Wandering Oak: Acid Mothers Temple (JP)
Schedule
Fri May 09 2025 at 07:00 pm to 11:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
The Common Room of the Great North | Newcastle Upon Tyne, EN
Wandering Oak brings you:Acid Mothers Temple
plus Monde UFO
at The Common Room Of The Great North
Tickets: https://www.seetickets.com/event/acid-mothers-temple/the-common-room-of-the-great-north/3235427 • https://link.dice.fm/U246a7431e78
• Acid Mothers Temple • (Japan. Riot Season Records)
Over the last 25 years no group has been more prolific or dedicated to pushing psychedelic rock to its limits than Japan's Acid Mothers Temple - a psychedelic band (also considered a soul collective and freak-out band), the core of which formed in 1995 as Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O..
The band was created by guitarist Kawabata Makoto after the hiatus of Mainliner and early in their career featured many musicians, but by 2004 the line-up had drastically changed. The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. broke up briefly while Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno formed with a harder, heavier psych-rock sound until the former group re-formed with different vocalists and various guests in 2006. Many more side bands and projects under the Acid Mothers Temple name have formed throughout the years with other iterations and variations on psychedelic but all bands are considered a part of Acid Mothers Temple according to Kawabata Makoto.
The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. alone has over forty studio albums while the other incarnations all have at least one other studio effort under their belt. Acid Mothers Temple have been releasing studio and live releases along with touring relentlessly since 1995 whether through labels like PSF and Important or through their own Acid Mothers Temple imprint. The band is also notable for their Acid Mothers Temple Festival, held every year since 2002 and showcasing special performances.
The band consider themselves as a collective as many musicians have come to collaborate with the outfit over their lengthy existence such as Kinski, Guru Guru, Gong and Yoshida Tatsuya of Ruins to scratch the surface. Their music is typically themed around open psychedelia, song parodies, comedy, sex and professional wrestling.
FFO Les Rallizes Denudes / Mainliner / GNOD
http://acidmothers.com/
• Monde UFO • (USA. Fire Records)
In a downtown Los Angeles warehouse, on 7th Street, Ray Monde began writing songs on an old Yamaha church organ for a project that eventually became Monde UFO. Utilizing the organ as a bass, alongside keyboards and a drum machine, he began making demos on a four-track cassette recorder, adding only vocals and guitar to the organ pieces. He explored making haunting and optimistic sounds while living in Skid Row as a one-man band. Heavily influenced by the musician Sandy Bull, sonically landing in a similar no-man’s land of Worldly Jazz and Psych Folk. Monde experimented with the themes mostly of meditation and UFO lore.
In time Ray moved in with the artist Kris Chau. With little crossover in musical tastes, they exclusively started listening to jazz, ambient and new age music in the house. Increased interest in sound baths and experimental music led to seeing music in a different light. Ray thought it would be interesting to add Chau into his slow burner music project envisioning something that would sound like Don Cherry making a record with Yo La Tengo. Chau, with no previous musical experience, would play a sacral singing bowl mic’d up though various guitar pedals and singing. Ray would write songs that fit these 436hz drones and in addition to the old drum machines added modal jazz alternatives to more limited song structures. By incorporating Kris, a non-musician, there was an added emphasis on simplicity and an innocence akin to Beat Happening and K records. Alongside a Community-College taught conservatory-rejected jazz musician the duo reached back to a more youthful punk foundation; without over rehearsing, they empathized more on creativity than virtuosity.
https://mondeufo.bandcamp.com/
Advance tickets available via See Tickets:
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and via DICE:
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The Common Room Of The Great North
North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers
Neville Hall
Westgate Rd
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 1SE
For ages 16+ (accompanied by an adult) / 18+ only, from 7:00pm
Where is it happening?
The Common Room of the Great North, 5 Quarter Cafe Bar, Orchard Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1, United Kingdom,Newcastle upon Tyne
