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Acid Mothers Temple SWR & Umezu Kazutoki

Sax & The City

Acid Mothers Temple SWR & Umezu Kazutoki: Sax & The City (Magaibutsu)

A live multitrack recording from 2009 of the collaboration of Acid Mothers Temple SWR - Kawabata Makoto, Tsuyama Atushi, and Yoshida Tatsuya - with saxophonist Umezu Kazutoki.
 

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Yoshida Tatsuya-drums, keyboards, vocals

Tsuyama Atsushi-bass, flute, vocal

Kawabata Makoto-guitar, guitar, synthesizer

Umezu Kazutoki-alto sax, clarinet, bass clarinet

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UPC: 4543034027170

Label: Magaibutsu
Catalog ID: DQC-613 / MGC-37
Squidco Product Code: 13980

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: Japan
Packaging: Cardstock 3 page foldover
Recorded live at Akihabara Goodman on January 25th, 2009 by Yoshida Tatsuya
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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)
1/5/2026

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