Slope (album)

Slope
Studio album by Steve Jansen
Released	22 October 2007
Recorded	The Vestry, London - Stockholm - Oslo - Straysound Studio, Sweden - Samadhisound Studios, USA - Trout Recording, Brooklyn - Blue Sky Falls, London - Slovak Radio Bratislava Studio 5, Bratislava - Milan, Italy
Genre	Alternative rock, Electronic music
Label	Samadhi Sound
Producer	Steve Jansen

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."^[1]

Track listing

1. "Grip" (Jansen) 6:42
2. "Sleepyard" (Jansen/Tim Elsenburg) 5:13
3. "Cancelled Pieces" (Jansen/Anja Garbarek) 3:20
4. "December Train" (Jansen) 4:14
5. "Sow the Salt" (Jansen/Thomas Feiner) 5:49
6. "Gap of Cloud" (Jansen) 2:45
7. "Playground Martyrs" (Jansen/Sylvian) 3:02
8. "A Way of Disappearing" (Jansen) 1:57
9. "Ballad of a Deadman" (Jansen/Sylvian) 6:25
10. "Conversation Over" (Jansen) 5:07
11. "Life Moves On" (Jansen) 2:25
12. "Playground Martyrs (Reprise)" (Jansen/Sylvian) 3:01

Personnel

• Steve Jansen - drums, electronic percussion, sampler, synth, piano (5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12), guitar (5, 9), string arrangement (7, 9, 11), recording
• David Sylvian - guitar (3, 9), vocals (7, 9), art direction
• Theo Travis - sax (1, 2, 10), flute (6, 9), clarinet (8)
• Tim Elsenburg - vocals (2), guitar (2), Electric Piano (2)
• Anja Garbarek - vocals (3)
• Ingo Frenzel - orchestra arranger (5), conductor (5)
• Thomas Feiner - vocals (5), mandolin (5), sampler (5)
• Bratislava Movie Orchestra (5)
• Joan Wasser - vocals (9), violin (9)
• Alberto Tafuri - piano [Second Piano Cycle] (11)
• Nina Kinert - vocals (12)

References

External links

• Official site