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Artist
Stomu Yamashta
12+ albums
Progressive rockFusionexperimentalelectronicjapanese
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Stomu Yamashta (born Yamashita Tsutomu, Japanese: 山下勉, 15 March 1947, Kyoto, Japan) Since the late 60’s he has developed an international reputation as a composer and performer (percussion, keyboards) of serious music, jazz rock fusion, rock, electronica as well as multi-media projects for the theatre, a ballet score ("Shukumei" ) and cinematic soundtracks. He studied jazz. He has toured and played with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra and the rock group Come to The Edge. YAMASH’TA has recorded not only jazz rock fusion and rock but music by the serious modern composers Maxwell-Davis and Henze. He came to Europe in the early 70’s working briefly in France on theatrical multi-media projects (e.g. the precursor for “Red Buddah Theatre” and “The Man From The East”) before moving across the Channel to England. Through the 70’s YAMASH’TA recorded the majority of his 70’s albums in the UK but alas very few of the Island Records recordings have been issued on CD. He has composed the soundtracks of the David Bowie film “The Man Who Fell to Earth” (which borrowed significantly from earlier recordings), Ken Russell's “The Devils”, and race car documentary “One By One”. STOMU YAMASH’TA is probably best known nowadays as the leader of the supergroup GO with STEVIE WINWOOD, AL DIMEOLA, KLAUS SCHULZ and MICHAEL SHRIEVE for three albums and related performances. However, prior to forming GO, YAMASH’TA played not a small part in nurturing musicians who were subsequently better known for playi
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