If traditional New Age music gives you the willies or if you are already a fan of vocalists such as Marta Sebestyen or Enya, Madredeus's Teresa Salgueiro will bewitch you with her velvety-smooth chanteuserie backed by a classical guitar duo, acoustic bass, and sythesizers. Madredeus, a quintet of Portuguese musicians, take their name from their former rehearsal space, a convent whose abbreviated moniker translates loosely as "Mother God" or "Holy Mother." And though the material on O Paraiso is not religious, the spirit in which Madredeus make their music is full of reverence and deep affection. The strings are water, the voice is wind. Listening to the record is floating, dancing, swimming, swaying--all while sitting perfectly still. --Paige La Grone
O Paraiso,Madredeus,Blue Note Records,Electronica,Ethnic Fusion,European Folk,Fado,Int'l & World Music,New Age,Pop,Portugal,Portuguese,World Music
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O Paraiso
Madredeus Manufacturer: Blue Note Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00002JX44 Release Date: 1999-07-15 |
Tracks:
- Haja O Que Houver
- Os Dias Sao A Noite
- A Tempestade
- A Andorinha Da Primavera
- Claridade
- A Praia Do Mar
- O Fim Da Estrada
- Agora
- A Margem
- Carta Para Ti
- Coisas Pequenas
- Nao Muito Distante
- O Sonho
- O Paraiso
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If traditional New Age music gives you the willies or if you are already a fan of vocalists such as Marta Sebestyen or Enya, Madredeus's Teresa Salgueiro will bewitch you with her velvety-smooth chanteuserie backed by a classical guitar duo, acoustic bass, and sythesizers. Madredeus, a quintet of Portuguese musicians, take their name from their former rehearsal space, a convent whose abbreviated moniker translates loosely as "Mother God" or "Holy Mother." And though the material on O Paraiso is not religious, the spirit in which Madredeus make their music is full of reverence and deep affection. The strings are water, the voice is wind. Listening to the record is floating, dancing, swimming, swaying--all while sitting perfectly still. --Paige La GroneCustomer Reviews:
Enchanting :.......2006-05-28
Soaring, angelic soprano; soulful guitars, synthesizers.......2006-03-23
I don't understand..........2006-03-21
What I do understand is, for me, this newly discovered sound called fado. This is a mesmerizing tranquil cd that is pure spiritualism. This is some of the finest acoustic guitar ensembles I have heard in quite some time. The angelic voice, haunting at times, is one that enters your viscera.
I started out with one cd, then two, now I must have all of Maderdeus' work. It makes me want to go to Lisbon just to see if there is more of this lurking in the out-of-the-way back alley clubs.
I made the mistake of ordering two of these cd's at the same time. I was going to send one back. But after my wife heard this incredible music she snatched it up and put it in her vehicle.
This music is not for everyone. It is only for one person...you.
Enter fado. Enjoy.
breathtaking, hauntingly beautiful.......2006-01-26
Breathtaking.......2004-08-13
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Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo
Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Manufacturer: Ace Fu Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000QUTRYY Release Date: 2007-06-19 |
Tracks:
- Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo, Pts. 1-9
Customer Reviews:
More?.......2007-07-28
Do I really need another album like that in the krautrock vein? I mean if I want good droney stuff I'd much rather get a Klaus Schulze album than this dull-ish stuff. OR, while we're on the subject, what's wrong with classical? A Mozart symphony soens the same job for me as ART and it's a heck-of-a lot more accomplished musically (sorry for being snarky). Heck, even Ash Ra Tempel is nicer. A.R.T. is the Jandek of Psychadelic right now.
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Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under the Stars
Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Manufacturer: Important Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000OYC3B6 Release Date: 2007-05-29 |
Tracks:
- Pussy Head Man From Outer Space
- Crystal Rainbow Pyramid
- Electric Psilocybin Flashback
Album Description
"God bless you AMT." -- PitchforkBrand new full-length album from Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO features the recent addition of female vocalist Kitagawa Hao. Recorded over a period of four months at The Acid Mothers Temple, this is a very clean-sounding and polished AMT. Frontman Kawabata Makoto admitted, only half joking, that this has the "cleanest sound in AMT history!" More controlled than many of their speaker-destroying, fuzz-blasted speed-guru jams, Crystal Rainbow Pyramid is focused on mystic ambient passages leading into Makoto's head-heavy echo-riffs. Crystal Rainbow Pyramid is clearly one of the new classic AMT recordings. Prepare to have your mind blown slowly with evolving heavyweight jams and climactic peaks of exquisite ecstasy. Artwork by Seldon Hunt.
