The Road To Aphotopia, by Kawabata Makoto’s Aphotopia

The Road To Aphotopia

by Kawabata Makoto’s Aphotopia

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4 cassette tapes + miniature of Kawabata's Stratocaster
Elaborate Kawabata guitar miniature + 4 cassette tapes (3 titles of Kawabata Makoto's solo + 1 title of Acid Mothers Guru Guru)

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This the first studio recording of Kawabata’s new solo project “Aphotopia”.
The original musical idea was the teenage Kawabata’s vision that songs of post-punk / dub should be much longer like endless.
This digital album was released only for Bandcamp.
Also this has been reissued on limited 100 cassette tape by Metaparadigm Music in 2023.

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released May 21, 2022

1. Frigateman
2. Aphotosynthesis

Kawabata Makoto : guitar, bass, voice, synthesizer, rhythm box

music & words by Kawabata Makoto
recorded at Acid Mothers Temple, 19th - 20th May 2022
produced, engineered and mixed by Kawabata Makoto

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Kawabata Makoto Japan

Guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. Leader of Acid Mothers Temple.
While he's best known for his earsplitting, guitar heroics with AMT, he's also the founder of his own school of ecstatic guitar drone using bowing and glissando techniques.
His first started releasing works for electronics and homemade instruments in 1978. Since then his activities have been almost too wideranging to grasp: ... more

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