Jan Schulte – Tropical Drums of Deutschland
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Discovered by the St. Louis-based Paradise is a Frequency crew, “Bob Siebert’s 1983 album Six Lyric Pieces is the kind of record that’s been flipped by for years. Noodly contemporary jazz with a fretless bass? No thanks. The guy is smoking a pipe on the back cover of the record, for shit’s sake. And yet “Rain” is a wildly compelling listen that effortlessly drifts between smooth jazz and new age. Or as Mario puts it: ‘Cascading ambient jazz, drip dropping dreamily on the windshield of a parked car.'” B3 “Inside The Music Box” is also a wonderful listen featuring a deceptively simple but incredibly addictive African thumb piano melody followed by light percussion and woody fretless bass.
Recommended – A2 Rain, B1 Forest Song, B3 Inside The Music Box
A1 Old Tunes Number Two
A2 Rain
A3 Cat’s Feet
B1 Forest Song
B2 Black Lace
B3 Inside The Music Box
Acoustic Bass – Chuck Sastre
Art Direction – Linda Karl
Composed By, Electric Piano – Bob Siebert
Drums – Dave Larson (2)
Engineer [Recording Engineer] – Manfred Knopp
Mixed By – Gene Parciasepe
Mixed By, Mastered By – Larry Gates
Photography – Vince Belford