Hello Martin,
Well as I said, I have time for earlier Laswell so I'd recommend the first
few Material albums:
* Temporary Music (compilation)
* Memory Serves (has people like Fred Frith, Billy Bang, Henry Threadgill,
Sonny Sharrock playing - need I say more?)
* Western Lands (is that the title? with William Burroughs, Rammelzee, L
Shankar - again, any project with these people (particularly Mr Lee himself)
can't be bad)
* the soul album featuring a track with Whitney Houston on vocals doesn't
float my boat particularly, nor any later ones
Laswell's first solo album is very, very fine - Baselines, as is his duet
album with Peter Brotzman - Low Life. I'd also recommend any of the Last
Exit albums with the exception of their only studio recording, Iron Path.
I've got various other things, but they don't particularly grab me - it's
the same with the Panthalassa project/s - John von Seggern likes it and it's
my taste that I don't - but I'm glad to hear of another fan! If you haven't
read the Paul Tingen book, you might want to take a look.
One point of annoyance - Laswell's starting using Nils Petter Molvaer to
imitate Jon Hassell on a number of projects (the latter is a god, the former
an uninspired copyist. just my humble opinion)
All the best,
Colin.
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