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Eardrum – Last Light
Eardrum
Last Light
Label: Leaf
Catalog Number: BAY 7V
Released: 1999
Last Light is the debut album by Eardrum, a UK-based duo comprised of drummer Lou Ciccotelli and percussionist Richard Olatunde Baker. A peculiar mix of free jazz, afrobeat, musique concrete, and dub, Eardrum’s music fuses the pioneering studio techniques of Lee “Scratch” Perry, King Tubby, and Teo Macero with African concepts of rhythm and percussion. Last Light is comprised of ten-percussion-dominated tracks, featuring additional instrumentation from Nana Tsiboe (percussion, flute), Gary Jeff (electronics), Matt Barge (trumpet) and Ike Leo (sax). Liner notes credit the music here as “the missing link between 23 Skidoo, Afrobeat, and Jon Hassell’s Fouth World project.”
Recommended – Full Listen
Tags: Afrobeat / Dub / Jazz / Percussion / Tribal
Tracklist:
A1 Swarm
A2 Lizard
A3 Roach
B1 Swamp Doctor
B2 City Collision
B3 Nightblind
C1 Plummet
C2 Nightcrawler
D1 From The Nucleus
D2 Low Order
Credits:
Artwork [Art], Design – V23
Band [Eardrum] – Lou Ciccotelli, Richard Olatunde Baker
Engineer [Engineered By] – Richard Olatunde Baker
Instruments [All Instruments By] – Ciccotelli*, Baker*
Mastered By – Dave Bernez
Mastered By [DMM] – Chris Ludd
Musician [Additional Musician], Electronics – Gary Jeff (tracks: B1)
Musician [Additional Musician], Percussion, Flute, Other [Tanzanian Twanger] – Nana Tsiboe (tracks: A2, A3, B2, B3, C2, D1, D2)
Musician [Additional Musician], Saxophone [Sax] – Ike Leo (tracks: A2)
Musician [Additional Musician], Trumpet – Matt Barge (tracks: A1, C1)
Photography By – Dominic Davies
Producer [Produced By], Mixed By – Eardrum
Written-By – Jeff* (tracks: B1), Leo* (tracks: A2), Ciccotelli*, Barge* (tracks: A1, C1), Tsiboe* (tracks: A2, A3, B2, B3, C2, D1, D2), Baker*
