Sea & Sky
Stomu Yamashtais truly a master musician, performing and  composing in many different genres. An adept percussionist as well as a  fine keyboard player, Yamashta has played his own music but is also sought  after by leading contemporary composers such asToru TakemitsuandPeter Maxwell Daviesto perform their works. He has written  everything from ballets, film scores, and multimedia chamber works, to  avant-garde rock music. As a member ofGo, he collaborated with  British musiciansSteve WinwoodandMichael Shrieveas well  as German synthesistKlaus Schulze. Although he is primarily known  as a percussionist, studying jazz drumming at Boston's Berklee School of  Jazz, he has also made a reputation for himself as a composer of electronic  works. After retiring briefly to a Buddhist temple in his native Kyoto in  1980, Yamashta released a number of recordings that used synthesizers,  taped sounds, orchestral instruments, and percussion.