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The Cult

Dreamtime - 2024 Remaster

    Originally released in 1984, following the band’s evolution from the Southern Death Cult, to Death Cult, and then simply The Cult, Dreamtime finds the outfit featuring Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy, pivoting from their goth and punk roots into something eclectic, aspirational, and adventurous. Rife with lyrical references to the indigenous cultures of the Americas and Australia, and set against a more bombastic and muscular musical backdrop, Dreamtime hints at what would envelop the band over the next four decades, a dedication to their wholly unique songwriting, both musically and thematically, and the frenzy that was soon to come with the release of Love only a year later.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Horse Nation
    2. Spiritwalker
    3. 83rd Dream
    4. Butterflies
    5. Go West
    6. Gimmick
    7. A Flower In The Desert
    8. Dreamtime
    9. Rider In The Snow
    10. Bad Medicine Waltz

    Lori Vambe

    Space-Time Dreamtime: The Four-Dimensional Music Of Lori Vambe

      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 Partchare from this mould. And so too is Lori Vambe.

      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.

      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 DrumlandDrumland 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.


      TRACK LISTING

      Drumgita Solo
      1. Intro
      2. Drumgita
      3. Ancient Boogie (Mantra)
      4. Artnam
      5. Mantra
      6. (One) Boogie Home Going
      7. Going Home Boogie (One)
      8. Un Minuto (One)
      9. Un Minuto (Two)
      10. Going Home Boogie (Two)
      11. Going Home Boogie (Three)

      Drumland Dreamland (Part One)
      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)


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