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La Novia
Acid Mothers Temple , and The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000MK30VE |
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Acid Mothers Temple - 'La Novia' (Occitania) .......2007-01-20
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Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO
Acid Mothers Temple , and The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000071JTE |
Tracks:
- Acid Mothers Prayer
- Speed Guru
- From The Melting Paraiso U F O I
- The Top Head Pixies
- Zen Feedbacker
- Mach D Is Bon-A-Roo
- Coloradoughnut
- From The Melting Paraiso U F O II
- Amphetamine A Go Go
- Pink Lady Lemonade
- Satori LSD
- Hawaiian Brownie
- Acid Mothers Temple For All
Album Description
1997 debut from The Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. who hail from Nagoya in the central region of Japan, but they may as well be from the moon. A self-described 'freak-out group for the 21st century', the band was founded in 1996 by memCustomer Reviews:
Historic 1st album from the rulers of Japanese underground.......2005-08-02
Yeah, Groovy, Man!.......2004-12-10
Track 1 begins with 5 minutes of chanting and vocalists doing miaowing sounds. Then a load of hippie pot smoking music kicks in. I can imagine this being played to footage of people protesting against the Vietnam war or of people dancing around a field. After 5 minutes of this it starts to sound like a racket, with the guitars being tortured rather than played. The same riff is played over and over. 16 minutes in and it sounds like a new track is starting, the riff is slightly changed, otherwise it's the same. 18 mins and the same 4 seconds of music has been repeating itself for 2 minutes. 20 mins: peace at last! Just a drone now, a bit like violins being tuned up, not very interesting though. 22 minutes: the original riff is back, with a flute joining in. 25 mins: this is getting really repetitive, the synth sound is slightly different. 26 mins: finally seems to be heading for some kind of climax. 29 mins: it all collapses, just as it was getting good, back to monotonous drone. 32 mins: repetitive clanging guitar dominates. 33 mins: tempo picks up, keyboards going crazy. 35 mins: sounds like the guitarist is trying to play over the sound of a space invaders machine. 39 mins: just an acoustic guitar now, quite pleasant, this bit. 40 mins: it's all over, phew! .
Track 2: ambient drone, sounds like something Sun Ra would have approved of. Male voice goes "tra-la-la-da-da-da", female voice is a load of echoing whoops and whelps. Only 4 minutes long.
Track 3: creepy effects music, like for someone wandering round an empty spaceship in some 1970s sci-fi movie. After 9 minutes these tuneless atmospherics turn into a shapeless rock dirge. ENOUGH! At 12 mins it changes into scratchy, noisy psychedelia, which I feel would be of use to those using interrogation techniques as a form of sonic torture. 17 mins: it's over, what a relief!
Overall, I think the best bits of this could have made quite a good 10 minute single, but this is a meandering mess that reminds me of the worst excesses of late 60s/early 70s rock. I'm glad I only rented this from my local public library.
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Born to Be Wild in the USA 2000
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Manufacturer: Wabana ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000RMJ68I Release Date: 2007-07-10 |
Tracks:
- Acid Tokion 2000
- La Rovia
- Pink Lady Lemonade
- Speed Guru
- God Bless AMT
Album Description
In 2000, Japan's psychedelic rock masters hit the US and were captured ... on tape. That tape surfaced a year later as the much sought-after Born To Be Wild in the USA 2000 LP, which looked like one of those classic dubious "live" records from the '70s. Apparently there were 1,000 pressed, and they disappeared very quickly. Now, that LP has been re-mastered for this CD release.
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Monk: Do You Be
Manufacturer: Ecm Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000260VM Release Date: 2000-04-18 |
Tracks:
- Act From Under And Above: Scared Song
- Act From Under And Above: I Don't Know
- Act From Under And Above: Window In 7's
- Act From Under And Above: Double Fiesta
- Vessel: An Opera Epic: Do You Be
- The Games: Panda Chant I
- The Games: Memory Song
- The Games: Panda Chant II
- Quarry: Quarry Lullaby
- The Games: Shadow Song
- The Games: Astronaut Anthem
- The Games: Wheel
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Mantra of Love
Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Manufacturer: Alien8 Recording ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0001XAOS4 Release Date: 2004-05-11 |
Tracks:
- La Le Lo
- L'Ambition Das Le Miroir
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Eloquent, soaring: medieval meets mantra magnified.......2006-03-29
By the way, if you like this, seek out the very rare (now) La Novia, an earlier effort in the same vein. Mantra of Love only suffers by comparison to its even better predecessor. If MoL had been the only such Occitan exploration, it'd have gained another star. On its own terms, I do recommend this album without reservation.
