A trail-blazing percussionist and composer, Stomu Yamashta has earned acclaim for his genre-bending mix of jazz-rock fusion, classical music, and Japanese percussion traditions. Following his early work in Japan in the '60s, he attracted global attention with albums like 1972's Floating Music and 1974's One by One, as well as recordings by his Go ensemble with Steve Winwood, Klaus Schulze, and others. He also founded the progressive Red Buddha Theatre company and supplied the music to a number of highly regarded film soundtracks, including productions by Akira Kurosawa, Nicolas Roeg, and Robert Altman. The creator of the stone percussion instrument Sanukit, Yamashta moved toward more ambient environmental-inspired works, including albums like 1985's Sea & Sky, his Solar Dream project, and 2001's Listen to the Future, Vol. 1. He also collaborated with Ragnhildur Gísladóttir and Sjón for 2006's Bergmál and in 2017 delivered the atmospheric Purple.