Slope is the debut solo album by drummer Steve Jansen

Steve Jansen

Steve Jansen is an English drummer, percussionist, singer and composer. He was educated at Catford Boys' School, Catford, South East London, where he failed academically, leaving at 16....

, 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

1. "Grip" (Jansen)
2. "Sleepyard" (Tim Elsenburg)
3. "Cancelled Pieces" (Anja Garbarek)
4. "December Train" (Jansen)
5. "Sow the Salt" (Thomas Feiner)
6. "Gap of Cloud" (Jansen)
7. "Playground Martyrs" (Sylvian)
8. "A Way of Disappearing" (Jansen)
9. "Ballad of a Deadman" (Sylvian)
10. "Conversation Over" (Jansen)
11. "Life Moves On" (Jansen)
12. "Playground Martyrs (Reprise)" (Sylvian)

Personnel

• Steve Jansen
  Steve Jansen
  Steve Jansen is an English drummer, percussionist, singer and composer. He was educated at Catford Boys' School, Catford, South East London, where he failed academically, leaving at 16....
  
   - drums , electronic percussion, sampler, synth, piano (5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12), guitar (5, 9), string arrangement (7, 9, 11), recording
• David Sylvian
  David Sylvian
  David Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan...
  
   - guitar (3, 9), vocals (7, 9), art direction
• Theo Travis
  Theo Travis
  Theo Travis is a British saxophonist and flautist.Travis received his degree in flute and saxophone from the University of Manchester and has worked among others with Robert Fripp, Gong, Porcupine Tree, The Tangent, Bill Nelson, Bass Communion, No-Man, Steven Wilson, David Sylvian, Harold Budd,...
  
   - sax (1, 2, 10), flute (6, 9), clarinet (8)
• Tim Elsenburg - vocals (2), guitar (2), Electric Piano (2)
• Anja Garbarek
  Anja Garbarek
  Anja Garbarek is a Norwegian singer-songwriter of mixed Norwegian and Polish descent. She is the daughter of the Norwegian jazz saxophonist Jan Garbarek and grew up around Oslo. She received the Spellemannsprisen in 2001 for her album Smiling & Waving in the open class category. She is married to...
  
   - vocals (3)
• Ingo Frenzel - orchestra arranger (5), conductor (5)
• Thomas Feiner - vocals (5), mandolin (5), sampler (5)
• Bratislava Movie Orchestra (5)
• Joan Wasser
  Joan Wasser
  Joan Wasser is a violinist and singer/songwriter in the indie rock world. She began her career playing violin with the Dambuilders. She has released three albums as a singer songwriter, the 2006 Real Life the 2008 To Survive and the 2011 The Deep Field...
  
   - vocals (9), violin (9)
• Alberto Tafuri - piano [Second Piano Cycle] (11)
• Nina Kinert
  Nina Kinert
  Nina Kinert is a Swedish musician/artist.Her sound is a mix between pop, folk and electronic music .In 2004 she released her first album "Heartbreaktown" with SonyMusic....
  
  - vocals (12)