Stomu Yamashta

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Stomu Yamash'ta also Stomu Yamashta ( Japanese 山下 勉 , Yamashita Tsutomu ; born March 15, 1947 in Kyōto ) is a composer and musician from Japan who plays drums and keyboard .

As a teenager he was a drummer with the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra and studied at the Kyoto Academy of Music . From 1969 studies (jazz drums) at the Berklee School of Music in the USA. He then moved to London and founded the formation Come to the Edge there . In 1973 he was the initiator of the East Wind group . Yamashta recorded compositions by Hans Werner Henze and Peter Maxwell Davies ; at the same time he founded the group Red Buddha Theater .

The artist became known to a wider audience through his GO project , in which he recorded three albums with other rock and jazz musicians in 1976 and 1977. Contributors included: Steve Winwood (Hammond), Klaus Schulze (keyboard), Al di Meola (guitar), Pat Thrall (guitar), Michael Shrieve (drums), Rosko Gee (bass). The resulting music is a mix of rock, jazz, soul , world music , electronic music and New Age .

Discography

  • Contemporary (1972)
  • The Man from the East (1973)
  • Freedom is frightening (Eastwind, 1973)
  • Red Buddah (1974)
  • One by One (Eastwind, 1974)
  • Raindog (1975)
  • GO (1976)
  • GO live from Paris (1976)
  • Stomu Yamash'ta / Masahiko Satō Metempsychosis (with Toshiyuki Miyama and his New Herd, 1976)
  • Go Too (1977)
  • Sea and Sky (1990)
  • The GO Sessions (2005, two CDs with the three GO records)

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SURNAME Yamashta, Stomu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yamash'ta, Stomu; Yamashita, Tsutomu (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Kyoto