong, Acid Mothers Guru Guru, etc.), but AMT & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. has continued to function as the mothership and main lineage for all our activities.
In 2016, 21 years since the group’s founding, there was a major shift in the line-up and “Next Generation” was added to the name. We now view the first 20 years as chapter one in our story, and we are now turning the page to start chapter two. The current touring line-up is: Makoto Kawabata (the sole original member), Hiroshi Higashi, Mitsuko☆Tabata, Nani Satoshima, and Wolf.
ST 37
Since their formation in January of 1987, Texas psych/space rock legends ST 37 have released 4 LPs, 4 double LPs, 11 CDs, 1 12″ 45, 5 7″ 45s, 8 CDRs, 3 double CDRs, 8 cassettes, and have appeared on over 45 compilations and collaborations on labels ranging from Emperor Jones and RRR to Cleopatra and Noiseville.
They’ve played over 500 shows and toured extensively all around the United States and Canada. The band has shared the stage with artists like Sonic Youth, Acid Mothers Temple, Faust, Bardo Pond, the Butthole Surfers, Hawkwind, Nik Turner’s Space Ritual, Chrome, Guru Guru, Rocket From the Tombs, Helios Creed, Indian Jewelry, Suisho no Fune, and many more as well as playing festivals like Terrastock, SXSW, Saturnalia, Bayou Psych Fest, Levitation/Austin Psych Fest, Strange Daze, Weedstock and Flaxfield.
They have scored and performed live original soundtracks to the Fritz Lang films Metropolis and Destiny (Der Mude Tod). Their current lineup reads like a veritable Who’s Who of contemporary southern and western American adventurous music; newest member Matt Turner (Quttinirpaaq, Shit and Shine, bees are black) joins Bobby Baker (Baby Robots, Rubble, Game 4), Bob Bechtol (Seven Inch Stitch, Thanatopsis Throne) and long term stalwarts SL Telles (My Education, Bahrain, Dizzyluna, American Vodka, Die Krupps, Guru Freakout), Joel Crutcher (Abigail und Hansel, the Organians) and Lisa Cameron (Venison Whirled, Three Day Stubble, Roky Erickson’s Evilhook Wildlife E.T., Brave Combo, Pat Travers Band, Moist Fist, Glass Eye) to create music unlike anyone else’s.
May 9, 2020
DOORS | 9:00 PM
Show: 10:00 pm
Tickets: $13 ADV // $15 DOS
Formed in 1995 by Makoto Kawabata at the same time as the Acid Mothers Temple Soul Collective. The group released its debut album in 1997 on PSF Records (Japan), and it was selected as one of the year’s best albums in the The Wire magazine (UK). In 1998 the group played their first tours of the US and Europe. Since then the group has released a huge number of albums on labels from many different countries. As of 2017, the group has released around 80 albums. Every year since 1998, they have toured extensively in the US and Europe, and more recently have started performing around Asia and in Japan too.
The group has performed in collaboration with many musicians including psychedelic originators Gong and Guru Guru, Simeon (Silver Apples), Nik Turner (Hawkwind), and the Occitanian trad sinder Rosina de Peira. Japanese collaborators have included Afrirampo, Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins), Maso Yamazaki (Masonna), Seiichi Yamamoto (Boredoms), Jun Kuriyama (The Ox), and many others.
To begin with the group had a floating line-up with contributions from many members of the AMT Soul Collective. But as tours became more frequent, the group began to coalesce around a core touring line-up. Other bands were created with Acid Mothers Temple as part of their name (AMT & The Cosmic Inferno, AMT SWR, AMT & The Space Paranoid, Acid Mothers Gong, Acid Mothers Guru Guru, etc.), but AMT & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. has continued to function as the mothership and main lineage for all our activities.
In 2016, 21 years since the group’s founding, there was a major shift in the line-up and “Next Generation” was added to the name. We now view the first 20 years as chapter one in our story, and we are now turning the page to start chapter two. The current touring line-up is: Makoto Kawabata (the sole original member), Hiroshi Higashi, Mitsuko☆Tabata, Nani Satoshima, and Wolf.
ST 37
Since their formation in January of 1987, Texas psych/space rock legends ST 37 have released 4 LPs, 4 double LPs, 11 CDs, 1 12″ 45, 5 7″ 45s, 8 CDRs, 3 double CDRs, 8 cassettes, and have appeared on over 45 compilations and collaborations on labels ranging from Emperor Jones and RRR to Cleopatra and Noiseville.
They’ve played over 500 shows and toured extensively all around the United States and Canada. The band has shared the stage with artists like Sonic Youth, Acid Mothers Temple, Faust, Bardo Pond, the Butthole Surfers, Hawkwind, Nik Turner’s Space Ritual, Chrome, Guru Guru, Rocket From the Tombs, Helios Creed, Indian Jewelry, Suisho no Fune, and many more as well as playing festivals like Terrastock, SXSW, Saturnalia, Bayou Psych Fest, Levitation/Austin Psych Fest, Strange Daze, Weedstock and Flaxfield.
They have scored and performed live original soundtracks to the Fritz Lang films Metropolis and Destiny (Der Mude Tod). Their current lineup reads like a veritable Who’s Who of contemporary southern and western American adventurous music; newest member Matt Turner (Quttinirpaaq, Shit and Shine, bees are black) joins Bobby Baker (Baby Robots, Rubble, Game 4), Bob Bechtol (Seven Inch Stitch, Thanatopsis Throne) and long term stalwarts SL Telles (My Education, Bahrain, Dizzyluna, American Vodka, Die Krupps, Guru Freakout), Joel Crutcher (Abigail und Hansel, the Organians) and Lisa Cameron (Venison Whirled, Three Day Stubble, Roky Erickson’s Evilhook Wildlife E.T., Brave Combo, Pat Travers Band, Moist Fist, Glass Eye) to create music unlike anyone else’s.
