Kawabata Makoto (
河端一) is the guitarist and leader of
Acid Mothers Temple. Kawabata is chiefly famous for his leadership of Acid Mothers Temple and its variants; however, he has also played in many other bands since the start of his career in the late 1970s (
Baroque Bordello,
Mothers of Invasion,
Floating Flower, etc), and has an extensive solo discography. In 2000, Kawabata wrote "Music, for me, is neither something that I create, nor a form of self-expression. All kinds of sounds exist everywhere around us, and my performances solely consist of picking up these sounds, like …
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