Slope (album)
Slope is the debut solo album by drummer Steve Jansen, released in 2007 by Samadhi Sound. The album includes guest musicians and was recorded all over the world.
Jansen said: "With this album I approached composition attempting to avoid chord and song structures and the usual familiar building blocks. Instead I wanted to piece together unrelated sounds, music samples, rhythms and 'events' in an attempt to deviate from my own trappings as a musician."
Track listing
- "Grip" 6:42
- "Sleepyard" 5:13
- "Cancelled Pieces" 3:20
- "December Train" 4:14
- "Sow the Salt" 5:49
- "Gap of Cloud" 2:45
- "Playground Martyrs" 3:02
- "A Way of Disappearing" 1:57
- "Ballad of a Deadman" 6:25
- "Conversation Over" 5:07
- "Life Moves On" 2:25
- "Playground Martyrs " 3:01
Personnel
- Steve Jansen - drums, acoustic and electronic percussion, sampled instruments, synth, piano, guitar, string arrangements
- David Sylvian - guitar, vocals
- Theo Travis - sax, flute, clarinet
- Tim Elsenburg - vocals, guitar and electric piano
- Anja Garbarek - vocals
- Thomas Feiner - vocals, mandolin and sampler
- Bratislava Movie Orchestra, arranged and conducted by Ingo Frenzel
- Joan Wasser - vocals and violin
- Alberto Tafuri - piano
- Nina Kinert - vocals
- Recorded by Steve Jansen and parts by Steve D'Agostino, David Sylvian, Tim Elsenburg, John Mallison, Ján Machut and Ladislav Krajãoviã, Alberto Tafuri, Love Olzon
- Mixed by Steve Jansen
- Mastered by Tony Cousins
- Cover art direction by David Sylvian
- Cover design by Chris Bigg
- Models created and photographed by Dan McPharlin