Kawabata Makoto is a Japan

Japan

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ese musician and founding member of the band and "soul collective" Acid Mothers Temple

Acid Mothers Temple

Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. is a Japanese psychedelic band, the core of which formed in 1995. The band is led by guitarist Kawabata Makoto and early in their career featured many musicians, but by 2004 the line-up had coalesced with only a few core members and frequent guest...

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Band history

Kawabata is chiefly famous for his leadership of Acid Mothers Temple and its variants; however, he has also played in many other bands since the start of his career in the late 1970s. Some of these bands are:

• Baroque Bordello
• Toho Sara
• Erochika
• Tsurubami
• Musica Transonic
• Mainliner
• Mothers of Invasion
• Nishinihon
• Floating Flower

Solo discography

In addition to the many records recorded with bands, Kawabata Makoto has an extensive solo discography. Major releases are:

• The 'Private Tapes' series (1999–2004)
• Inui.1 (2000)
• Inui.2 (2000)
• I'm in Your Inner Most (2001)
• Hosanna Mantra (2007)
• Inui.4 (2007)

Musical philosophy

In 2000, Kawabata wrote "Music, for me, is neither something that I create, nor a form of self-expression. All kinds of sounds exist everywhere around us, and my performances solely consist of picking up these sounds, like a radio tuner, and playing them so that people can hear them."

"When I was a kid, I really loved Ritchie Blackmore

Ritchie Blackmore

Richard Hugh "Ritchie" Blackmore is an English guitarist and songwriter, who was known as one of the first guitarists to fuse Classical music elements with rock. He fronted his own band Rainbow after leaving Deep Purple where he was unhappy because his favourite musical style wasn't adequately...

- not so much the guitar style, just I liked his look, atmosphere, on the stage. Always, he stood on this side [right], also the stratocaster, and black clothes, and very aggressive [playing]. I really loved this image, so I wear just black. Also - easy to co-ordinate!"

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