Makoto Kawabata - AMT CD 001

This is from the Acid Mothers Temple Gold Disc series and finds the

AMT leader, Makato Kawabata in solo mode with two long tracks of

improvised guitar explorations.

Lots of drones, multi layered reverb, distortion, feedback and drifting

harmonics. Unlike, say, Merzbow - these tracks are quite tuneful in their

direction and have an ambient feel that really engages.

In the film "2001", there are several long passages with a choir producing

these eerie moans and groans and Kawabata has massed his guitars to sound

like this - in my head anyway! - in fact, this could be a soundtrack to a battered

old hulk of a space freighter, slowly drifting and slowly breaking up as it gets

pulled into a black hole at the end of the universe.

Listen