Stomu Yamash'ta
Floating Music

Label	island
Decade	1970s
Reissued	27.10.2008
Total time	0:51:44
Format	MP3 320k

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Having been scouted for his classical skills in Japan, trained in jazz drumming at the Berklee College Of Music, Stomu Yamashta arrived in the UK in the early ‘70s and was signed to Island Records, his debut for the label being one of his most prog-orientated albums, Floating Music from 1972. Acclaimed as falling between the music of late period wigging out Soft Machine, Nucleus’s jazz rock and Steve Hillage’s dreamier moments, the album brought eastern and western music styles together and became legendary in rock circles as the lengthy opener, Poker Dice, was featured in the David Bowie film The Man Who Fell To Earth. Elsewhere the influences of krautrock can be heard, while some angry clarinets punctuate the two live tracks that are included.