SPACE-TIME DREAMTIME:THE FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MUSIC OF LORI VAMBE by LORI VAMBE
| SKU | 130101 |
| Artist | LORI VAMBE |
| Title | SPACE-TIME DREAMTIME:THE FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MUSIC OF LORI VAMBE |
| Label | STRUT |
| Catalog # | STRUT 340LPB |
| Tag | |
| Release | W 39 - 2023 |
| Format | Vinyl - UK2LP |
| EAN Barcode | 4062548064445 |
| Import | |
| € 44,50 | incl. VAT, excl. shipping |
Tracks
- strut340cd -intro
- drumgita
- ancient boogie mantra
- artnam
- mantra
- one boogie home going
- goin home boogie one
- un minuto one
- un minuto two
- going home boogie two
- going home boogie three
- drumsong one
- drumsong two
- drumsong three
- strumelody
- drumelody one
- drumelody two
- ydolemurd
- hum drum dring one
- hum drum dring two
Description
Occasionally, you find music outside the commercial mainstream, outside of everything – the music of visionaries, eccentrics, inventors, loners, the keepers of secrets, the path-finders. Moondog, Daphne Oram, Harry Partch are from this mould. And so too is Lori Vambe. This is the first ever reissue of Vambe’s privately pressed original albums from 1982, Drumland Dreamland and Drumgita Solo, packaged in a deluxe slipcase and featuring both albums in their original artwork!
2LP, housed in a slipcase with 4 page booklet
Vambe was born in Harare, Zimbabwe and his father, Lawrence Vambe, was a noted Zimbabwean journalist and author. Moving to London in 1959, Vambe immersed himself in the Brixton squat movement of the early 1970s, teaching himself to drum and creating a short-lived performance group, The Healing Drums of Brixton (Vambe, the sculptor Alexander Sokolov and outsider musician Michael O’Shea). Vambe later had a dream-vision involving a feeling of ecstasy while playing an unknown instrument that extended from his own umbilical cord; the instrument would manifest itself as the drumgita. In 1982, he privately produced a pair of home recordings, the diptych set Drumgita Solo and Drumland Dreamland, releasing them on his own label Drumony. On these records, he rejected any commercial aesthetic and employed tape effects, temporal shifts, reversed sound and overdubbing to investigate space-time and access the fourth dimension. Combining layered drums with the rhythmic throb of the drumgita and, on Drumland Dreamland, an improvised piano performance by Brazilian concert pianist Rafael Dos Santos, the albums are both hypnotic and perturbing.
Both albums were cut at Portland Studios by Chas Chandler and stand as a concealed monument of Black British experimental music. 500 copies of each record were originally pressed, and both were released together. The albums were never performed live.
For this first ever reissue of Drumland Drumland and Drumgita Solo, Strut presents the two albums in their original artwork, housed in a deluxe slipcase including an additional 8-page 12”-sized booklet featuring unseen photos, liner notes and an interview with Lori Vambe by The Wire magazine writer Francis Gooding. Both albums are fully remastered by The Carvery.
