We still have a few posters for the Kawabata Makoto performance left. While supplies last, you can get a free screen printed poster made for us by Broken Press. All you have to do is buy something by Kawabata or Acid Mothers Temple or make a purchase over $20 and we will give you a poster. It’s really beautiful and only 50 copies were made. So rush on down and grab yours before they are history!
FREE IN STORE PERFORMANCEFRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2009
7:00 PM
KAWABATA MAKOTO
?ALOS
AERIAL RAIN
Founder of Acid Mothers Temple Soul Collective, Kawabata Makoto has been recording and touring for 30+ years. His projects and collaborations have brought him all over the globe, working with many prolific artists along the way such as Keiji Haino, Mani Neumeier(Guru Guru), Daevid Allen(Gong), Damo Suzuki(Can) and Kinski. From beautiful ambient dreamscapes to full blown psychedelic freakouts by way of sonic experimentation(often in the same song!), Kawabata’s music is as unrestrained as it is inspired.
Where do these sounds come from? Who is sending them out? That is not something for me to know, and neither is there any way that I could find out. I simply believe that they come from the ‘cosmos’.
-Kawabata Makoto
Kawabata Makoto leads prolific psych-rock behemoths Acid Mothers Temple, but on his own he often opts for beatific guitar emanations that suggest a strict regimen of Zen Buddhist meditation rather than AMT’s grandiloquent jamming and sonic holocausts. You could say the man loves his extremes. The INUI series of albums Kawabata’s recorded for VHF Records—as well as I’m in Your Inner Most and Hosanna Mantra—stands as a beautiful, solemn monument to his mellower inclinations, but you should probably bring earplugs, just in case the Japanese ax master gets into one of his ornery moods. Bonus: Dissonant Plane will give you a limited-edition poster to commemorate this event with any Kawabata/Acid Mothers–related purchase or any $20-plus purchase of merchandise.
- DAVE SEGAL in The Stranger
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Cool new things on our shelves:
Ambient/Drone:
Taiga Remains / RV Paintings LP (Blackest Rainbow Records) $18 - lush organic soundscapes; w/Brian of Starving Weirdos
Wada, Yoshi “Earth Horns With Electronic Drone” CD (EM Records) $20 - 1st release of awesome 1974 drone piece
Doom Metal:
Bong / Quttinirpaaq LP (Blackest Rainbow Records) $18 - split of doom that sounds like early Skullflower, ltd 300
Grails “Doomsdayer’s Holiday” LP (Temporary Residence Limited) $18 - guest vocals by Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls)
Experimental:
Bjerga, Sindre & Horton, Robert “Can’t Go Fast Enough To Get There Early” CD (Blackest Rainbow Records) $17 - warm and fuzzy noise drones, ltd. 264
Conrad, Tony & Olson, Tovah “Let There Be Music” LP (Tovinator) $15 - ltd 200, instantly sold out from the label, one side only
Ichiyanagi, Toshi “Electronic Field” CD (Omega Point) $26 - wild electronics from Yoko Ono’s first husband
Master Musicians of Bukkake “The Visible Sign of the Invisible Order” CD (Abduction) $14 - “outsider ceremonial folk masterpiece” w/SCG members
Mechanical Children “I Rise To Cover All” LP (Blackest Rainbow Records) $18 - good industrial noise from Jazzfinger members, ltd 300
Minami, Hiroaki “Obscure Tape Music of Japan Vol. 10: Electronic Symphony No. 1″ CD (Edition Omega Point) $26 - unreleased cosmic analog sounds from ‘76, ltd 500
Moha! “Jeff Carey’s MoHa!” 7″ (Rune Grammofon) $7 - white vinyl, 500 copies, different mixes of both tracks
Nurse With Wound “The Surveillance Lounge” CD (Dirter Promotions) $17 - back to the creaky disturbing sounds of old
Starving Weirdos “B/P/M Series 1″ LP (Blackest Rainbow Records) $20 - piano based experimental like earlier NWW, ltd 500
Tomutonttu CD (Fonal) $17 - Kemialliset Ystävät guy, re of OOP Beta Lactam LP
Tomutonttu CD (Fonal) $17 - Kemialliset Ystävät guy, re of OOP Ultra Eczema LP
Jazz/Improv:
Sun Ra featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold “Live at Judson Hall” CD (ESP Disk) $14 - ultra rare private press LP + 45 min unreleased material
Rock:
Alvarius B. CD (Abduction) $14 - solo wooden guitar by Sun City Girls’ Alan Bishop
Deas, Cam “My Guitar Is Alive And It’s Singing” LP (Blackest Rainbow Records) $18 - gorgeous solo acoustic guitar, ltd 300
Deas, Cam / Spoono “Greetings from the Isle of Man” LP (Blackest Rainbow Records) $18 - gorgeous solo acoustic guitar, ltd 350
Death In June “The World That Summer” CD (NER) $17 - reissue of goth double LP from ‘86 w/David Tibet
Grouper “Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill” LP (IOG) $16 - ethereal folky songs with dream production, orange vinyl
Hawkwind “Space Ritual” 2 x CD (EMI) $17 - monster space rock w/pre-Motorhead Lemmy
Inner Space, The “Agilok & Blubbo OST” CD (Wah Wah Records) $20 - early unreleased pre-Can recordings
Neung Phak “Fucking USA” 7” (Abduction) $9 - great cover of Korean anti-American rock tune, ltd 300
Ong Ong “5″ magazine & CDR (Ong Ong Press) $8 - CDR with private press rarities
Rose, Jack & Black Twig Pickers, The LP (Klang Industries) $19
Sun City Girls “Jacks Creek” CD (Abduction) $16 - reissue of 1995 LP, absolutely off the wall!!!
