Acid Mothers Temple, Mike Meanstreetz & Stevie Richards, The Macks
October 3 @ 8:00 pm – 11:59 pm PDT
30TH ANNIVERSARY US TOUR
Acid Mothers Temple
Formed in 1995 by Makoto Kawabata at the same time as the Acid Mothers Temple Soul Collective. The group released its debut album in 1997 on PSF Records (Japan), and it was selected as one of the year’s best albums in the The Wire magazine (UK). In 1998 the group played their first tours of the US and Europe. Since then the group has released a huge number of albums on labels from many different countries. As of 2017, the group has released around 80 albums. Every year since 1998, they have toured extensively in the US and Europe, and more recently have started performing around Asia and in Japan too. The group has performed in collaboration with many musicians including psychedelic originators Gong and Guru Guru, Simeon (Silver Apples), Nik Turner (Hawkwind), and the Occitanian trad sinder Rosina de Peira. Japanese collaborators have included Afrirampo, Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins), Maso Yamazaki (Masonna), Seiichi Yamamoto (Boredoms), Jun Kuriyama (The Ox), and many others.
During the pandemic, they launched their official Bandcamp, have released more than 60 albums (including many unreleased materials), and have toured in Japan in each year. And they played the streaming festival “Levitation Sessions”. They organized “Acid Mothers Olympic 2021” against “Tokyo Olympics 2021”, they originated and played a new style of “music sports”.
Finally the group restarted to the first European tour in Autumn 2022, also the first North American tour in Spring 2023, after the pandemic.
The Macks
Described as walloping “heaviosity” threaded with streams of blues and thrash, The Macks have an unmistakable sound. In 2022, the band came out with their lockdown project “Rabbit.” That third LP was a raw and progressive take on rock and roll that launched The Macks towards tours and festivals like Treefort in Idaho and MonkeyBee in Mexico City. Before taking a moment to breathe, the band released the “Dajiban” LP just months later. Self-produced in a Portland home shared by three band members, “Dajiban” drove the The Macks into more expansive, catchy, gnarly, and distinct territory. The Macks push all the boundaries with “The Macks are a Knife.” The LP released mid-2024 with Devil Duck Records. The band is comprised of brothers Josef and Ben Windheim, Sam Fulwiler, Jacob Michael Perris, and Aidan Harrison. The energy and dedication behind each member and the support of Devil Duck Records has The Macks firing on all cylinders with new material both live and back in the studio. “Portland’s Best New Band” of 2022 continues to impress.
Mike Meanstreetz
Mike Meanstreetz is a Los Angeles based multimedia artist whose non-traditional craft seeds new genres while reaping the fallen fruit of old. Auditory, visual, and word rarely appear in the singular, most often materializing in a tangle of synesthesia. His rigorerd wabi-sabi invites the daydream and its ushering of both resonant and dissonant perspectives/perceptions in an inclusive synthesis betweenst. Most of his work focuses on the improvised, situational and shared, and is rooted in the belief that collaboration is a practical divination of that fount pushing all. Sonically his practice primarily explores and expands upon both more metrical genre adjacent sensibilities and more fluid extended techniques via drum kit/percussion, musique concrete/electronic manipulation, and harmonically loaded electro-acoustic nylon MIDI triggered guitar. In these various modes he has performed throughout the US, Mexico and Europe.
More than 25 years after his first experimental solo release under the namesake, he currently operates the 1234 Test Kitchen studio in Los Angeles, both the seat of his practice and recording love, and has performed and recorded in various combos including:
Anna Homler, John Wiese (Sissy Spacek), Los Angeles Free Music Society (including Joe Pott’s Airway), Martín Escalante, Henry Barnes (Amps for Christ), Patrick Shiroishi, Hayden Jiménez (Hidhawk), Rob Magill, Tatsuya Nakatani (Nakatani Gong Orchestra), Arrington de Dionyso, Derek Monypeny, Divinebrick, Stevie Richards, Danilo Casti+Dalila Kayros, Pure Shit, Gasp, Whereas, Anything and Sobbing Honey.
Stevie Richards
Stevie Richards (Melbourne, Australia) and Mike Meanstreetz (Los Angeles, CA) will be performing a duo of improvised saxophone, drums/percussion and electronics for a fall tour of the North American West Coast.
Stevie Richards is a DIY electronics and woodwind player and performer currently based in Naarm / Melbourne, Australia. Stevie has performed in Europe, United States, Mexico and Japan and is an active participant in the avant-garde / improvisation environment of Naarm / Melbourne. Stevie has performed in many past and ongoing ensembles worldwide playing noise, free jazz, ambient and electroacoustic music both as a soloist and through deliberate international collaboration.
Collaborators past and present have included:
Morishige Yasumune, Tetuzi Akiyama, Takeo Toyama, Takumi Moriya,E-Da, Seiichi Yamamoto, Alessandra Rombolà, Geir Opdal, Øivind Olsen, Espen Friberg, Villem Jahu, Ryosuke Kiyasu, Whitehorse, Cavies !, Ray of Creation, Mike Meanstreetz, Robbie Avenaim, Doug Lynner, Jon Bafus, Masami Kawaguchi, Paloma Carrasco Lopez, Nuno Veiga, Arne Borgan, Andrea S Giordano, Nathan Hubbard, Rick Jensen, Sharon Gal, Johan Moir, Breeze Smith, Martin Q Larsson, Rory Brown, Simon Toldam, Rama Parwata, Aviva Endean, Akio Jeimus, Elvis Aljus, Moment Trigger, Matthew Brown, Brad Smith, Carmen Chan Schoenborn and Kota Yamauchi.
Doors 7:30pm
