Kawabata Makoto

Kawabata Makoto is a Japanese guitarist and multi-instrumentalist from Osaka, born in 1965, who has played in bands since 1978. He founded Acid Mothers Temple in 1995 as a loose collective devoted to long psychedelic and space rock improvisations, and has led it and its many offshoots since. He also plays sitar, violin, hurdy-gurdy and bouzouki. Kawabata has played in Mainliner, Musica Transonic, Toho Sara and Tsurubami, and in 2003 Acid Mothers Temple joined Gong as Acid Mothers Gong. In 2002 he toured Italy with Jennifer Gentle, recorded live as The Wrong Cage (Silly Boy Entertainment).