Our friends Acid Mothers Temple are back in town. Their 6th appearance in the belly of Stubnitz since our first encounter in the year 2000. Since their debut album in 1997 on PSF Records they toured and released extensively. Check their back catalogue and don't miss out the Acid Mothers Temple experience. The current touring line-up is: Kawabata Makoto (the founder member), Higashi Hiroshi (the founder member), Satoshima Nani, Jyonson Tsu and Sawano Shozo.
Support act: Réka Csiszér aka VÍZ. On her latest record 'Danse des Larmes', that was recently released via Athens based cult label Heat Crimes; dense electroacoustic textures melt into gothic vocal lines, forming a non-existent giallo soundtrack. VÍZ’s live act has been described as eerie and captivating—oscillating between avant-garde sci-fi opera and ritualistic incantations, where Csiszér’s haunting vocal performance immediately calls to mind shadow-pop icons like Diamanda Galás, Julie Cruise, and Lisa Gerrard. The experience is visceral — one you can breathe, touch, and lose yourself in completely.
Das Konzert wird unterstützt vom Verband für aktuelle Musik Hamburg und der Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg. Supported by Plattenkiste.
Acid Mothers Temple
To begin with the group had a floating line-up with contributions from many members of the AMT Soul Collective. But as tours became more frequent, the group began to coalesce around a core touring line-up. Other bands were created with Acid Mothers Temple as part of their name (AMT & The Cosmic Inferno, AMT SWR, AMT & The Space Paranoid, AMT & Infinity Rising Zero, Acid Mothers Gong, Acid Mothers Guru Guru, Acid Moon Temple, etc.), but AMT & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. has continued to function as the mothership and main lineage for all our activities.
They released their 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.
In 2016, 21 years since the group's founding, there was a major shift in the line-up and "Next Generation" was added to the name. We now view the first 20 years as chapter one in our story, and we are now turning the page to start chapter two. The group played more than 100 shows in each year, toured in Europe, North America, South America, Oceania and Asia, also Japan. They also played many festivals (Glastonbury Festival in UK, Levitation in US and France, Rock In Opposition in France, Standon Calling in UK, Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival in Malaysia, LUC fest 貴人散步音樂節 in Taiwan, etc).
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 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”. Autumn 2022, Finally the group went to the first European tour after pandemic. Also 2023, they toured North America (USA, Canada and Mexico) in Spring and Autumn. They have since toured the United States, Europe, Taiwan, and other countries.
VÍZ
Réka Csiszér aka VÍZ is a Hungarian singer, composer, performer, and multidisciplinary artist from Transylvania – a region that lies not only geographically but also historically between worlds. Her art draws precisely from these interstices: between reality and dream, memory and forgetting, sound and silence. VÍZ delves into the depths of Eastern European melancholy, blending post-industrial textures, spectral glossolalia, the darker shades of Hungarian folk, and audiovisual noir.
Csiszér’s work is profoundly cinematic — Lynchian disorientation in time and space emerges from the very first sonic clues. The compositions of Mihály Vig for Béla Tarr’s films, Eastern European folk horror, and noir aesthetics are key references to unlocking the sealed universe of Csiszér.
On her latest record 'Danse des Larmes', that was recently released via Athens based cult label Heat Crimes; dense electroacoustic textures melt into gothic vocal lines, forming a non-existent giallo soundtrack. VÍZ’s live act has been described as eerie and captivating—oscillating between avant-garde sci-fi opera and ritualistic incantations, where Csiszér’s haunting vocal performance immediately calls to mind shadow-pop icons like Diamanda Galás, Julie Cruise, and Lisa Gerrard. The experience is visceral — one you can breathe, touch, and lose yourself in completely.
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