there’s this brief bit from Slug’s excellent first album. Ian Black wrote this about it, which has stuck in my mind for some reason,
I wanted to do an ambient piece using the colour of steel drums, I wanted something extremely minimal to break up the album so as to allow the listener to breathe for a bit without having musical idea after musical idea thrown at them, To create this piece a friend of mine helped break me into a certain music venue. I wasn’t aware that we weren’t meant to be there until he turned off the lights, looked slyly out out the window and announced, “We have 45 minutes”. I’m happy with the result even though in those 45 minutes I had to learn how to play the instrument.
