Acid Mothers Temple

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. was formed in 1995 by Makoto Kawabata at the same time as the Acid Mothers Temple Soul Collective. The group released its debut album in 1997 on PSF Records (Japan), and it was selected as one of the year's best albums in The Wire magazine (UK). In 1998 the group played their first tours of the US and Europe. Since then the group has released a huge number of albums on labels from many different countries. As of 2017, the group has released around 80 albums. Every year since 1998, they have toured extensively in the US and Europe, and more recently have started performing around Asia and in Japan too.

The group has performed in collaboration with many musicians including psychedelic originators Gong and Guru Guru, Simeon (Silver Apples), Nik Turner (Hawkwind), and the Occitanian trad sinder Rosina de Peira. Japanese collaborators have included Afrirampo, Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins), Maso Yamazaki (Masonna), Seiichi Yamamoto (Boredoms), Jun Kuriyama (The Ox), and many others.

To begin with the group had a floating line-up with contributions from many members of the AMT Soul Collective. But as tours became more frequent, the group began to coalesce around a core touring line-up. Other bands were created with Acid Mothers Temple as part of their name (AMT & The Cosmic Inferno, AMT SWR, AMT & The Space Paranoid, Acid Mothers Gong, Acid Mothers Guru Guru, etc.), but AMT & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. has continued to function as the mothership and main lineage for all our activities.

In 2016, 21 years since the group's founding, there was a major shift in the line-up and "Next Generation" was added to the name. We now view the first 20 years as chapter one in our story, and we are now turning the page to start chapter two.

The group played more than 100 shows in each year, toured in Europe, North America, South America, Oceania, and Asia, also Japan. They also played many festivals (Glastonbury Festival in UK, Levitation in US and France, Rock In Opposition in France, Standon Calling in UK, Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival in Malaysia, LUC fest 貴人散步音樂節 in Taiwan, etc).

During the COVID pandemic, they launched their official Bandcamp, have released more than 60 albums (including many unreleased materials), and have toured in Japan in each year. And they played the streaming festival “Levitation Sessions”. They organized “Acid Mothers Olympic 2021” against “Tokyo Olympics 2021”, they originated and played a new style of “music sports”.

The current touring line-up is: Kawabata Makoto (the founder member), Higashi Hiroshi (the founder member), Satoshima Nani, Jyonson Tsu, and Sawano Shozo.

Past Shows


May
4
th
2023
Turf Club
May
4
th
2023
Turf Club

Acid Mothers Temple

with My Education
Feb
24
th
2021
7th St Entry
Feb
24
th
2021
7th St Entry
Apr
11
th
2019
Turf Club
Apr
11
th
2019
Turf Club

Acid Mothers Temple

with Yamantaka // Sonic Titan and Cock E.S.P.
Apr
12
th
2018
Turf Club
Apr
12
th
2018
Turf Club

Acid Mothers Temple

with YOO DOO RIGHT and Black Satori
May
4
th
2017
7th St Entry
May
4
th
2017
7th St Entry

Acid Mothers Temple

with BABYLON
Mar
27
th
2016
7th St Entry
Mar
27
th
2016
7th St Entry

Acid Mothers Temple

with ORPHAN GOGGLES
Apr
27
th
2015
7th St Entry
Apr
27
th
2015
7th St Entry

Acid Mothers Temple

with ST 37
May
16
th
2014
7th St Entry
May
16
th
2014
7th St Entry

Acid Mothers Temple

with PERHAPS
May
2
nd
2013
7th St Entry
May
2
nd
2013
7th St Entry

Acid Mothers Temple

with TJUTJUNA
Apr
21
st
2012
7th St Entry
Apr
21
st
2012
7th St Entry

Acid Mothers Temple

with Phantom Family Halo
Apr
5
th
2011
7th St Entry
Apr
5
th
2011
7th St Entry

Acid Mothers Temple

with Shilpa Ray

More Shows

Jun
8
th
Turf Club

Arcwelder

with Products Band
Jun
19
th
7th St Entry

Queef Jerky

May
10
th
7th St Entry

Kash'd Out

with Dale and the ZDubs
Jun
23
rd
Turf Club

Chuck Prophet

with The Suitcase Junket