Reynols | Interview | Collaboration with Acid Mother Temple
‘Vol. 2’ is the second collaborative album between two legendary units: Argentinian’s experimental band Reynols and Japanese freakout outfit Acid Mother Temple.
“Planet Earth as a stage”
In 2017 Acid Mothers Temple embarked on an extensive tour of South America. During the tour they carved out time to record and play shows with Reynols. The results of these improvised sessions are an exhilarating leap into the infinite ecstatic, shamanic, truly free psychedelic music, beyond language and beyond all rational thought.
This album is the second collaboration between Reynols and Acid Mothers Temple. Could you compare ‘Vol. 1’ to ‘Vol. 2’?
Anla Courtis and Roberto Conlazo: Both have rays in their DNA but actually are from different storms: the ‘Vol. 1’ has the power of a lightning bolt touching the sea and the ‘Vol. 2’ has the power of the sea touching the lightning bolt.
What do you enjoy about the music of Acid Mothers Temple?
We especially enjoy their subtlety, their wildness, their oneiric power and their ancestral roots mixed with the finest psychedelia.
Can you tell me how this collaboration happened? Can you tell me how you remember the recording of this album?
It took years for that exact meeting to take place. It was physically in 2017 in Buenos Aires but it could have been in 3017 ages before. It was an intense studio day: 7 hours playing music. A tour de force of Japanese-Gaucho psychedelic energies melting in a blast. And at the same time a film was shot: ‘Acid Mothers Reynols: Live and Beyond’.
This film will be also screened in the context of the Reynols 2022 Japan Exhibition Tour, a travelling exhibition which will take place in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Sendai, Fukuoka and Kokura in April/May. More about that here.
“The whole river of sound took the roles of both bands in its hands”
Did each band have a specific role during the recording? Did you make deals as in: you’re going to do this and we’re going to do that?
A good image to describe what happened is the precise moment when the doors of a hydraulic dam are opened. There, the whole river of sound took the roles of both bands in its hands. In that context music became a form of communication in its purest state: a language without language that can be understood better than anything else.
Is this album the result of jam sessions, and then later on cutting the best parts out of these jams?
More than a jam session, this was a kind of trance mediumship session translated into Lemurian decibels.
Is everything played on this record live, or did you do many overdubs?
It was mainly what was played live there. Actually we used all the 36 studio channels available. And we only did minor adjustments in the mix so that it could flow as naturally as possible, according to what it sounded like that day.
Are there plans to make more volumes?
We don’t know the answer yet, we have been really busy with the award that our drummer and singer Miguel Tomasín recently received and other various issues.
Anyway there are rumors that the answer to this question could be hidden somewhere in a pyramid in Machu Picchu. We’ll check it soon.
Are you doing this collaboration live too, or is this only a recording project?
The album was basically recorded at the studio but also we shared a live show at Niceto and played a collective bonus track in a later show at Casa del Bicentenario. That track was included in our box set ‘Minecio Emanations 1993-2018‘. We’ll see if there are more live collaborations in the future. In any case, despite being on different continents, there is nothing that can keep us away: wherever we are, we share Planet Earth as a stage.
Joeri Bruyninckx
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