Stomu Yamash'ta & Come To The Edge - Floating Music 1972,Fusion, Jazz-Rock
Highly interesting blend of avant-garde, jazz and ethnic-fusion. It's among Yamash'ta's best albums and it really does deliver some fabulous vibes. With the exception of "Keep in Lane", which has a lot of brass making noise there, indulging into long extended soloing, Floating Music - as a rule - focuses more on the reverberated percussion play, lyrical bass and keyboard interaction. These expand into forbidden celestial plains that defy any laws of physics.
I really like that he's used a lot of vibraphone here(one of my favorite instruments), just listen to "Poker Dice" and "One Way" and you'll hear why i like that instrument so much. Stomu's percussion style always works best when he's combining it with some keyboards to trancsend the borders of ambient fusion with the amplified distortion of the latter instruments. These guys also know how to properly groove to synthesize even some intelligent jazz-funk textures here("Xingu"). If Soft Machine had been a Japanese act they could've sounded a lot like this i imagine. The only track that doesn't do much for me is the formulaic jazz piece of "Keep in Lane". It just doesn't fit in here very well, neither is it as exiting as the other three, which ooze with spacey extravagance.King_Insano Apr 23 2013
Tracks:
01. Poker Dice (Stomu Yamash'ta) - 18:03
02. Keep In Lane (Stomu Yamash'ta) - 8:32
03. Xingu (Morris Pert) - 13:04
04. One Way (Stomu Yamash'ta) - 11:53
Personnel:
- Stomu Yamash'ta - percussion
- Morris Pert - drums, percussion
- Andrew Powell - bass (03,04)
- Robin Thompson - organ, piano, soprano sax, sho (02-04)
- Phil Plant - bass (01,02)
- Peter Robinson - piano (01)
- Dave White - soprano sax (02)
- I.Goffe - trombone (02)
- R.Harris - trumpet (02)
