"What a beautiful gem! The fake hierarchical system of the music world should be broken by this album!" This quote by Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu might represent Mako's philosophy and attitude towards music.
MAGICAL POWER MAKO (Makoto Kurita) was born at Izu-Shuzenji, Japan in 1958. With a natural talent for playing the piano and composing music, he started his music career and laid the cornerstone of his musical foundation in 1973.
The first concert on the stage of Shibuya Juan Juan with his band Genge attracted lots of rock fans, famous musicians, and reviewers.
His first album "Magical Power" was issued in 1974 and crossed a multitude of musical boundaries. A toy box of noises, soundscapes, explosions of distorted fuzz...not eccentric as such in the music scene at the time, but quite a few people were surprised and amazed at his avantgarde explorations and progressive techniques.
Mako can play more than a hundred instruments, and his songs are filled with a plethora of those.
His attitude towards musical performance and theory might be described as highly unique and individual.
After releasing the techno-pop album "Super Record" and the more rock oriented production "Jump", Mako set about his independent distribution and his musical approach to become more flexible and widespread.
From the 1990s and onwards Mako focused more on outer space as inspirations for his works; which he communicated by means of his musical creations.
Over his more than 30 year long career Mako has released over 20 albums, and his progressiveness, eccentricity and avantgarde tendencies shine brilliantly all over the world today.