- Format: CD
- Label: Radioactive
- Genre: Progressive
Super Record, the second of Magical Power Mako's 20-plus recordings, is
considered by those that know to be his finest, combining as it does strong elements
of Japanese folk music alongside innovative psychedelic sounds and broad musical
vistas of extraordinary imagination.
Mako was born in Shuzeni Izu in Japan in 1956, and after commencing his musical
education at a young age, making his first public performance in 1973 at the age of
16 with his band Genge in the famous Shibuya club. Based on these impressive
public performances, the precocious Mako was invited to play with one of Japan's
foremost contemporary composers, Toru Takemistu, playing alongside the composer
in 3 film scores, Inheritance For The Future, Petrified Forest and Himiko. T h e
response to his performances was overwhelmingly enthusiastic, elevating Mako to
almost god-like status in his native country.
M a k o 's music has often baffled pundits keen to place him in a particular musical slot.
As one perplexed scribe opined "Mako's music possesses a certain strange kind of
texture. It is certainly what they call rock, but contains elements we can't describe so
s u c c i n c t l y. It clearly goes beyond the various genres of music and while full of them
all, it sends forth a fierce glow". Another critic wrote "Adding to the variety of folk
music from India, Turkey and Russia, his mandolin or Taisho koto, and especially his
marvellously-performed guitar, expresses fully the odour of the soil and mankind's
universality".
Track listing:
1.Andromeda
2.Tundra
3.Silk Road
4.Woman in South Island
5.Pink Butch (Lalala)
6.Sound 3
7.Rock Baby in Meadow
8.Sound 3
9.Majorica Resistance Song
10.Sound 3
11.Cosmos Sandglass
12.Sound 3
13.Sound, Mother Earth
14.Sound 3
