New studio album out Monday (Oct 31st) so forgive me as i attempt to pimp it ...
artist: ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O.
title: 'The Ripper At The Heaven's Gates Of Dark'
catalogue # REPOSECD030/REPOSELP030
format: CD (First edition comes packaged in a 350gsm card gatefold sleeve) Limited Edition 500 Only 2xLP
label: Riot Season
online: riotseason.bigcartel.com
Release Info :
The renowned Japanese Cosmic freak-out heavyweights return with a brand new studio album and tour, 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 (bass/vocals), Higashi Hiroshi (synthesizer/guitar) and Shimura Koji (drums). The collective recorded the album in the aftermath of the Japan disaster at their mountaintop retreat where the collective still reside.
With the exception of the album's opener 'Chinese Flying Saucer' and it's unashamedly obvious musical references to Led Zeppelin II (hello 1969!) the rest of the album locks into a much more laid-back groove than on recent AMT releases. This dynamic shift is best displayed on the 22 minute jam, 'Shine On You Crazy Dynamite' and also the album's closer 'Electric Death Mantra'. The band opt for less frantic explosions of electric guitar overload and fuzz, replacing those elements with a more epic, blissed-out and at times brooding Japanese psychedelia, with more emphasis on acoustic guitars, sitar, organ, synthesiser and at times, really trippy vocals (most prevalent on 'Back Door Man Of Ghost Rails Inn'), recalling the twisted psychedelics of early Pink Floyd. Yet still, their sound remains so expansive that it is easy to become totally immersed in this album.
Epic in proportions, cloaked in a cosmic haze and shimmering in a synth utopia. 'The Ripper At Heaven's Gates Of Dark' maintains AMT's status as masters of out-of-this-world music and reveals their darker side of the moon.
CD is limited to 1500 copies, and is packaged in a special first edition 350gsm card gatefold sleeve. Repress will be in standard sleeve.
Double vinyl edition limited to 500 copies for the world and features slightly different sleeve artwork.
You can listen to two songs from it via crappy youtube vids below
'Chakra 24'
http://youtu.be/ThTOiOT-WaI
'Chinese Flying Saucer'
http://youtu.be/1sd0uuy6X9A
PS : CD is ready, vinyl delayed slightly. Awaiting exact delivery date as I type ... bah
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