Born on January 15, 1956 in Izu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, Mako started to attract attention around 1972.In May of the same year, at the young age of 16, he was in charge of music for an NHK documentary and was hailed as a musical genius.

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It is during that time that the late composer Toru Takemitsu got to know Makoand enamored with his mixture of traditional, psychedelic rock and progressive music, decided to introducehim to Polydor.In 1974, Polydor released Makoʼs debut album, Magical Power, which features Keiji Haino on vocals withwhom he had developed a creative and close friendship.

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Music as ritual has been a central motif in Makoʼswork. With his playful aesthetic and his arcane approach to live performances, often taking the form ofchanneling rituals, incorporating and mixing a wide panel of elements, from alien communications, psychicnetworking to Buddhist symbolism, Mako perpetuated a shadowy personal mythology.

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Over the years, Mako built up an intense and unpredictable musical activity and after half a century, heremains, to this day, a key figure in the Japanese underground scene. From his early recordings, his exercises in freeform psychedelia still sound uncompromisingly futuristic today.