Lori Vambe Drumland Dreamland

• 1. Drumsong (One)
• 2. Drumsong (Two)
• 3. Drumsong (Three)
• 4. Strumelody
• 5. Drumelody (One)
• 6. Drumelody (Two)
• 7. Ydolemurd
• 8. Hum Drum Dring (One)
• 9. Hum Drum Dring (Two) The Freedrum Song

Occasionally, you find music outside the commercial mainstream, outside of everything – the music of visionaries, eccentrics, inventors, loners. Moondog, Daphne Oram, Harry Partch are from this mould. And so too is Lori Vambe.

Strut present a new single vinyl reissue of Vambe’s sought-after privately pressed album from 1982, Drumland Dreamland. A self-taught drummer, inventor, and sonic experimentalist, Vambe holds a unique place in British music. The creator of his own instrument, the drumgita (pronounced ‘drum-guitar’) or string-drum, he aimed to create music that had never been previously made to pursue access to the fourth dimension and forge a radical new musical language - intuitive, polyrhythmic and metaphysical. Drumland Dreamland is deep and haunting; a dense tapestry of layered percussion, time-warped tape loops, and spiralling drumgita figures, all underpinned by hypnotic improvisations from Brazilian pianist Rafael Dos Santos. It is both ecstatic and unsettling, a landmark recording in black British experimental music.