STOMU YAMASHTA – FREEDOM IS FRIGHTENING LP – EXC+ UK 1973 JAZZ ROCK FUSION

Stomu Yamash’ta’s East Wind – Freedom Is Frightening
(Island Records  1973  ILPS9242)
Matrix No’s: A3/B3 – UK Pressing

Sleeve in Excellent/Very Good+ condition
– some wear to edges and some rubbing/marks
Inner Sleeve has some foxing/discolouration but no splits

Vinyl in Excellent+ condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from some light pops/crackles)

Stomu Yamashta (or Yamash’ta), born Tsutomu Yamashita (15 March 1947), is a Japanese percussionist, keyboardist and composer. He is best known for pioneering and popularising a fusion of traditional Japanese percussive music with Western progressive rock music in the 1960s and 1970s.

Freedom Is Frightening is a 1973 album by the Japanese percussionist, keyboardist and composer Stomu Yamash’ta and his band East Wind. It was recorded in August 1973 at Advision Studios (Gary Martin, engineer). The cover art was designed by Saul Bass