Tropical Rainstorm Steel Band

Artist: Tropical Rainstorm Steel Band

LP: Yours Truly

Song: "Give More Tempo"
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This Tropical Rainstorm Steel Band LP was released on Seattle's Topaz Records back in 1978. You can read a bit about the label and how it helped influence the city's music scene here. And from Norene Gilbert—aka. "Miss Washington, USA of 1976," here's some gibberish about tropical rainstorms from the back of the record:

On the subject of
Tropical Rainstorms. . .

I stood gazing
through my window eyes—
deep into the storm—
it thundered in me
through me. . .
enhancing my transparency

droplet to droplet
puddle to puddle. . .

rolling waves into waters

I became the storm

following one without
the other. . .

thundering. . .
the rains of a thousand tropics

. . .I am my own mirages
following away

. . .the silence. . .

--Norene Gilbert