Sun City Girls “Napoleon & Josephine (Singles Volume 2)” CD (Abduction) $16 - the weird volume with theatrical pieces
Walker, Peter “Rainy Day Raga” LP (Harte Recordings) $16 - lovely mixture of Indian raga & American folk from 1966
World:
Mayet, Hisham “Palace of the Winds” DVD (Sublime Frequencies) $20 - guitars in Morocco! limited edition of 1000 copies
Souleyman, Omar “Dabke 2020: Folk & Pop Sounds of Syria” CD (Sublime Frequencies) $14 - fantastic Arabic pop music that really moves
Various “1970’s Algerian Proto-Rai Underground” CD (Sublime Frequencies) $16 - infectious Algerian music from extremely rare 7’s
I think a good year in the making, Ong Ong #5 is finally out. The product of Lucy Morehouse (part time employee at Wall of Sound) and Scott Davis (Jive Time Records), this is their biggest issue yet comprising of two separate booklets, plus the usual CDR. It’s a real friendly fanzine style affair with lots of artwork and poetry among with the interviews with Eric Isaacson of Mississippi Records, Scott Colburn and Yann Novak. They sum up the other tidbit thus: “Bunnies, friendship bracelets, field hippies, piles of textiles, Czech new wave, alternate realities, tree tops, Hotel art installation, advice, mental institutions, instrument selection, rings of history, people holding hands in a circle, Scott Davis at 17, pure purr energy, tree tops, lotuses, relationships, perception, floating skulls, tripped out line quality, Halley’s comet, fire damage, father figures, show reviews, AFCGT caricatured, snow, ladies with long hair carrying stars, Rumi… coalescence!” A lot of things are very home paste up looking, with Eric Isaacson even handwritting his replies to typewritten interview question. A very DIY effort, the whole is contained in a screen printed cover and tied together with string. The bonus CDR culls 19 tracks from obscure vinyl releases, mostly private press items. The only names you are likely to have heard of before are Bruce Haack and Lightnin’ Hopkins as the rest heads into little known folk and children’s records with a few nice cosmic and prog numbers from Europe through into the middle.
Well, we missed the first batch, but we are on track with the second batch of releases from Gift Tapes. Run by Jason Anderson of Brother Raven, this Seattle label is putting out quality electronic music in limited numbers on cassette only. All three new titles come in double-sided full color covers with nice labels and are C20s. First up is the new Brother Raven entitled “A Sound Like Wailing Winter Winds Is Heard“. If you read this blog, you’ve find a recent reference to a concert they played alongside Magneticring, Pete Swanson and Zaïmph. On that night, the duo had their analog gear out and brought back memories of the numerous releases of electronic music on Sky Records from back in the 1970’s and 1980’s. For those of you who didn’t grow up with those around, I should explain that they put out LPs of gentle, melodic synthesizer music with experimental flourishes. The best known examples from their catalog would be Cluster and the first four albums by Asmus Tietchens. The emphasis here is drifting off into soundworlds, not the sequencer driven drivel of post-Krautrock Tangerine Dream. It is an area that seems to be getting explored more lately by the likes of James Ferraro from The Skaters and others. Brother Raven really nails the cosmic aspects of this stuff though. It seems to the big release in this batch, as “A Sound Like Wailing Winter Winds Is Heard” is limited to 80 copies (and comes with a bonus, gift-wrapped microcassette), while the other two are in editions of only 50 copies. Not that this should suggest these other two are any lesser. “Early To Rise” by Jeremiah Walker carries on in a similar vein albeit with longer tracks that are more of carpet of dreamy sound similar to early Popol Vuh. Really meditative and mystical, perhaps my favorite of the trio. The final new release is by Million Mists and is called “Spaeship” (not “Spaceship”). The most experimental in this set, this tape features a more aleatoric atmosphere on “Crab Pulser” mixing sounds evocative of radio transmissions from distant stellar bodies with the long slow synth sounds you might expect from a sci-fi movie about those regions. It is an interesting contrast as Million Mists is the solo project of Jamie Potter, half of Brother Raven and a former member of Bonus. All in all not a bad moment over the course of three release and the style of music makes the 10 minutes of each side stretch onto infinity in the good way.
