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Format:Audio CD
`Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under The Stars' is the newest release from the always prolific Japanese semi-commune known as Acid Mothers Temple. It professes to be the "cleanest sounding" album yet and, as far as I've heard, that's correct. `Crystal Rainbow...' has the most balanced production I've heard on any AMT record. For a start, the drums are easily picked out, which makes a huge difference. So often in the past they have been reduced to faint thumps and distant hi-hats, which lessened the hypnotic power of the band just a little. The instrumentation herein is just as multi-layered and rich as before, only this time everything is more clearly audible. Everything sounds big, nothing sounds cluttered. And though existing fans will already be used to the freewheeling confusion inherent in any AMT listening session, the stronger production can only be a plus.
And onto the songs themselves. The opener `Pussyhead Man...' is a thoroughly wild, slightly atonal jam that lasts a little over seven minutes and sees the new vocalist Kitigawa marking her place inside the Acid Mothers whirlwind. It's a solid track, and the relatively short length works in its favour. The remaining hour of `Crystal Rainbow...' is a mellower affair. The (almost) title track is a lush, triplet-time groove that hits all the bases with aplomb. It's not only one of the best Acid Mothers songs around, it's also the one I would use as an introduction to the band. Its opening old-school riff is rooted in conventional stoner fayre, although it's liberally sprinkled with spacey madness for the entire duration. Already the album is shaping up to be a pretty damn good Acid Mothers record, but what follows propels `Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under The Stars' into the higher echelons of the band's achievements. `Electric Psilocybin Flashback' is in their space-folk vein, but it's a 40 minute multi-part monster. A half-Eastern, half-Mediterranean guitar riff drones through the opening few minutes, leading into some sublime saxophone lead lines and beyond. Only in the last ten minutes does this track drag slightly, but that's only a minor quibble. It's easily one of the most expansive and interesting pieces they've put their collective name to, and rounds off an excellent record. Acid Mothers Temple show no sign of slowing down, and when their output is reliably this good, there's no need for them to.
And onto the songs themselves. The opener `Pussyhead Man...' is a thoroughly wild, slightly atonal jam that lasts a little over seven minutes and sees the new vocalist Kitigawa marking her place inside the Acid Mothers whirlwind. It's a solid track, and the relatively short length works in its favour. The remaining hour of `Crystal Rainbow...' is a mellower affair. The (almost) title track is a lush, triplet-time groove that hits all the bases with aplomb. It's not only one of the best Acid Mothers songs around, it's also the one I would use as an introduction to the band. Its opening old-school riff is rooted in conventional stoner fayre, although it's liberally sprinkled with spacey madness for the entire duration. Already the album is shaping up to be a pretty damn good Acid Mothers record, but what follows propels `Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under The Stars' into the higher echelons of the band's achievements. `Electric Psilocybin Flashback' is in their space-folk vein, but it's a 40 minute multi-part monster. A half-Eastern, half-Mediterranean guitar riff drones through the opening few minutes, leading into some sublime saxophone lead lines and beyond. Only in the last ten minutes does this track drag slightly, but that's only a minor quibble. It's easily one of the most expansive and interesting pieces they've put their collective name to, and rounds off an excellent record. Acid Mothers Temple show no sign of slowing down, and when their output is reliably this good, there's no need for them to.
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This three track CD was pretty much what I had expected. It's been noted to be one of Acid Mother's most polished-sounding efforts to date. "Pussy Head Man From Outer Space" (7:42) is your usual AMT wall of pure space-noise to thoroughly soak in. Title cut "Crystal Rainbow Pyramid" (21:57) features some semi-mutated vocals as well as some hot female voice effects from the band's newest (then) member Kitagawo Hao. Tune also includes some echoing guitar riffs that fuller permits the listner(s) to enjoy plenty of tripping bliss - to some fans, it might just sound like an undiscovered lost-in-the-vaults Hawkwind track, from the 1972-73 era. "Electric Psilocybin Flashback" (40:21) is a lengthy {you think?} full-throttled, all-out spaced-out head-spinning piece that'll give you more fuzz guitar than your brain will know what to do with. Entire CD appears to be focused on a 'mystic ambient' vibe. Most DEFINITELY recommended.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I saw Acid Mothers Temple in their original four-piece line up just a few days after buying this album and initially thought there was no way they could be as good live. I was wrong! What a wild bunch of Japanese hippies they are. The most powerfully hypnotic gig I've ever been to. It provided a fully satisfying counterpoint to the smooth luxuriousness of Crystal Rainbow Pyramid, which is just about as good as space rock albums get. The chaotic wall-of-sound quality of their live performances is very much present but the very high calibre of musicianship also shines through. Like their peers (Hawkwind, Gong etc) AMT are not shy of playing the same chord for literally hundreds of bars, but where they differ is in the flavour and tone they manage to tweak out of such drone-based passages. In many places the playing is very subtle and easily missed in context of the squealing, thrashing psychedelic noise for which AMT are famed. The moods and variations a single track moves through is astonishing. An excellent example is "Electric Psilocybin Flashback", which contains blissed-out, sweet-as-pie vocals, a breathtaking extended sax solo, feedback aplenty and an arrangement that can only be described as "tectonic". The impact this band are having on the global psych scene cannot be underestimated and this album is a fine example of what they can do.
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