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Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO

Black Mountain Side

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO: Black Mountain Side (Rolling Heads)

With more than a hundred albums behind them, Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO unleash another ecstatic journey, a studio album blending swirling psychedelia, trance-inducing drones, cosmic synths, and Kawabata Makoto's searing guitar with hurdy-gurdy textures from Tomo Katsurada, heavy bass from Taigen Kawabe and soaring vocal layers, a kaleidoscopic ritual of boundless imagination.
 

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Taigen Kawabe-bass, voice

Satoshima Nani-drums

Kawabata Makoto-guitar

Tomo Katsurada-Hurdy Gurdy

Higashi Hiroshi-synthesizer

Jyonson Tsu-voice

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UPC: 5051996000326

Label: Rolling Heads
Catalog ID: RH 003CD
Squidco Product Code: 36396

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: UK
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded between 2021 and 2023 at the Acid Mothers Temple, in Japan, by Kawabata Makoto.
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Artist Biographies

Taigen Kawabe is a London-based Japanese bassist and vocalist, primarily known for his work with Bo Ningen, whose fierce noise-rock performances have earned them cult status. He's also recorded with Mainliner and, as Ill Japonia, explores experimental trap, reimagining his musical roots through genre-fluid solo work.

-Squidco 10/29/2025

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Nani Satoshima is a Japanese drummer, born in Kobe. He is a member of groups Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO, Amazon Saliva, Bogulta, Human Shower, Nanycal Z, Nokemono, Psyche Bugyo, Zuinosin.

-Discogs.com (https://www.discogs.com/artist/1038840-Nani-Satoshima)
10/29/2025

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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)
10/29/2025

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Tomo Katsurada is a Japanese multi-instrumentalist and composer -mdash; formerly the lead singer and creative director of Kikagaku Moyo -mdash; now based in Amsterdam. His solo project Dream of the Egg blends music with illustrated storytelling, housed within his Future Days Shop, and reflects a shift toward intimate, handmade sonic expression.

-Squidco 10/29/2025

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Synthesizer/keyboardist Higashi Hiroshi (東洋之) was borin in Kochi, Shikoku, Japan, and is a member Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., Tsurubami, Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno, Pardons. Acid Mothers Gong, Acid Mothers Kaidan, Acid Mothers Temple & Space Paranoid, Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno, Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO, Dip Apple, Galax, Godman, Tsurubami, Uchu.

-Squidco / Discogs 10/29/2025

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"Jyonson Tsu. Born in 1980. Started playing in the late 90s. Has played guitar, bass and mandolin in many bands, touring frequently in Japan and Europe. His progressive, theatrical solo shows on classical guitar and vocals, using his own invented language, have attracted great reviews.

-Acid Mother's Temple website (http://acidmothers.com/jyonson-tsu-will-joint-acid-mothers-temple-the-melting-paraiso-u-f-o-as-our-new-vocalist-guitarist-from-2018.html)
10/29/2025

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