Search - Stomu Yamashta :: Red Buddha

Ninja percussionist

A. Dutkiewicz | Norwood, South Australia Australia | 11/12/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"What a wizard! Yamashta's music on this disc is mind-boggling. Before the likes of Trilok Gurtu and Nana Vasconcelos, this Japanese superhero of percussion took the classical, then the world of progressive music by storm in London.These two extended pieces from 1971 proved two things: that he was a superb musician and composer, and that he must have been born with eight arms!Red Buddha swells with more and more fertility, in terms of rhythmic complexity and intrumental depths; As expanding as bends one's sense of time and seduces you into his world of supernatural powers.I rue the day I never bought his other records when they were available: oh how I'd love his work that followed, especially Come to the Edge, Freedom is Frightening and Raindog. Back then he was a unique player and composer, and the presence on disc of these wonderful records in the modern world of music is sorely missed."