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Kawabata Makoto - The Tales Of The Dream Planet [House Pig - 2009]

“The Tales Of  The Dream Planet” finds Acid Mother Temples head guitarist & main honcho Kawabata Makoto offering up two lengthy and extremely mellow and drifting slices of ambient guitar scaping that’s prefect for meditative or extremely stoned states.

Opening  up the album we have the longest track here “She Came From the Shining Planet” which is just over the forty six minute mark. And the tracks built around a quiet and highly meditative electric guitar drone which Kawabata heady feeds back into it’s self to create this glowing and warming mass of shimmering golden sound. At times the  track sounds like distant yet harmonic orchestral  tuning up, and at others it sounds like the  riseing and ebbing of sonic sun rays shimmering through the air.  For most of the tracks running time Kawabata warmly circles and swirls the same collection of drone textures over & over again, but around about the thirty third minute mark this sustain, ringing &  slightly sawing string like swooning drone is added, and  this just  seems to pull you deeper & deeper into the tracks hypnotic structure . So a really great opening track that really mangers to suck you deep into

Second and lastly we have the just less than seventeen minutes of “Kiss on the Dream”. This track is a bit more sparse and stripped to start with. It all starts with this single fading then growing  simmer of warming ambient guitar tone. As the track goes on a few new ebbing ‘n’ glowing ambient tones are added in, along with a distant yet warming drone like call which stays pretty much constant through-out the track. Again this is another very rewarding and entrance slice of meditative guitar texturing.

Having been a fan of AMT’s distinctive and psychedelic sound  craft for some years, I'm ashamed to admit that this is my first taster of Kawabata solo work and I must say I’m very, very impressed with both tracks on offer here. So if you dig warming, trance inducing drone matter this is very worth your time.

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Roger Batty
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