Pitchfork: Acid Mothers Temple to Tour

Last month saw the Boredoms finally come to the States for just five dates, not nearly enough for pent-up fans who waited several years to see them. Adding insult to injury, Boredoms have no plans to release a new album anytime soon, so no wish fulfillment will be going on in their end. However, their fellow Japanese freakout-ensemble-- Acid Mothers Temple-- aim to please, and they're about to hit a bullseye. On July 19, Important Records will release Just Another Band From the Cosmic Inferno under the band's latest nomenclature, Acid Mothers Temple & the Cosmic Inferno. This collective was formed after a previous incarnation, Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso UFO, exhausted itself through a grueling schedule of constant recording and touring. Led by guitarist and "speed guru" Mokoto Kawabata, the 30-member strong cooperative of musicians, artists, dancers, and farmers create psychedelic psychoses drawing from Stockhausen, Krautrock, and 70s prog.

Explaining the change, Kawabata says, "We [Kawabata and longtime collaborator Higashi Hiroshi] decided to take the members of Mothers of Invasion and shift them to the new group, giving birth to a new Acid Mothers Temple. Just then I received a transmission from my own cosmos - the group should be named Cosmic Inferno...Thus, on this the 10th anniversary of the founding of Acid Mothers Temple, I announce the birth of the hellchild, Acid Mothers Temple & the Cosmic Inferno." We should only be so lucky to have our own cosmos telling us what to do.

The band is currently touring Europe and has a tour cd available entitled "Another Band From the Cosmic Inferno European Tour 2005" Cosmic Funeral Route 666. Recorded from January to April of this year, the disc has two tracks:

01 Cosmic Funeral Route 666
02 Phantom Fire Ball

Finally, Acid Mothers Temple has announced North American tour dates for this fall. Those in Ontario, New York, Texas, and Florida especially will have multiple chances to listen to their inner cosmos. Dates:

09-16 Ottawa, Ontario - Babylon
09-17 Toronto, Ontario - Legendary Horseshoe Tavern #
09-18 Buffalo, NY - Soundlab
09-27 Seattle, WA - Neumos
09-28 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richards on Richards
09-29 Portland, OR - Berbatis Pan
09-30 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
10-02 San Diego, CA - Casbah
10-06 Salt Lake City, UT - Egos
10-07 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
10-08 Lawrence, KS - The Jackpot Saloon
10-09 Denton, TX - Haileys
10-10 Austin, TX - The Parish
10-11 Houston, TX - Mary Janes Fat Cat
10-13 Tallahassee, FL - The Beta Bar
10-14 Orlando, FL - The Social
10-15 Gainesville, FL - Common Grounds
10-16 Atlanta, GA - The Earl
10-18 Baltimore, MD - Ottobar
10-19 Brooklyn, NY - South Paw
10-20 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church Sanctuary
10-21 New York, NY - Knitting Factory
10-22 Cambridge, MA - Middle East
10-23 New Haven, CT - BAR Nightclub
10-24 Northampton, MA - Pearl Street Nightclub

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Prior to their North American jaunt, the AMT&CI; will be embarking on a journey through much of Europe:

06-02 London, England - Spitz
06-03 Bristol, England - Malcom X Centre (w/ Mark Stewart of the Pop Group)
06-04 Manchester, England - Levenshulme Bowling Club, Burnage Range
06-05 Glasgow, Scotland - Barfly
06-06 Aberdeen, Scotland - The Tunnels
06-07 Liverpool, England - The Vines Public House
06-10 Bern, Switzerland - Dachstock Reitschule
06-11 Geneva, Switzerland - Le Kab
06-12 Vienna, Austria - TBC
06-14 Massa Carrara, Italy - Tagomago
06-15 Rome, Italy - Zoobar
06-16 TBA, Italy - TBC
06-17 Milano, Italy - Open Air Festival
06-18 Tarcento, Italy - Hybrida
06-20 Zagreb, Croatia - KSET
06-28 Helsinki, Finland - Nosturi-Kahvila (w/ Dark Sun)
06-30 Tampere, Finland - Klubi
07-02 France, Paris - MoFo Fest
07-03 Bergamo, Italy - TBC