Q064: What is "concept" and thematics of the next amt record "Have you seen the other side of the sky?"?
A064: The new Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. album, "Have you seen the other side of the sky?" is currently available at the concerts on our US tour. These are the first new Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. studio recordings in a year and a half. After our last release and the US and European tours at the start of 2004, we realised that we had become really worn out with constant touring and releases so we decided to stop playing live and take our time to record a new album. In fact, this is the most amount of time we have spent recording an album since our second album. As you know, while Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. were taking a year-long break in 2005, I formed a new version of AMT - Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno - and released six studio albums with them and toured Europe and the USA. But during this time I continued to work on the new Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. recordings. Originally I planned to make it an all-acoustic album, but at the start of 2006 I changed my mind and it has become something a bit different to that original idea. From now on I want to include a much more varied sense of musicality on our albums. I planned to release the album before we began our tour, but the recording took so long that it will now be released after the tour.