{"product_id":"lori-vambe-space-time-dreamtime-the-four-dimensional-music-of-lori-vambe-cd","title":"Lori Vambe - Space-Time Dreamtime: The Four-Dimensional Music Of Lori Vambe [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: STRUT340CD \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 4062548064476 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 29 Sep 2023 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Jazz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOccasionally, 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e New on Strut, the first ever reissue of Vambe’s privately pressed original albums from 1982, Drumland Dreamland and Drumgita Solo. A self-taught drummer, inventor, and sonic experimentalist, Lori Vambe is a unique figure in British music. Creator of his own instrument, the drumgita (pronounced ‘drum-guitar’) or string-drum, Vambe intended to create a kind of music that had never been made in order to pursue access to the fourth dimension. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrumgita Solo\u003cbr\u003e A1. Intro\u003cbr\u003e A2. Drumgita\u003cbr\u003e A3. Ancient Boogie (Mantra)\u003cbr\u003e A4. Artnam\u003cbr\u003e A5. Mantra\u003cbr\u003e A6. (One) Boogie Home Going\u003cbr\u003e B1. Going Home Boogie (One)\u003cbr\u003e B2. Un Minuto (One)\u003cbr\u003e B3. Un Minuto (Two)\u003cbr\u003e B4. Going Home Boogie (Two) \u003cbr\u003e B5. Going Home Boogie (Three)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Drumland Dreamland (Part One)\u003cbr\u003e C1. Drumsong (One)\u003cbr\u003e C2. Drumsong (Two)\u003cbr\u003e C3. Drumsong (Three)\u003cbr\u003e C4. Strumelody\u003cbr\u003e D1. Drumelody (One)\u003cbr\u003e D2. Drumelody (Two)\u003cbr\u003e D3. Ydolemurd\u003cbr\u003e D4. Hum Drum Dring (One)\u003cbr\u003e D5. Hum Drum Dring (Two) (The Freedrum Song)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STRUT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42574500954268,"sku":"STRUT340CD","price":13.18,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/files\/unnamed_1_240f721b-da69-4077-92e2-d20475d489fb.jpg?v=1689943792","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/lori-vambe-space-time-dreamtime-the-four-dimensional-music-of-lori-vambe-cd","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}