Q065: You recently recorded a full collaboration album with Afrirampo, whom you helped to get known when you invited them on "Minstrel In the Galaxy" and released their first record. How did you discover them? What do you like especially in them?
A065: When you are living around Osaka, you naturally get to meet people doing interesting things. About a year and a half after they started Afrirampo, rumours began to spread about them and they were already quite popular
amongst certain music fans. I got to know them around that time through word of mouth and quite naturally we began to play together. They were just starting to play outside Japan, so I suggested that we reissue an early cdr
they had sold at gigs on our AMT label (which is distributed by the American distributor Eclipse Records). They agreed, and since it could act as a calling card for them abroad, we decided to include some movies and photographs as well as the music.
After Cotton left, they provided vocals on two Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. albums. But even before those two albums, we had already recorded the Acid Mothers Afrirampo studio album - but because the releases came out in the wrong order, people have been confused. From those Acid Mothers Afrirampo studio sessions we have enough material for one more album. It will be released by the UK label Very Friendly Records.
I put on an Acid Mothers Temple Festival every December. In 2004 we played there as Acid Mothers Afrirampo, and in 2005 we added Yoshida Tatsuya and played as Acid Mothers Afrirampo Ruins.
I think that what is most interesting about them is their innocent power, their never-ending sense of curiosity and their determination to try things immediately. I get inspired by working with them.