{"title":"Lori Vambe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLori Vambe is a talented and versatile artist who has made a name for herself in the music industry. With her powerful vocals and captivating stage presence, she has captured the hearts of audiences worldwide. Born and raised in [City], Lori discovered her passion for music at an early age and honed her skills through years of dedication and hard work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer unique blend of genres, including pop, R\u0026amp;B, and soul, sets her apart from other artists in the industry. Lori's lyrics are deeply personal and relatable, touching on themes of love, heartbreak, and self-discovery. Her music resonates with listeners on a profound level, leaving a lasting impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to her musical talents, Lori is also known for her philanthropic efforts. She actively supports various charities and organizations that focus on empowering youth through music education. Through her music and advocacy work, she strives to make a positive difference in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"space-time-dreamtime-the-four-dimensional-music-of-lori-vambe","title":"Space-Time Dreamtime: The Four-Dimensional Music Of Lori Vambe","description":"\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew on Strut, the first ever reissue of Vambe’s privately pressed original albums from 1982, \u003ci\u003eDrumland Dreamland\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDrumgita\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSolo\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVambe 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 \u003ci\u003eDrumland\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDreamland\u003c\/i\u003e, an improvised piano performance by Brazilian concert pianist Rafael Dos Santos, the albums are both hypnotic and perturbing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor this first ever reissue of \u003ci\u003eDrumland Drumland\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDrumgita Solo\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. 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Strut present a new single vinyl reissue of Vambe’s sought-after privately pressed album from 1982, \u003cem\u003eDrumland Dreamland. \u003c\/em\u003eA self-taught drummer, inventor, and sonic experimentalist, Vambe holds a unique place in British music. The creator of his own instrument, the drumgita (pronounced ‘drumguitar’) 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. \u003cem\u003eDrumland Dreamland\u003c\/em\u003e is deep and haunting; a dense tapestry of layered percussion, time-warped tape loops, and spiralling drumgita figures, a l underpinned by hypnotic improvisations from Brazilian pianist Rafael Dos Santos. 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