Wednesday, April 14th
Cosmic Charlies, Doors @ 8pm; Show @ 10pm. $8 advance. $10 at the door. 21+
Cosmic Charlie’s lives up to their name Wednesday the 14th. That’s when they play host to Acid Mothers Temple, a group of Japanese psychedelic heavyweights as well known for their prolific recording catalogue (having released at least five studio albums in the last year alone) as they are for their phenomenal high energy live shows.
Acid Mothers Temple formed in 1995 under the guidance of guitarist Kawabata Makoto as a musical offshoot of the Acid Mothers Temple soul-collective, a loosely based commune with members spread across Japan. Originally a rotating cast of players, the band’s lineup has congealed over the last ten years into a core group consisting of Kawabata and three others. Their unique style of reverential psychedelia borrows from the usual suspects: Hawkwind, Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, early Black Sabbath and various other early seventies progressive rock groups, all the while not forgetting the Teutons of the continent and co-opting the cream of the Krautrock crop.
All this is then filtered through Japan’s wildly inventive Tokyo Underground scene and its legendary run from the late seventies to the early nineties. The result is a precociously atavistic sound whose uniqueness prove AMT’s continued relevance to the scene.
Now in their fifteenth year together Acid Mothers Temple—whose members are all in their forties or older—show no sign of losing their musical tenacity: their Lexington show is the fourth to last date on a whirlwind tour of 30 concerts in 32 days, during which time the band will have made a full circuit of the U.S. covering both the East and West coasts and much of the Midwest and South, while still managing to fit in one Mexican and two Canadian dates.—Joe Fisher
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