Tough work: Bill Laswell recommendations
Hi there, I never considered myself a Bill Laswell fan until I discovered "Filmtracks 2000", "Invisible Design", some of his work with Toshinori Kondo and Ernaldo Bernocci and Material's "Hallucination Engine". I already knew his discography has enormous proportions so I thought it would be good to ask you what you think are his ESSENTIAL albums, regardless of genre (dub, ambient, funk, whatever). Painkiller is covered yet. I never thought I'd get this guys work... Many thanks in advance. Best, Efrén del Valle ___________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y más... http://messenger.yahoo.es
Hi there Efrén... I'm definitely not a Laswell expert, but I absoultely love the Material album "Seven Souls" - which sort of takes us full circle to the William S. Burroughs thread of a few days ago. Great stuff. About the "Naked Lunch" DVD - just read a review last week that there is a 2-DVDs Set out that has Burroughs reading excerpts of the book in the special features section. Sounds interesting, doesn't it? patRice www.tattoo-source.com www.silverknuckle.com np: Iron Maiden, Powerslave nr: Bangkok Post --- Efrén del Valle <efrendv@yahoo.es> wrote: >
knew his discography has enormous proportions so I thought it would be good to ask you what you think are >his ESSENTIAL albums, regardless of genre (dub, ambient, funk, whatever). Painkiller is covered yet. I >never thought I'd get this guys work...
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Thanks a lot Pat. "Seven Souls" was a recommendation that someone made several years ago that I completely ignored and it proved to be a mistake. I'm also wondering how many of those Material albums are available nowadays. Best, Efrén del Valle n.p: John Zorn "New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands" (Tzadik) --- patRice <publicpat@yahoo.com> escribió: >
Hi there Efrén...
I'm definitely not a Laswell expert, but I absoultely love the Material album "Seven Souls" - which sort of takes us full circle to the William S. Burroughs thread of a few days ago. Great stuff.
About the "Naked Lunch" DVD - just read a review last week that there is a 2-DVDs Set out that has Burroughs reading excerpts of the book in the special features section. Sounds interesting, doesn't it?
patRice www.tattoo-source.com www.silverknuckle.com
np: Iron Maiden, Powerslave nr: Bangkok Post
--- Efrén del Valle <efrendv@yahoo.es> wrote: >
knew his discography has enormous proportions so I thought it would be good to ask you what you think are his ESSENTIAL albums, regardless of genre (dub, ambient, funk, whatever). Painkiller is covered yet. I never thought I'd get this guys work...
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i think all the early material releases on celluloid are out of print. they turn up pretty frequently on ebay, and as with a lot of the celluloid albums, much of the music turns up on compilations. and the earliest material songs seems to be repackaged and re-released every few years. most, if not all f them are not quite legitimate, at least in the sense that i don't believe the musicians see a dime from the issues. seven souls was reissued in the late '90s (legitimately) through triloka and should still be available, as was the most recent 'intonarumori' on palm pictures. almost the whole axiom catalog was yanked a few years ago when island was sold or merged or whatever was going on at polygram. at the time, 'hallucination engine' was one of the 2 or 3 titles that they kept available (presumably sales were good). i don't know if that's true anymore... dave np : pete namlook/klaus schulze - the dark side of the moog iv ----- Original Message ----- From: "Efrén del Valle" <efrendv@yahoo.es> To: "patRice" <publicpat@yahoo.com>; <zorn-list@lists.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 8:09 AM Subject: Re: Tough work: Bill Laswell recommendations / Naked Lunch DVD
Thanks a lot Pat. "Seven Souls" was a recommendation that someone made several years ago that I completely ignored and it proved to be a mistake. I'm also wondering how many of those Material albums are available nowadays.
Best,
Efrén del Valle n.p: John Zorn "New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands" (Tzadik)
baselines is a great early one. avant-funk with an edge. similar to the early material album memory serves. i love hear no evil, most recently available as a 2 cd set from meta. beautiful, kind of indian vibe with l. shankar on violin, nicky skopeltitis on acoustic slide guitar (mostly), laswell on lots of slide bass and a killer percussion trio of zakir hussain, aiyb dieng and daniel ponce. seven souls is the best material album. there's a version on triloka that sports a couple superfluous remixes, and another album (also on triloka) of completely inessential remixes (imho) called road to the western lands. that's just laswell/material highlights. he's had the heavy production hand on lots of other stuff i still like, but it gets pretty overwhelming. and the last exit stuff is all quite powerful, but a different bag altogether. he's definitely a guy who needs a better self-editing function, but it seems just when i think he's completely devoid of ideas and recycling himself ad infinitum, he comes up with something interesting again. my two cents, sean Hi there, I never considered myself a Bill Laswell fan until I discovered "Filmtracks 2000", "Invisible Design", some of his work with Toshinori Kondo and Ernaldo Bernocci and Material's "Hallucination Engine". I already knew his discography has enormous proportions so I thought it would be good to ask you what you think are his ESSENTIAL albums, regardless of genre (dub, ambient, funk, whatever). Painkiller is covered yet. I never thought I'd get this guys work... Many thanks in advance. Best, Efrén del Valle ___________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y más... http://messenger.yahoo.es _______________________________________________ zorn-list mailing list zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com To UNSUBSCRIBE or Change Your Subscription Options, go to the webpage below http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/zorn-list
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