Stomu Yamas'hta's East Wind - Freedom Is Frightening 1973 (Japan, Jazz-Rock/Fusion)
Hisako Yamashta - wife of the stoma. Stoma Yamashta (Stomu Yamashta, Stomu Yamash'ta, real name - Tsutomu Yamashita) - Japanese (from Kyoto) percussionist, keyboardist and composer. His father - Kiyoharu Yamashita, Kyoto Philharmonic Orchestra conductor, given his enthusiasm for his son, who at an early age entered the local music academy. At 13, he played percussion in the orchestra of his father, trying to compose music and doing well in this lesson, so that was invited to compose music for two films of Akira Kurosawa: Yojimbo and Sanjiro. Soon Stoma sent to America to replenish his education and acquire Western musical influences. In 1964-69 years of studies at New York's Juilliard School (Juilliard School of Music) and Boston's Berklee College of Music (Berklee College of Music). Do not break relations with the cinema - with Peter Maxwell Davies is working on the soundtrack for Ken Russell's The Devils (Ken Russell, The Devils, 1971) and plays the theme music of composer John Williams for the movie by Robert Altman Images (Robert Altman , Images, 1972). Earning recognition as an outstanding percussionist with the most strict judges, begins to deal the fatal music. After dragging the vanguard (the album Red Buddha) in 1972 began writing a jazz-fusion with different groups created by: album Floating Music (1972) with a group of Come To The Edge, album, Freedom Is Frightening (1973) soundtrack and One By One (1974) - with a group of Stomu Yamash'ta's East Wind (keyboardist Brian Gascoigne, guitarist Gary Boyle, bassist Hugh Hopper). Further, he was the leader (keyboardist and percussionist) supergroup Stomu Yamashta's Go or simply Go (there were Steve Winwood, Al Di Meola, Klaus Schulze, Michael Shrieve) - Albums Go (1976) and Go Too (1977). Stoma was then in a Buddhist monastery, and returned to a classical concert music and started composing ambient Japanese ... But it is already 80 years ....
Tracks: All music written, composed and arranged by Stomu Yamash'ta. 01. Freedom Is Frightening - 8:49 02. Rolling Nuns - 7:08 03. Pine On The Horizon - 11:48 04. Wind Words - 6:43
