A trail-blazing percussionist and composer, Stomu Yamashta has garnered acclaim for his genre-bending mix of jazz-rock fusion, classical music, and Japanese percussion traditions. Following early work in Japan in the '60s, he gained global attention with albums like 1972's Floating Music and 1974's One by One, as well as recordings with his Go ensemble with Steve Winwood, Klaus Schulze, and others. He also founded the progressive Red Buddha Theatre company and supplied the music for a number of highly regarded film soundtracks, including productions by Akira Kurosawa, Nicolas ...