Lori Vambe
DRUMGITA SOLO
(LP)
Strut / 05277561
12 Inch
Strut now present a new single vinyl reissue of Vambe’s privately pressed original album from 1982, Drumgita Solo.
A self-taught drummer, inventor, and sonic experimentalist, Vambe is a unique figure in British music. The 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. The album plays with time, mixing hypnotic, trance-like drumgita pieces with the same segments played backwards. You can hear echoes of African drumming traditions, minimalist repetition, and tape-manipulated musique concrète - but ultimately, the album defies genre. It is a solitary voyage, spiritual and futuristic.[info sheet from distr.]