Bill Laswell
"If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room."
"If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room."
Deconstruction Of The 80s
Tiger Bay back with an incredible compilation album that features the great Celluloid Records’ producer Bill Laswell. The eclectic American composer team up here with some of the key figures of the 80s: Afrika Bambaataa, Material, Massacre, The Last Poets, Fela Kuti, Peter Brötzmann, Ginger Baker. A wild combination of funk, hip-hop, jazz, and highlife pieces all coming together in a great mix. A double album that is a might snapshot of an era!
Baselines
Bill Laswell is one of the most prolifc, infuential and innovative musicians of the end of the last century: bass player, record producer, label owner, his carrier escapes every classifcation. Starting from the enormous hit Rockit' by Herbie Hancock, Laswell boasts an outstanding artistic portfolio which includes, among the others, collaborations with Johnny Rotten, William Burroughs, Pharoah Sanders, Julian Schnabel, Sly Dunbar, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Yoko Ono. Baselines' is the artist's de…
Low Life / Last Exit
Two key 80s moments from Peter Brotzmann – split together here on a heavy LP! First up is material from the album Low Life – hard-handed work from the duo of Peter Brotzmann on reeds and Bill Laswell on bass – a set that's kind of a side project of the Last Exit quartet, and one that comes across with a similar sense of power! Laswell's handling a fair bit of basses here, often with a bit of processing – thanks partly to producer Martin Bisi – and there's a dark, electric undercurrent to the who…