Kawabata Makoto (of Acid Mothers Temple)
Hemlock Tavern
San Francisco CA
June 18, 2008 (Wednesday)

Source: Microtech Gefell M300s (XY, 4' stand, stage lip) > SB 744T
Transfer: SD744T (FW) > G5 Dual Mac (Peak/xAct) > FLACs (level 8)
Recording and mastering by Michael Zelner


1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3 (incl. Pink Lady Lemonade)

One continuous performance, split into three tracks for playback convenience

total time: 28:07


Kawabata Makoto - electric guitar & pedals



"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. However, maybe
because my reception is somewhat off, I am unable to perfectly reproduce
these sounds. That is why I spend my days rehearsing.

Where do these sounds come from? Who is sending them out? That is not
something for me to know, and neither is there any way that I could find
out. I simply believe that they come from the 'cosmos'. (Maybe other
people would call God the source). Since I was a small child I have been
prone to hearing ringing sounds in my ears and other sound phantasms. At
the time, I believed that these were messages aimed directly at me from
a UFO, and so I would gaze up at the sky. But once I started playing
music myself, I came to feel that these noises were a kind of pure
sound. And I promised myself that one day I would be able to play those
sounds myself. It is only recently that I have begun to feel that I have
been able to come close to reproducing these sounds in my solo guitar
work, and in my INUI project.

However, in June of 1999, I finally discovered my own 'cosmos' and I
experienced an instant of total union with it!! That 'cosmos' is still
tiny in size - although any cosmos can, by its very nature, be
infinitely huge or infinitely small. The energy and vibrations contained
within that it far exceeded my imagination in scope and beauty. I can
only describe the miraculous instant when my 'cosmos' accepted my
consciousness as MAGIC."

-- Kawabata Makoto. July 8th 2000


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