{"product_id":"magical-power-mako-next-millennium-vibrations","title":"Magical Power Mako - Next Millennium Vibrations","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Next Millennium Vibrations” drifts through warped tape loops, ambient zones and sampled oriental percussion with comical electronics, conjuring a surreal, meditative and disorienting atmosphere.\u003cbr\u003eMako weaves fractured beats with ethereal melodies, blending kosmische, lo-fi psychedelia, and avant-garde experimentation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis release is especially meaningful to us as we celebrate the legacy of Magical Power Mako, who passed away unexpectedly on February 7, 2025.\u003cbr\u003eThe reissue release was planned and approved with Mako just a few months before his passing, and we now hope to shine more light on his work and share his unique musical legacy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMagical Power Mako – Biography\u003cbr\u003eBorn on January 15, 1956 in Izu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, Mako started to attract attention around 1972.\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003eIt is during that time that the late composer Toru Takemitsu got to know Mako and enamored with his mixture of traditional, psychedelic rock and progressive music, decided to introduce him to Polydor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1974, Polydor released Makoʼs debut album, Magical Power, which features Keiji Haino on vocals with whom he had developed a creative and close friendship.\u003cbr\u003eMusic as ritual has been a central motif in Makoʼs work.\u003cbr\u003eWith his playful aesthetic and his arcane approach to live performances, often taking the form of channeling rituals, incorporating and mixing a wide panel of elements, from alien communications, psychic networking to Buddhist symbolism, Mako perpetuated a shadowy personal mythology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the years, Mako built up an intense and unpredictable musical activity and after half a century, he remains, to this day, a key figure in the Japanese underground scene.\u003cbr\u003eFrom his early recordings, his exercises in freeform psychedelia still sound uncompromisingly futuristic today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALL HORNED ANIMALS (CODE 7)","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":53207291691335,"sku":"TRI-66051","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/9779\/5655\/files\/6c465dfe0823677580a336debf944c8c.jpg?v=1769381007","url":"https:\/\/towerrecords.ie\/products\/magical-power-mako-next-millennium-vibrations","provider":"Tower Records Dublin Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}