The last time I saw veteran Japanese psych-rockers Acid Mothers Temple at Cafe Oto, I noted that it was perhaps the most surreal performance I've ever seen. This may well have topped it. This wasn't AMT as such; rather a three-man offshoot who performed as eight separate acts over the course of the night. The night started with an extended avant garde jazz solo, then moved into hypnotic drones, a guy prancing around with two recorders, a proper 60's-style heavy blues band, a covers act which performed the likes of Dylan and Deep Purple in the style of Captain Beefheart, a band who utilised instruments as diverse as trouser zips, a pencil sharpener and a radish (don't ask), a rather rough-edged vocal harmony group and finally, a cut-down version of Acid Mothers Temple themselves. It was bizarre. It was bewildering. It was brilliant.
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