"This amazing DVD was shot at Gong’s three-day festival at Amsterdam’s Melkweg Club. I must say that the Gong Uncon 06 surely was every Gong fan’s wet daydream, and I’m personally really pissed off that due to financial and family matters I couldn’t attend. Well, luckily also some official releases from the convention have been starting to appear to fill this huge black hole a little bit.

This time around, Acid Mothers Gong was formed by Yoashida Tatsuda, Kawabata Makoto, Atsushi Tsuyama, Hiroshi Higashi, Gilli Smyth, Daevid Allen and Josh Pollock from University of Errors. This is the first full live DVD released by AMG and it includes very delicious, mad and psychedelic improvisation all right.

First we’ll get a well-rehearsed and composed section, as the drummer Yoshida Tatsuda gets to show what he’s capable of with pre-recorded, very progressive and technical backing in a drum solo called ”Teapot in Ruins” that functions as an intro for the gig. Right after that the ”normal” Kawabata solo attack begins while the rhythm sections jams along and Hiroshi creates some spacey atmospheres with his synthesizer in an improvisation called ”Tsunami Magick”. Soon also the rest of the gang creeps on stage and Allen begins his funny and wonderfully weird, effected narration. Some very Daevid Allen-like poetry is also shown on screen... Little by little the track starts to rock pretty wildly, and this is tight going! Towards the end also Allen gets a guitar and the chaotic music just blows your mind. This long track is entitled ”Invocation of the Interior Motive”. Then follows, maybe a bit surprisingly, a short snippet of a Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy interview where they wonder just how psychedelic the AMG gig really had been.

”Invisible” starts off with a traditional, trippy Gilli Smyth space whispering and psychedelic affects. Soon Allen starts his glissando guitar thing but the track stays pretty ambient in nature. ”Voices” continues in the similar style but soon explodes into motion as ”Asteroid Ointment”. Kawabata plays with a bow and Pollock drives himself into a freaky frenzy. After the furious acceleration there’s still some wacky singing by Mr. Allen. After the short Kawabata interview clip we luckily still get an unlisted version of the Acid Mothers Temple live standard ”Pink Lady Lemonade” and especially Allen’s manipulated vocals and guitar playing give it some brand new dimensions... Everything of course leads to pure chaos again. Excellent! Then follows some duet vocal whimsy by Allen and Smyth after which there comes some pretty vague, distorted and experimental freak-out. Later on also Atsushi does some singing for a while and then the wild rocking starts again and Kawabata really tortures his guitar. Then they return to the ”Pink Lady Lemonade” theme in a very serene mode. Soon the track grows again for a while. Finally, we still get the hypnotic Gong classic ”Master Builder” that pours deep into your consciousness and it’s here, at the latest, that the band wildly goes for totally unrestrained delivery. Wow!

Harry Williamson’s direction is a homage to the music of AMG, and I really like that he has included a suitable amount of silliness and for example pieces of Kawabata interview and some footage of Allen at the sound check. The lightshow was originally already very psychedelic, but there are some added effects which works out great. There is also a four-sided booklet inside the cover with Allen’s AMG illustration, comments by Steve Hillage and the AMG Anti-Manifesto. This is a must-have for all the Gong fans out there!"

D J Astro, Psychotropic Zone