Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.Formed in 1995 by Makoto Kawabata at the same time as the Acid Mothers TempleSoul Collective. The group released its debut album in 1997 on PSF Records(Japan), and it was selected as one of the years best albums in the The Wiremagazine (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 manydifferent countries. As of 2017, the group has released around 80 albums. Everyyear since 1998, they have toured extensively in the US and Europe, and morerecently have started performing around Asia and in Japan too.The group has performed in collaboration with many musicians including psychedelicoriginators Gong and Guru Guru, Simeon (Silver Apples), Nik Turner (Hawkwind),and the Occitanian trad sinder Rosina de Peira. Japanese collaborators haveincluded Afrirampo, Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins), Maso Yamazaki (Masonna), SeiichiYamamoto (Boredoms), Jun Kuriyama (The Ox), and many others.
