Rites Of Percussion - CIGAR SMOKE COLOURED Vinyl

The solo debut album from arguably one of contemporary music's most influential, innovative and prolific drummers.

The 13-track collection is the result of a 40-year career in which Lombardo rose to prominence as a co-founder of Slayer, won two GRAMMY Awards, and expanded his repertoire across genres. Born in Havana, Lombardo has collaborated with Mike Patton and Fantômas, critically revered John Zorn, experimental hip-hop artist DJ Spooky and resurgent punk icons The Misfits, among others.

The recording process for the film score-like 'drum album' had a simple mantra: drums had to be drums. Mixed in early 2022 by Lombardo's son David A. Lombardo, the self-produced album features a large concert bass drum, a timpani, a grand piano and a bevy of shakers, maracas, Chinese and symphonic gongs, Native American drums, congas, timbales, bongos, batás, wood blocks, djembes, ibos, darbukas, octobans, cajóns and cymbals.