“Thank you for Tony Collman’s article about Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, two legendary musicians I did not know were go players,” writes Steve Burrall. “Another go connection in music is ‘Go’ by Stomu Yamashta (actually Tsutomu Yamashita), Steve Winwood and Michael Shrieve. In 1976 the Japanese percussionist Tsutomu Yamashita formed what is generally considered to be a ‘supergroup’ owing to having musicians from Traffic, Santana and Return to Forever; the name of the group as well as the name of the first recording was ‘Go’. While not explicitly about the game of go, the influence of the game is quite clear in some of the songs. Yamashita is quoted as saying that ‘it’s a game of chance, random and abstract, with few rules. It’s also about opposites colliding, reality and fantasy shifting into one another, re-birth through suffering, and defeat turned to victory.’ Those with an interest in the confluence of jazz, rock music and classical music are likely to find it to be a very beautiful music journey.” -Graphic from the Wikipedia page for the album.American Go E-Journal
Your Move/Readers Write: Stomu Yamashta’s Go Supergroup
Friday July 19, 2013
“Thank you for Tony Collman’s article about Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, two legendary musicians I did not know were go players,” writes Steve Burrall. “Another go connection in music is ‘Go’ by Stomu Yamashta (actually Tsutomu Yamashita), Steve Winwood and Michael Shrieve. In 1976 the Japanese percussionist Tsutomu Yamashita formed what is generally considered to be a ‘supergroup’ owing to having musicians from Traffic, Santana and Return to Forever; the name of the group as well as the name of the first recording was ‘Go’. While not explicitly about the game of go, the influence of the game is quite clear in some of the songs. Yamashita is quoted as saying that ‘it’s a game of chance, random and abstract, with few rules. It’s also about opposites colliding, reality and fantasy shifting into one another, re-birth through suffering, and defeat turned to victory.’ Those with an interest in the confluence of jazz, rock music and classical music are likely to find it to be a very beautiful music journey.” -Graphic from the Wikipedia page for the album.