Steve Lawler [Dark Drums - Volume 2]
Now here's something well off my usual beaten track, i saw this for sale on Ebay, and wanting to wean myself off of a heavy rotation of Classical music, and onto some very new ventures, i found this going cheap, so why not!, i guess it's called Tribal House Music, or maybe Dark Jungle or something, it's certainly very repetitive, i thought it would be more deep booming drums, and sharp treble drums and cymbals too, i found it recorded fairly quiet, and had to turn it all the way up to maximum volume, each of the tracks are too similar to really enjoy the whole thing, the beats seem to be hypnotically the same-ish on each track, the track listing is all wrong, there's 11 tracks on the disc, and 12 on the back cover, it was only on the second half of the album that i realized that the track listing is out by one, track 7 on the disc is actually track 8 on the back cover, i can certainly feel the musical scales falling from my eyes, and new loves developing, whether this becomes a disc i want to eventually keep, well time will tell, i certainly want to listen to it again.
Steve Lawler is English, not sure how old he is, must be late thirties, this disc was recorded in 2001, i bought it on the strength of the front cover [photo by Carlos Amoedo], a close up and fish-eye pick of some wooden window slats, lovely bent and bowed shapes, good to have the picture not completely symmetrical, and there's a superb range of blues in the picture, hinting at greens in places.
Well i found that all these tracks were equally good, it was hard to find something that really stood out from the rest, either good or bad, i suppose that it was track 7 on the disc [and therefore track 8 on the listing] 'Sound Of The Floor' by Menace which had that little something extra,
Here's 'Sound Of The Floor' by Menace on YouTube.
