Kawabata Makoto is a Japanese musician and founding member of the band and "soul collective" Acid Mothers Temple. Image File history File links Kawabata Makoto in performance with Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno, June 2nd 2005. ... Image File history File links Kawabata Makoto in performance with Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno, June 2nd 2005. ... Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. (and subsequent offshoots) is a Japanese psychedelic band founded in 1996 by members of the Acid Mothers Temple soul-collective. ...
Makoto 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.[1] Major releases are:
The 'Private Tapes' series (1999-2004)
Inui.1 (2000)
Inui.2 (2000)
I'm in Your Inner Most (2001)
Musical philosophy
In 2000 Makoto 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."[2]