Stomu Yamashta, Steve Winwood, Michael Shrieve – Go

Classify under bargain bin progressive rock albums that are actually good – Go features the bizarre international “supergroup” of experimental Japanese percussionist Stomu Yamashta, UK blues rock singer Steve Winwood, jazz guitarist Al DiMeola, Santana drummer Michael Shrieve, and German electronic pioneer Klaus Schulze. The story goes that Michael Shrieve searched for Stomu for over a year after seeing a photo of him with a crazed expression sitting around a semi-circle of percussion instruments. The pair eventually met in Rome and put together the vision and lineup for Go. The album fuses elements of space rock with jazz fusion, pop/rock, blues, and classical music with a central theme of space travel. According to the liner notes, the album deals with “change and polarity-fantasy and reality, death and re-birth, things changing to their opposites.”

Recommended – A7 Space Theme, B1 Space Requiem, B6 Time Is Here