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Stomu Yamash'ta
12+ albums
Progressive rockJazz RockFusionjapanProgressive
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Stomu Yamash'ta (1947- born Yamashi'ta Tsutomu, Japanese: 山下勉) is a experimental percussionist, keyboardist and composer from Kyoto, Japan. He is best known for pioneering a fusion of traditional Japanese percussive music with Western progressive rock music and jazz-rock in the 1960s and 1970s with his bands East Wind, Go and his experimental theatre group Red Buddha Theatre. He has played with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra and the progressive rock group Come to The Edge. He studied jazz drumming at Berklee School of Jazz. He has composed for the British Royal Ballet, for the soundtrack of the David Bowie film The Man Who Fell to Earth and for Ken Russell's The Devils. He was a member of the supergroup Go along with Steve Winwood, Al Di Meola, Klaus Schulze, and Michael Shrieve. He has also composed film scores, His Space Theme was used by the BBC on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series). User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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