First ever UK CD release for this classic album from the master percussionist & ambient musician -- remastered from the original tapes. Extensive booklet with liner notes & fully restored artwork. Stomu Yamash'ta is a master percussionist who studied jazz drumming at Berklee School of Jazz. In the 1970s, he recorded a string of innovative albums for Island Records which utilized the talents of such leading musicians as Hugh Hopper, Maurice Pert, Steve Winwood, Michael Shrieve and Klaus Schulze, fusing his percussion talents with jazz, electronic and classical to create an ambient form of music all of his own. His music has been used by the Royal Ballet. His first Island album, Floating Music was recorded with the band Come to the Edge and gains its first European CD release with this reissue. 'Poker Dice' and 'One Way' were for used by Nicholas Roeg in the soundtrack of the David Bowie film The Man Who Fell to Earth.
Details
Cat. number: ECLEC2084
Year: 2008
Release notes:
Originally released as Island Records HELP 12 in 1972.
A L✶✶NER Enterprises Production.
Tracks 3 & 4 recorded live at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, January 10th 1972.
CD remastered at The Audio Archiving Company, London.
On tray card, booklet and CD:
℗ 1972 Island Records
This reissue: © 2008 Cherry Red Records under license from Universal Music Operations, London
Esoteric Recordings is a Cherry Red label
Also on tray card:
Distributed by Pinnacle. Made in EU.
Also on CD:
The copyright in…
Tracklist
| 1 | Poker Dice | 18:10 | |
| 2 | Stay In Lane | 8:36 | |
| 3 | Xingu | 13:08 | |
| 4 | One Way | 11:54 |
Credits
- Gakutei
- Artwork [Original Print]
- Phil Smee
- Design [CD Package Design]
- Ezz Tilford
- Design [Original LP Design]
- M. Pert
- Drums, Percussion, Written-By (3)
- Andy Millais
- Equipment [Equipment Managers], Management [Equipment Managers]
- Graham Davies
- Equipment [Equipment Managers], Management [Equipment Managers]
- Jon Wright
- Liner Notes
- R. Thompson
- Organ, Piano, Soprano Saxophone [Soprano Sax], Sho (2 to 4)
- Tushiharu Kodama
- Other [Invaluable Japanese Assistance]
- S. Yamash'ta
- Percussion [Percussion Multitudinous], Written-By (1, 2, 4)
- Jonathan Port
- Photography By
- Mark Powell
- Reissue Producer [CD Reissue Devised And Prepared By]
- Paschal Byrne
- Remastered By [CD Remastered By]
- Peter A. Matthews
- Research [Assistance With Master Tape Research]
