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Acid Mothers Reynols — Vol. 3
(Bandcamp VHF Records, 2024, LP / DL)

by Henry Schneider, Published 2024-10-15

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The next set of recordings from the 2017 meeting between Acid Mothers Temple and the Argentinian band Reynols is now released as Vol. 3. For this collection of four tracks it sounds by and large as if they were freaking out in the studio and experimenting much like Zweistein’s eponymous Trip-Flipout-Meditation, Frank Zappa at his freakiest on Freak Out!, and Amon Düül II’s weirdness on Phallus Dei and Yeti. Vol.3 kicks things off with the random psychedelic clashing of sounds, “Kicking Air Bricks.” Squeals, squeaks. clangs, and scrapes slowly come together along with an emerging beat, banging piano chords, and a throbbing bass line. Eventually the percussion groove takes over and this improv track morphs into a full-out freaky psych jam. Next is “Multiverse Turtle Reflex,” a suitably meaningless psychedelic title for this relatively calm piece that develops in to mechanical drones and cosmic ambient machinery to end with revving intergalactic overdrives. Next is “Smelling Oneiric Asado,” this time with organ, some odd singing. and pseudo chanting, sounding like a subdued and laid back Obscured by Clouds era Pink Floyd. The album ends with “Lemurian Tsunami Inside a Hat,” an eerie intro with savage guitar feedback leading to organized chaotic cyclic music that grows for the first half of its thirteen minutes. Abruptly these crazed musicians shift to a four-note strum and some Spanish phrases, which then shifts to a new cyclic riff that turns into a crazed psych jam like a very abstract “Interstellar Overdrive.” Now seven years on and three volumes of music, one wonders if there is still more music to be released by this meeting of these two unique bands.

Filed under: New releases, 2024 releases

Related artist(s): Acid Mothers Temple, Makoto Kawabata, Reynols, Hiroshi Higashi, Anla Courtis

More info
http://vhfrecords.bandcamp.com/album/vol-3

 

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