Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO/Escapade- A Thousand Shades of Grey
SKU
05-FUNFUNVIERZIG142
Nice to see worthy NYC-based improvising band Escapade make it into the 'big-time' with this split release with renowned stoners Acid Mothers Temple. "Architecture is frozen music' is one of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer's best-known quotes. Maybe the members of New York-based band Escapade knew this quote. For their two tracks on this album sound very 'constructed'; everything seems to be based on what's been played before. But surprise, surprise: All the band's music is completely improvised and spontaneous. The first track opens with just a few notes on the organ which after about three minutes is joined by guitar feedback. The latter instrument then starts to produce rhythmic sounds and at the five-minute-mark, a monotonous drumbeat introduces itself. Ten minutes after the beginning, the guitar becomes somewhat offensive, but without aspiring to a soloistic heights. What follows is an absolute killer: 28 minutes of Acid Mother's Temple, the Japanese answer to Hawkwind, Motörhead and Grateful Dead combined. Like Escapade, AMT take their time in building up their track. They heap layers upon layers of synth-sounds and weave these together with vocal improvisations into a tapestry of increasing complexity. With this track, they are probably closer to Terry Riley's In C than with their own cover-version of that composition. Here, AMT show that they are capable of expressing their unique 'monsterrock' in a much more subtle form. One minute before the track's end the tension decreases and the listener is washed out into infinitive space with a few spherical sounds."