Acid Mothers Temple - Electric Heavyland
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Artist: Acid Mothers TempleEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-01-01
Music Label: Alien8 Recording
Soundtracks:
- Atomic Rotary Grinding God/Quicksilver Machine Head
- Loved and Confused
- Phantom of Galactic Magnum
Free Music Notes for Electric Heavyland
Free Music Review: The dark heart of psych
Hit: 5 Stars
The funny thing about psychedelic music is that the best stuff doesn't need drugs at all. I don't think I'd dare listen to Electric Heavy Land on anything stronger than green tea.
I respect the opinion of some fans who think that AMT were starting to suffer from over-exposure and over-production by this time (not long after, Kawabata admitted that this phase of the group had really burned itself out, and Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO (to give the outfit its full title) morphed into Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno). Personally I don't think the fatigue set in until after 'Electric Heavyland'. It mightn't be their most varied or original album, but I can't imagine a band sounding less jaded!
Much has been made of Kawabata's guitar heroics, and sure enough his fretwork on Electric Heavy Land could skin a rhinoceros. But Tsuyama Atsushi's volcanic bass is at the core of the sound -- he does for AMT what Lemmy did for Hawkwind until the rest of the band got scared of him. In fact, imagine what the darker, more frenetic parts of 'Space Ritual Live' would sound like with Hendrix on guitar (and totally in-your-face production -- none of Absolutely Freakout!'s studiously retro echo-chamber ambience here) and you'll get a fair idea of the sort of racket AMT are making ... only much, much further out.
Or is it further IN? The three long, Stygian tracks on EHL go to places I always wished 70s psych rock would go -- and most of those places sound like the earth's core. Yes, it's one-dimensional. Yes, it's basically just a bunch of heads wigging out. But when the heads are as expanded as these, a one-dimensional wig-out can be a very wonderful thing indeed. Just make sure it's not your only AMT album.
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