Drumgita Solo
Description
Lori Vambe was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, to his father, Lawrence Vambe, a renowned Zimbabwean journalist and author. After moving to London in 1959, Vambe immersed himself in the Brixton squat movement of the early 1970s, taught himself to play the drums, and formed a short-lived group called The Healing Drums of Brixton (with sculptor Alexander Sokolov and foreign musician Michael O'Shea). Vambe later had a dreamlike vision of a feeling of ecstasy while playing an unknown instrument made from his own umbilical cord, which would eventually take shape as the “drumgita.”
Strut now presents a new vinyl single reissue of Vambe’s original 1982 self-released album Drumgita Solo. A self-taught drummer, inventor, and sound experimenter, Vambe is a unique figure in British music. He created his own instrument, the drumgita (pronounced “drum-guitar”), a stringed drum, with the intention of producing entirely new music that would grant access to the fourth dimension. The album plays with time, blending hypnotic, trance-like drumgita tracks with identical segments played in reverse. Echoes of African percussion traditions, minimalist repetition, and tape-manipulated musique concrète can be heard throughout—but ultimately, the album defines its own genre. It’s a solitary, spiritual, and futuristic journey.
Tracklist
A2. DRUMSONG TWO
A3. DRUMSONG THREE
A4. STRUMELODY
B1. DRUMELODY ONE
B2. DRUMELODY TWO
B3. YDOLEMURD
B4. HUM DRUM DRING ONE
B5. HUM DRUM DRING TWO
THE FREEDRUM SONG
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