It's been nine years since the release of the first solo CD by Ramon Lopez
(
Eleven Drums Songs).
For his second solo CD he came up with an utterly original concept. To
realise the concept he needed the help of
Teppo Hauta-Aho (the bass player
in the Cecil Taylor European Quartet) who literally plays the squeaking
doors in his house and sauna. Ramon improvises around these sound using
brushes, metallophone, soft plastic mallets, drumsticks, ocarina, fingers,
darbouka, ratatar, balafon, metal chimes, bamboo chimes, cajon, tabla,
cowbells, castanets, and some other instruments one has never heard of. His
drums were recorded live without any overdubs.
