Stomu Yamashta - Seasons - The Island Albums 1972-1976 (2022) [FLAC]

Stomu Yamashta - Seasons - The Island Albums 1972-1976 [7CD] (2022) [FLAC]
Country: Japan
Genre: Prog Rock, Jazz Rock, Fusion
Format: FLAC (*tracks + cue,log)
Quality: Lossless [44,1kHz/16 bit]
Time: 05:20:27
Full Size: 1.88 GB
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A cult name in prog rock, jazz fusion and modern classical circles in the 1970s, Japanese percussionist and composer Stomu Yamashta is probably best known for featuring on the soundtrack to the Bowie-starring film The Man Who Fell To Earth, and on the non-rock front he has also collaborated with Peter Maxwell Davies, Robert Altman, the Royal Ballet and many more.

Spanning Yamashta's fertile early years in Europe, this first ever box set of his work maps a kaleidoscopic musical cosmos, from Miles Davis-style electric squelch to primitive proto-techno-beat collages, trippy avant-lounge jams and even a burst of Vivaldi given the full Wendy Carlos synth treatment.

Among the tracks familiar from Bowie's mind-bending sci-fi classic are the churning Krautish mantra Mandala, the mournfully chiming Memory Of Hiroshima and the lovely, spare, twinkling tone poem Wind Words.

The last two sister albums in this seven-disc set showcase Yamashta's supergroup project Go, featuring Steve Winwood and Klaus Schulze, which moved him into more commercial prog-lite terrain, with bluesy soft-rock songs nestled alongside stately orchestral arrangements by another notable Bowie collaborator, Paul Buckmaster.

Disc: 1 Floating Music
1 Poker Dice
2 Keep in Lane
3 Xingu
4 One Way

Disc: 2 The Man From The East
1 Scoop
2 Ana Orori
3 What a Way to Live in Modern Times
4 My Little Partner
5 Mandala
6 Memory of Hiroshima
7 Mountain Pass

Disc: 3 Freedom Is Frightening
1 Freedom Is Frightening
2 Rolling Nuns
3 Pine on the Horizon
4 Wind Words

Disc: 4 One By One
1 One By One / Hey Man / One By One (Reprise)
2 Black Flame
3 Rain Race
4 Tangerine Beach
5 Superstar / Loxcycle
6 Nurburgring
7 Seasons
8 Accident
9 At Tangerine Beach

Disc: 5 Raindog
1 Dunes
2 33 1/3
3 Rainsong
4 The Monks Song
5 Shadows
6 Ishi

Disc: 6 Go
1 Solitude
2 Nature
3 Air Over
4 Crossing the Line
5 Man of Leo
6 Stellar
7 Space
8 Space Requiem

Disc: 7 Go. Live From Paris
1 Space Song
2 Carnival
3 Ghost Machine
4 Surf Spin
5 Time Sphere
6 Winner / Loser
7 Space Song
8 Carnival
9 Wind Spin
10 Ghost Machine
11 Surf Spin
12 Time Is Here
13 Winner / Loser
14 Solitude
15 Nature
16 Air Voice
17 Crossing the Line
18 Man of Leo
19 Stellar
20 Space Requiem

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