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RG Rough / Makoto Kawabata [VINYL RSD]

A Record Store Day 2020 LP of the collaboration between Acid Mothers Temple guitarist Kawabata Makoto and French/British multi-instrumentalis RG Rough, using guitar drones, electronics, concrete sounds and percussion to create a sonic junble, occasionally soothed by a near-lullaby, only to be subsumed by a cascade of strings or fades into a repetitive minimal piano figure.

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Personnel:

Kawabata Makoto-electric guitar

RG Rough-electronics

Lea Claessens-violin

Ren Karlmann-drums

Jfg-vocals

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UPC: 769791976351

Label: Bam Balam Records
Catalog ID: BBLP 074LP
Squidco Product Code: 28732

Format: LP
Condition: New
Released: 2020
Country: France
Packaging: LP

Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

"RSD 2020 release. A collaboration between Makoto Kawabata (leader of the legendary Japanese psychedelic band, Acid Mothers Temple ) and the French/British multi-instrumentalist RG Rough. The pair create an unsettling sonic jungle in which Makoto's guitar drones multiply, intertwine, and collide with a wide variety of electronic and concrete sounds and percussion. On two occasions a soft, sleepy sounding voice comes out of nowhere and whispers a strange lullaby which soon disappears under a cascade of strings or fades into a repetitive minimal piano figure..."-Bam Balam Records

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"Kawabata Makoto (河端一) is a Japanese musician and founding member of the band Acid Mothers Temple.

Kawabata is chiefly famous for his leadership of Acid Mothers Temple and its variants; however, he has also played in many other bands since the start of his career in the late 1970s. Some of these bands are: Baroque Bordello; Toho Sara; Erochika; Tsurubami; Musica Transonic; Mainliner; Mothers of Invasion; Nishinihon; Floating Flower."

-Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawabata_Makoto)
12/9/2025

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"RG Rough is a British musician, currently living in Cologne (Germany). He has played in a number of Experimental / Rock bands in England and Germany and is now concentrating on solo recordings and experimentation as well as on a project with his friend John Precise, an artist living in London, with whom he has played and recorded on and off for a decade or so."

12/9/2025

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Track Listing:

SIDE A

1. Running Underwater 19:24

SIDE B

1. Washed Up On The Shore 19:30

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