Born in Jakarta of Indonesian and Japanese parents, Mondo Gascaro began his musical exposure early in childhood. Aside from regularly attending the traditional Javanese shadow puppet performances, he used to sit listening to his grandmother playing Bengawan Solo on the piano, while his father who was also a singer, used to listen to Nat King Cole and the other crooners. His musical influences are varied, ranging from the Beatles, Antonio Carlos Jobim, old-Indonesian popular Classics of Ismail Marzuki to Steely Dan.!
While being known to compose music for notable Indonesian films such us Love for Share (2006), The Forbidden Door (2008), and Hello Goodbye (2012), to most people Mondo is recognized as a former member of the band SORE from which he resigned in 2012 after releasing two critically acclaimed albums (Centralismo 2005; Ports of Lima, 2008).!
Other than composing music for films he also produced artists and bands under his music label (Ivy League Music) which he fronted with his wife. Their past releases include Payung Teduh – Dunia Batas (2012) and Ayushita – Morning Sugar (2013). Now he had
started his own solo project, by releasing last August 2014. This release is intended to be a prologue for his upcoming album due to be released in 2015.!
