SEA & SKY

After recording some of the most interesting music of his career during the 70's, Stomu Yamashta went into a cosmic phase during the 80's (already an aspect of his in the previous decade) and recorded a few albums, of which S&S is the only one easily found on the Kuckuck label (which had now turned to a more new age label, rather than the 70's Krautrock legendary period) from his 80's works. I always view 80's albums of 70's artistes warily, because of the "have to adapt and survive" factor, but in the case of this cosmic music, the risks of ugly tampering are much diminished. No ugly synth or rhythm box, no sampling, just real instruments. The cosmic elements in this oeuvre are sometimes close to Zeit-era TD, the symphonic moments are a bit too grandiloquent than necessary for this project (then again I am no Yamashta). This album is halfway between new age and cosmic, having a very cheesy symphonic finale, which ruins somewhat the rest of the album that wasn't faring that bad, until the very last To Know track. Nothing worth writing home about, S&S has some very good moments, but too few, IMHO to be

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