Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.rock.progressive
Titolo: Magical Power Mako

Mi sono imbattuto in questo ottimo gruppo.
Chi mi sa consigliare qualche nome a questo livello, esclusi i capisaldi
del progressive piů noto?
grazie
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bye

del progressive più noto?
Magical Power Mako NON è una band ma un talentuoso nipponico di nome
Makoto Kurita che già a 15 anni si divertiva a sovraincidere nastri.
I prini 3 LP polydor (74/77) sono indispensabili in ogni discografia
kraut/oriented (ma non solo) che voglia dirsi tale.
--
Mauro Moroni
http://www.myspace.com/mellowrecordsmusic


ristampato tempo fa dalla mio records
 Magical Power Mako, "Hapmoniym 1972-1975" Print E-mail
Written by Howard Stelzer
Saturday, 09 February 2002
This massive 5-CD boxset is the second attempt to publish the 15 CDs worth
of material that the Japanese psych-rock legend Magical Power Mako recorded
while making his magnificent debut and second albums. The first attempt was
by Mom n' Dad Records (run by an ex-member of the Hanatarash) in the
mid-90s, for which each CD was to be published seperately. For some reason,
they gave up the series after CD #5. Now the relatively new Israeli prog
label MIO is giving it a go in the massively pocket-draining form of three
5-CD boxsets. If you haven't yet heard Mako's 1970s records, you're in for a
real pleasant shock. Along with his contemporaries, the equally legendary
groups Les Rallizes Denudes and Takehisa Kosugi's Taj Mahal Travellers, Mako
established a uniquely Japanese style of over-the-top psychedelic rock
music, bearing only a casual reference to other bands active in the same
period (in Mako's case, Faust is the easiest comparison). These groups paved
the way for bands like Fushitsusha, Kosukouya, Ghost, and the rest of the
heavy-as-hell (and utterly necessary) PSF Records scene. Because all of the
music on these CDs is, essentially, Mako's notebook for ideas that either
were polished up for his "Magical Power" or "Super Record" LPs or else
discarded, the work is unfocused and rambling at times. But with so much
gold for the listener to dig through, it hardly matters. Fried folk or prog
tunes morph slowly into wild tape-splices, synthesizer sound-effect blasts,
chanting and indescribably twisted digressions. Ideas take vague shape, feel
themselves out, and slowly push themselves to ridiculous limits. Many of the
"songs" (one track per CD, folks) meander for 15 minutes before coming to
either a majestic revelation or studio-inflicted destruction, surely the
result of a musician with no shortage of free time, potent herb and good
ideas (and probably a home studio). The set comes in a lovely hard-cardboard
box with a booklet in English and (mostly) Japanese. Never mind that the
title is in Greek, the label is in Israel, and much of the liner notes are
in Japanese... the confusion is, for me, part of the enjoyment and entirely
appropriate to the music. Incidentally, PSF fans take note: a young Keiji
Haino makes an uncredited vocal appearance somewhere on disc #1, probably
his earliest recorded performance. Pick out which prepubescent yelps are his
and win a real shiny US nickel. No shit. 
www.miorecords.com
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