Ingo Ito started his musical career as a sound engineer at the famous Hansa by the Wall studios in Berlin, where such outstanding records were done like David Bowie´s "Heroes", Depeche Mode´s "Black Celebration" or U2´s "Achtung Baby".

During the 80s he worked as a session guitarist for, among others, Inga & Anete Humpe (Ideal), Thomas Fehlmann (Ready Made, The Orb) and as a sound engineer/producer for local Berlin bands and artists like Koolkings Kristof "Justice" Hahn ("Down By Love").

In 1984, he and George Din founded the band Bamboo Industry and a few years later he started the dance-project "The B.h.h.", together with Din, bass player Susa Lie and keyboard player Robin Loxley.
The B.h.h. contributed dance music with roots in ethnic and world music to the Goethe Institute´s "Kunst-Disco", which was one of the main attractions during the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

It had already been in the late 70s (after visiting a "Frippertronics" record-shop concert by guitarist Robert Fripp) that he started to focus on exploring new sound textures with treated and manipulated guitars. The next step was to use guitar synthesizers (until today he´s been using a Roland GR-300 and others) as well as any type of looping device (tape-machines, electronic devices and software).

In 1989, this interest in mixing electronics with modified guitar sounds brought him together with Heiko Maile of the german synth-band Camouflage and soon afterwards he joined them for their second album "Methods Of Silence" and the succeeding tour. For the next 6 years he worked with Camouflage on all of their albums, singles and concerts and also wrote some music and lyrics for them.

Parallel to Camouflage he continued working with Bamboo Industry and the follow-up band Rain On Bamboo (for more information about these bands please click on their corresponding links to their own ITOFARM pages).

In 1998 and 2002 Ito worked on ambient music installation for exhibitions of the german painter Karmers in London and Hamburg and in 2004 he wrote the music to the much noticed audio book "Kokain", a double CD about the life and death of the german poet Walter Rheiner (1895-1925).

For some time past, Ingo Ito has been living in Spain and has recently started to work on new projects.

While Zen Hanami summarizes his many years of experience in the field of ambient music, his future project Buddhas Dog will be more song orientated again.

Live looping performances by Ingo Ito are planned as well - so watch out for things to come!