| Hotter and muggier than sh*t in the underground | | | | bottle as percussions, and shouting their brand |
| subway, 3 musicians (YoshidaTatsuya from Ruins, | | | | names over and over as the "songs," the show is |
| Tsuyama Atsushi and Kawabata Makoto from | | | | performed under the concept of low cost and |
| Acid Mothers Temple) form 7 units!! A cappella, | | | | maximum sound effect. AKATEN is the |
| comic free form, progressive core, troubadour, | | | | experimental convenience store punk band that |
| cosmic psychedelic. The smell is infamous and it | | | | provides the sound images of cheap and simple |
| came through with an underground night of music | | | | daily lives.- RUINS ALONE (Yoshida)RUINS is |
| that was not to be forgotten.These three | | | | pioneer of Drum & Bass duo. Tunes are |
| virtuosos continue to amaze. Hot off the plane | | | | complicated and mysterious, and songs are sung |
| from their sold out show in SF they arrived in | | | | in the language of their own invention. It's |
| manic style to provide a sweaty crowd the lovely | | | | high-tension, wild, heavy, speedy, acute, and |
| feelings of humor, sadness and mind blowing rock. | | | | powerful tremendous ensemble never sounds like |
| I had never seen Yoshida drum and when he did | | | | they are only two players. since last bassist left |
| his Ruins solo set it blew my mind. His one handed | | | | Yoshida still seeking a bassist and currently he has |
| snare, his ability to switch genres mid song, his | | | | been playing as RUINS ALONE. playing RUINS |
| use of a sampler made me so happy that I was | | | | songs with sampling bass. this time Yoshida will |
| there as a witness. His powerful drumming was | | | | play songs from Koenji Hyakkei and Korekyojinn |
| too amazing.I couldn't wait to see the final set of | | | | too.- ZOFFY (Tsuyama/Kawabata)Formed in |
| AMT SWR with that kind of attack and it didn't | | | | 1998. Zoffy's music hints both at the members' |
| let me down. All the sets were fairly short | | | | deep musical knowledge via their improvised |
| including the AMT SWR set and played at a faster | | | | performances of troubadour music and European |
| tempo than most of their other shows as the | | | | trad, and also at their deep love for rock via their |
| Melting Paraiso or the Cosmic Inferno. Pink Lady | | | | destructivist covers of classic rock songs, that no |
| Lemonade has been a staple of the AMT set for | | | | longer sounds like anything but ZOFFY. The group |
| a while now and I was happy to hear it buzzing | | | | believes that humor is essential in music, and their |
| from Makotos guitar at record pace. It was a | | | | unprecedented performances stray far from the |
| short intro with the melody and then quickly into | | | | beaten track. Is this the Ultima Thule that rock |
| psychadelia and then nearly as quickly it was back | | | | music has long been |
| into the melody line short and smiling and sweet. | | | | aiming for?- SHRINP WARK (Kawabata |
| The musicians were in a sauna on stage and the | | | | Yoshida)A new improvising duo consisting of |
| crowd had it worse. It was packed and sweaty | | | | Yoshida from Ruins and Kawabata from AMT. |
| and hot like good old LA.The other acts consisted | | | | group inspired by This Heat and band name taken |
| of combinations of the three gurus in a singing trio | | | | from their song "Shrink Wrap". Cosmic chemical |
| grouped around one mic, a silly set from | | | | reaction sound that embraces a multidimensional |
| Tsuyama and Yoshida playing everyday items | | | | chaos based upon the principles of minimalism, an |
| with contact mics (including zipper song, | | | | anarchistic warping of the time axis, and |
| toothbrushing song, scissor song and drinking | | | | ultra-accelerated revolving of time particles.- ACID |
| song) a set of very famous cover songs, and | | | | MOTHERS TEMPLE SWR (Kawabata/Tsuyama |
| some really nice ambient violin drone work from | | | | Yoshida)Acid Mothers Temple have rapidly |
| Makoto.These guys did this 9 show tour on an | | | | become acclaimed as the greatest, most |
| around the world plane ticket and every stop was | | | | extreme trip psychedelic group in the world. |
| a 24 hour layover. We all wanted to go drinking | | | | Releases have appeared on labels around the |
| but they were staying at a hotel near LAX to | | | | world at an amazing pace, and the magnificence |
| catch an early flight for their first show in Mexico | | | | of their live performances is already being |
| City.Here's a list of the bands and their | | | | whispered of as legendary. SWR is the AMT |
| descriptions that played the festival:- ZUBI ZUVA | | | | Family's most powerful battle-formation yet. |
| X (Yoshida/Tsuyama/Kawabata)Eccentric | | | | featuring Tsuyama and Kawabata from the |
| poly-rhythmic a cappella ensemble. It covers from | | | | original AMT and Yoshida from Ruins. their |
| Gregorian chant to ethnic music, to do-wop to | | | | crushingly acute freakout sound will pulverize the |
| hardcore screaming, heavily using irregular | | | | world's legions of wannabe psych groups.- |
| rhythms and polyrhythm. All sorts of ideas and | | | | SEIKAZOKU (Kawabata/Tsuyama |
| aberrant musicality overturn the image of a | | | | Yoshida)Formed in 1996. The expansive musicality |
| cappella. their totally meaningless lyrics and | | | | of the group, which |
| desperate performances throw the audiences into | | | | nonchalantly references classic prog and rock, |
| the abyss of the laughter and admiration. it makes | | | | ethnic music, jazz and |
| the concept | | | | contemporary composition, is backed up the |
| of "singing ability"nonsense.- AKATEN (Tsuyama | | | | three members' impressive backgrounds and the |
| Yoshida)Formed in 1995 with the motto of | | | | depth of their musical knowledge. Improvised |
| "irresponsibleness" and "perfunctoriness." They | | | | music for holy trinity heresy that runs the full |
| easily free themselves from the spell of the | | | | gamut of ethnic and electric instruments, primitive |
| traditional seriousness of the art. Using daily | | | | stupidity, the suspicious stench of medieval |
| commodities like | | | | alchemy, the raw power of early rock music, all |
| scissors, toothbrush, zipper, camera, and plastic | | | | leavened with a pinch of cosmic incoherency. |