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This is nowhere as good as their La Novia release and nowhere as intense as their fantastic live show, but its a relatively accessible starting point to expore these tripped-out troubadours. The long first track is good indication of the kind of fuzzed out improvisational track that these guys are famous for, but the rest of the album is relatively gentle in comparison. Great psychedelic/folk/noise hybrid, completely irony free (though certainly not humor free, as Tsuyama of Omoide Hatoba fame consistantly proves). I actually like it better than a some of their self-released stuff, but tastes may differ. Rest assured Kawabata, Tsuyama, HACO and the rest are just as great as the hype recently surrounding them, especially in the British 'alternative music' press; whether American audiences (or anyone) will ever get a representative sampling of this great band is anyone's guess, however...Check the great article on these guys in WIRE magazine if you want the full scoop on the band.

After hearing this band being thrown around on various Amazon best of lists, I had to check it out, and I agree with most of the optimism---this is an amazing record that all fans of psychadlic music and acid freaks alike have to check it out. From beginning to end, it's a sprawling endless psycho-space adventure filled with many altered paths and courses. Here's the run-down, chummies:

"Psycho Buddha": An insane, sporadic cosmos rumbler that seems to carry those "verring out of control" moments of other psychadelic bands on for more than 20 minutes. Consistent drumming and distorted guitars and bass keep the beat pulsing, while layers of uncategorizable noise and random instruments (bagpipes for instance) add extra doses of madness to the mayhem. Gotta be heard to be believed.

"Space Age Ballad": Things cool down considerably here, but with no less emotion. A meandering electronic drone melody wanders about while a haunting ghost from ions ago plays a lost melody with voice and guitar. Good stuff.

"You're Still Now Near Me Everytime": A beautiful blissed-out rock song with grungy female vocals and top notch guitar from Kawabuta. Morphs into a several minute guitar solo freakout that, while not nearly as wild as Psycho Buddha and Occie Lady, is still very moving. My favorite track.

"Universe Of Romance": A similar mixture of washes of meandering noises, simple instrumentation, and ghostly vocals to Space Age Ballad but instead of acoustic guitar we have an oriental koto---which makes the ancient trip to the past aspect even stronger. Feels like I'm walking around in the gardeney ruins of some forgotten palace.

"Occie Lady": Shakes and thunders like a hurricane. Another nerve shattering psychologically terrorizing freakout trip in the vein of Psycho Buddha. The ending may surprise you.

"Mellow Hollow Love": A pretty space flower ballad done with acoustic guitar and alien vocals while a vintage synthesizer sound adds disconnected confusion to the batch. Real nice and somnambulant.

"LIke Heavenly Kisses part 2": By far the best track on the album despite the fact that it doesn't "rock", but it doesn't have to. It sounds like a more emotional response to the beyond words freefloating scene towards the end of 2001 A Space Odyssey. Drones upon drones that detach you into freeform conciousness, and by the end of the performance, you'll be crying to the simple guitar bliss of God. If you love Sigur Ros, you'll love this.

Dogs speak in Spanish turquoise ted transmissions wounded blue quazar told me so soda--Max Headroom

Although this group has been getting a fair amount of press in alt/indy/weird music circles, this CD didn't strike me as the mind-melting extravaganza that their reputation promised. Although it is indeed a noisy and sonically dense affair, I'd hoped for some more groundbreaking directions in what they actually do with all of that sound. The terrain here has already been mapped by the likes of Amon Duul, Hawkwind, Faust, Guru Guru, early Tangerine Dream, and Popol Vuh. The record just didn't make a strong impression on me. All that being said, it's still a decent effort, some of the elements are quite interesting (such as the opening track, a 21-minute freakout layering walls of guitar noise and tribal drumming with violins, bagpipes, synthesizers), and this will definitely have some appeal to aficionados of some of the bands mentioned above. Probably wouldn't hurt to "smoke 'em if you got 'em", as it were, while giving it a listen.

Believe this was the first Acid Mothers CD I ever had. Great to pull it out and listen to again after all this time. Starts off with the twenty-one minute "Psycho Buddha" that sounds maybe sort of like Ministry on acid, really liked the beautifully done "You're Still Now Near Me Everything" (featuring some hot female vocals), the total tripped out "Universe Of Romance" and the intense fifteen-minute "What Do I Want To Know" {certainly not for the sqeamish}. Also worth mentioning is the metallic sounding "Occie Lady". Worthy of many repeated spins - the band's major influences (at least on this title) are clearly early Airplane, Hawkwind, King Crimson and Jimi Hendrix. Highly recommended.

OK, so I am not totally familair with Acid Mothers Temple and their many incarnates, I do have IAO Chant from the Cosmic Inferno (which is basically an hour long version of AMT & The Cosmic Inferno doing Gong's "Master Builder") and Anthem of the Space (also from The Cosmic Inferno). I guarantee you that you'll have plenty of fun finding out what album title(s), album covers, and song titles they're spoofing. I finally got my first Melting Paraiso UFO CD, New Geocentric World of Acid Mothers Temple. This one also really blew me away! I can see not everyone takes to AMT, they can be really extreme and relentless. Their music often received mixed reviews, and true they can remind you any countless groups from Ash Ra Tempel, both Amon Duuls, Hawkwind (Anthem of the Space especially, as the guitar riffs remind me of "Time We Left This World Today"), Gong, Ozric Tentacles, you name it. Not to mention some of the noisy droning can grate on some, but if you don't mind their approach, this group and their many incarnations sure have plenty to offer. "Psycho Buddha" starts off sounding deceptively like a Laurie Anderson recording with that minimalist feel and Cotton Casino repeating the word "what" over and over. But that's barely a minute, then the band kicks into overdrive with this noisy jam that lasts the rest of the piece. But just to be fair, they have their share of mellow pieces like "Space Age Ballad" and "Mellow Hollow Love". There's also another aggressive guitar-oriented jam of "Occie Lady" and the droning of "What Do I Want To Know (Like Heavenly Kisses Part 2)". "You're Still Now Near Me Everytime" bears more than a passing resemblance to Yeti-era Amon Duul II, complete with vocals that remind me of Renate Knaupe. I really can't believe a lot of this was from 2001, a lot of it has that wonderful late '60s/early '70s vibe, but with a much more extreme approach than what many psychedelic, prog, and space rock groups were doing then (mainly because I really believe a lot of the noisy droning this group does would blow out amplifiers that were made 35-40 years ago).

Really, New Geocentric World is a fantastic album of relentless noise and mellow psychedelic space rock that I highly recommend!

if you are new to AMT&TMPUFO then this a pretty good place to start. the first track "Psycho Buddha" is a bit of a testing listening experience. i like the song, but i find myslef skipping it alot of times just because it exhausts me. it's almost like a fuzzed out rock version of Coltrane's "Ascension." the remainder of the album is top notch AMT. some wild electri-fried jams, some spacy droney pieces with beautiful vocals floating and drifting along the cosmos. all drenched in glorious amounts of reverb. 3.5 stars

Not the Best AMT release, but still great, and a must for all psychedelic fans.

It never ceases to amaze me that people find noise so interesting. I bought this CD based on various descriptions using the term "psychedelic" and on some articles I read praising Kawabata (lead guitarist). Before you buy this CD, make sure you listen to the samples. If you like noise, go for it. The first track is about 15 minutes long. You can call it improvisation if by that term you mean 6 or 7 people all playing different instruments at the same time with no coherent unifying theme. ...

Now I like "psychedelic" and spacey music, ... But I can't imagine any drug that would make listening to this a pleasure.