However, once you hear this, you will want more of the same; if you cannot find La Novia, the slightly more available Live in Japan album features a beautifully aeronautic version of one of La Novia's key tracks, which arguably soars even higher in concert. In sum, all three of these AMT + MP recordings merit a place in your collection, and nicely balance AMT's more groovy and unkempt manifestations.
P.S. I think Soundtrack of Our Lives "borrowed" this album's cover concept of blending the band member's faces onto old pictures of indigenous folk musicians on that Swedish band's "Origins, Vol. 1."!
Acid Mothers Temple - 'Mantra Of Love' (Alien8).......2005-02-23
AMT.......2004-09-19
"La Le Lo," the first of two lengthy tracks on the disc, is said to be a traditional Occitan hymn drawing from the indigenous language of southern France in the 11th to 15th centuries, marking their second flirtation with ancient folk styles since La Nòvia. The bouzouki and electric sitar that snake around Cotton's voice recall Popol Vuh (particularly the Heart of Glass soundtrack) and other kraut rock while the synthesizer sends spiraling waves into space, like a message from the desert to the stars. (Interestingly enough, AMT founder/figurehead Mokoto Kawabata claims that he hears music broadcast from outer space directly into his head.) The song ebbs and swells a number of times, oscillating between bucolic and cosmic, before launching into an extended lysergic jam.
The second and final track, "L'Ambition Dans le Miroir," is even more hushed, leading in with shimmering wind chimes and the ubiquitous sound of astral synth. Guitars are strummed in a somber tone while Cotton Casino sings her swan song -- this is, sadly, rumored to be her final performance with the AMT collective. The song dwindles into a restrained drone of keyboards, feedback, and ambient texture until all has been stripped away and only the chimes remain, swaying gently in the breeze... -- B.W.
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Univers Zen ou de Zero a Zero
Acid Mothers Temple , and The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Manufacturer: Fractal Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000MUVKF2 |
Product Description
With 6 years of existence and already a rich discography, around a dozen of titles, Acid Mothers Temple presents today their new studio album, and which is in fact the 6th of the band (after the three first on PSF, New geocentric world of AMT and Absolutely freak-out - all others are considered by Makoto Kawabata himself, as AMTs special concept releases). Univers zen ou de zéro à zéro is a full recording, with the whole world of AMT...from spirit to love, freak-out psychedelia, cosmic folk, blues, humour... a great introduction for all new listeners, and maybe, for all fans, another magic mushroom treasure ! Indeed, musically, it is probably one of the best achievement, including the demented opening track Electric Love Machine (or how see 40 years of acid rock !). But impossible to avoid the two magnum opus (of more than 20 min. each) forming the cornerstone of the album, and also the first studio version of the emblematic God bless AMT (only plays live as ending) and more... plenty of freaky guitars, space electronics, monster bass etc.. and super revolution in Cotton super Casinos vocals : in almost all tracks, she sings ala Mady Gula Blue Heaven style, delicate, beauty, dreams ! Special guest in this album, the great guitarist Hiroshi Narazaki (ex Les Rallizes Dénudés, Zuno Keisatsu, Port Cuss). Archangels thunderbird brings the New Rock from the cosmos... Cotton Casino Tsuyama Atsushi Koizumi Hajime Higashi Hiroshi Magic Aum Gigi Father Moo Kawabata Makoto 1. Electric Love Machine 2. Ange mécanique de Saturne 3. Blues pour bible noire 4. Trinité orphique 5. Soleil de cristal et lune d'argent 6. God bless AMTCustomer Reviews:
Acid Mothers Temple - 'Univers Zen Ou De Zero A Zero' (Fractal Records).......2007-02-10
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Born to Be Wild in the USA 2000
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Manufacturer: Wabana Records/Allegro ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0001N6M8K Release Date: 2004-05-25 |
Tracks:
- Acid Takion 2000
- N
- Pink Lady Lemonade
- Speed Guru
- God Bless Amt
Customer Reviews:
Acid Mothers Temple - 'Born To Be Wild In The USA,2000' (Wabana).......2006-01-24
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