Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
Schedule
Thu, 16 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
1159 24th Street Des Moines IA 50311 | Des Moines, IA
xBk presentsAcid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
w/ The Macks
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16
Doors: 6pm | Show: 7pm
All Ages
Day of Show Ticket: $25 + fees
*Limited seating available on a first come, first served basis. If you require ADA accommodations please reach out to [email protected]*
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•• ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O. ••
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 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 singer 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, AMT & Infinity Rising Zero, Acid Mothers Gong, Acid Mothers Guru Guru, Acid Moon Temple, 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, twenty one 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 twenty 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 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”.
Finally the group went to the first European tour in Autumn 2022 and North American tour in Spring and Autumn 2023, after pandemic. 2024, the group will tour in Europe in Spring and North America in Autumn.
The current touring line-up is: Kawabata Makoto, Higashi Hiroshi, Satoshima Nani, Sawano Shozo and Jyonson Tsu since 2022.
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. :
Kawabata Makoto : guitar, speed guru
Higashi Hiroshi : synthesizer, fishin’god
Jyonson Tsu : vocal, guitar, bouzouki, midnight whistler
Satoshima Nani : drums, another dimension
Sawano Shozo : bass, hex man
•• THE MACKS ••
Portland-based DIY grinders The Macks unleash rock-n-roll earworms soaked in a delirious cacophony of jumpy wails and garage sonics.
•• HEAVY GRATITUDE ••
Heavy Gratitude started in 2016 as a solo project for Kyler Vande Kieft, after retiring the decade long rotating member/Dadaist noise project, mediumPENIS. Over the years it has developed into a 4 piece group with Huxley Madeline, Chelséa Foxx and James Dean Brittenson, based out of Des Moines, IA. Heavy Gratitude has been described as sentimental occult noise, and have been compared to acts like Throbbing Gristle and Yellow Swans. Their live show is unpredictable, improvisational and often contemplative. They have performed guerrilla sets around the state of Iowa, including one at The Trucker Jamboree at The World’s Largest Truckstop in Walcott, IA. Their previous work has been made available through tape by Warm Gospel (The Cemetery Tape, recorded live at Oakland Cemetery in Iowa City and Woodland Cemetery in Des Moines) and Personal Archive (split with Sex Funeral, recorded at Reliable Street and on campus at Iowa State University in Ames). Their newest release, A REVERIE IN A COUNTRY CHURCH, was recorded in a rural Wisconsin church and marks the first time their recordings have been made available for streaming.
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ADD ON OPTIONS
(does not include tickets for the show)
A limited amount of reserved tables are offered for this event if you'd like to ensure that you have seats. Reserved tables can comfortably accommodate up to a party of four individuals. Please note that the Reserved Table Add-On does not include a general admission ticket; each person must have their own general admission ticket for entry. For example, a party of three people would want to purchase three general admission tickets and one table. For the remaining tables, seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Option #1: Floor High-Top Side Table : $50 (+ Fees)
Option #2: Premium Balcony High Top Table: $50 (+ Fees)
