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I'll reluctantly admit that I own quite a few albums on which billy laswell is a producer or player.. he does seem to go for quantity over quality, and he's been mining the same vein of world-psych-funk-trance for n years now. that said, he's been involved in some ambitious & successful projects, although I can't think of anything recent that's really grabbed me. with a warning that my taste for his stuff tends toward the noisier end of the spectrum .... my essential B.L. list looks like this: massacre - killing time .brutal 'power trio' with laswell, fred frith and fred maher. totally great improvised aggro. the newer massacre album with charles hayward isn't nearly as good as this. they also appear on one side of frith's album 'speechless,' which is also excellent. p.i.l. - album (or "CD" or "Cassette") .not credited on the record anywhere, I don't think, but the band is laswell's, with tony williams, jonas hellborg, malachi favors, steve turre, ryuichi sakamoto & others. herbie hancock - rockit .however dated it sounds now, this was amazing at the time (1983). recorded at laswell's studio with michael beinhorn from material and D.ST last exit - everything except maybe "the noise of trouble" .jazz noise with laswell, sonny sharrock, peter brotzmann & ronald shannon jackson. painkiller - trio with laswell, mick harris, john zorn. yamantaka eye appears on disc 3 of 'execution ground.' caused aural hallucinations when I saw them play the cat's cradle in NC. master musicians of jajouka - apocalypse across the sky .laswell-recorded/produced sessions with the rediculously over-hyper master musicians of jajouka, morocco. still mind-blowing, though. a lot of the stuff on his now-defunct axiom label was pretty good.. henry threadgill, nicky skopelitis, sonny sharrock, maleem mahmoud ghania, here's what appears to be a complete laswell discography: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Underground/7093/laswell/ ethan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

--- Ethan Clauset <eclauset@webslingerZ.com> wrote:

quoted 3 lines that said, he's been involved in some ambitious &

>that said, he's been involved in some ambitious & >successful projects, although I can't think of >anything recent that's really grabbed me.

what did you think of 'tabla beat science: tala matrix' and his painkiller work? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

I haven't heard the tabla beat science, but I do enjoy painkiller quite a lot. sometimes. the ambient dub v.1 and v.2 discs are good too, and probably easily findable as cutouts. who's on TBS:TM? laswell's power seems to be to assemble groups of hugely talented musicians in order to make mediocre records. e On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, winblad.donald.ichiro wrote:

quoted 9 lines --- Ethan Clauset <eclauset@webslingerZ.com> wrote:

> --- Ethan Clauset <eclauset@webslingerZ.com> wrote: > >that said, he's been involved in some ambitious & > >successful projects, although I can't think of > >anything recent that's really grabbed me. > > what did you think of 'tabla beat science: tala > matrix' and his painkiller work? > >

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