Stomu Yamashta is a Japanese percussionist and keyboardist who has made a good portion of his living in the classical world, although he studied jazz drumming at Boston's Berklee School of Music. It seemed natural, back in the mid-Seventies, when prog-rock was at its height, that he collaborate with Steve Winwood (ex- Traffic, Blind Faith, Spencer Davis Group) and Michael Shrieve (ex-Santana) on an ambitious project entitled Go. Also on board (though not credited on the cover) were Return To Forever guitarist Al DiMeola, bassist Rosko Gee (ex-Can, Traffic) and Klaus Schulze, formerly of Tangerine Dream.
The result was one of the most masterful albums of the progressive rock genre, truly breaking down the barriers between the pop and avant-garde forms in a way that few bands have ever done before or since. As critic Robin Denselow observes in the liner notes to the first album, 'the result is a work that, in parts, has echoes of Weather Report, Tangerine Dream, Stockhausen, Mike Oldfield, The Pink Floyd, soul music and bossa nova, and still leaves space for Stevie Winwood and Al DiMeola to show off their talents to the full.' -- Excerpt from the NFO.
Track listing
side A: (20:54)
1/ Solitude
2/ Nature
3/ Air Over
4/ Crossing The Line
5/ Man Of Leo
6/ Stellar
7/ Space Theme
side B: (19:59)
8/ Space Requim
9/ Space Song
10/ Carnival
11/ Ghost Machine
12/ Surfspin
13/ Time Is Here
14/ Winner / Loser
*You can find purchase information from this site.
**This is not my rip.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Stomu Yamashta - Go (Vinyl Rip)
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3 comments:
For whatever reasons (and there are no good ones) this is one of the great lost albums. The fact that there's no room for this classic on what passes for rock radio these days is a disgrace. Thanks for the post. My copy is just about worn out.
I don't listen to the so called rock radio at all now... :-)
Absolutely brilliant, thank you so much for bringing this diamond back to life.
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