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***When the standard-bearers of 21st Century psychedelia Acid Mothers Temple merge with experimental originators like the maverick Anglo/French collective Gong, it's total music-- post-industrial nu-psychedelia at its most intense and beguiling. Gong return to the creative fire once more-- to be reborn. From the crucible comes the glorious chaos that had to happen. In February 2003, Kawabata Makoto and Cotton Casino (both of Acid Mothers Temple), with guitarist Josh Pollock (of University of Errors) joined Gong originators Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth, plus drummer-son Orlando Allen and Indonesian bassist Dharmawan Bradbridge in Byron Bay, Australia, to record a new Gong CD together-- an album is like no other in the band's 35-year history. For the first time there are three wildly different guitarists, no sax and, on half the tracks, no bass player. |
