Live In Tokyo

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  Wat zullen we nu weer eens draaien......

  Pieter

  09-09-2024

  "Recorded in concert in Tokyo, April 2004, this features Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth plus various Acid Mothers, with Tatsuya Yoshida drafted in on drums. Unfortunately, from what is documented here, the anticipated cosmic explosion never happens. Much time is spent establishing a head-friendly atmosphere, with zany Smurf voices and multiple chants backed by whooshing synths, but it all comes across as fragmentary, episodic and lacking any consistent dynamism. When the players do hit a purple patch, their combined force is impressive enough, as on the lumbering spacerock of “Ze Teapot Zat Exploded” and the drawn out, smoother sounding “The Isle Of Underwear”, but these moments are few and far between, and though a heady ambience is detectable you probably really had to be there to appreciate it.”(The Wire, Soundcheck Reviewed by Tom Ridge, November 2006 Issue 273)

  I more or less agree.......ok but not great.

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