Subject: IN STOCK: New LASWELL/BUCKETHEAD "SHINE"; CROOKLYN DUB 4; WOBBLE "ELEVATOR MUSIC
Newsgroups: gmane.music.laswell
Date: 2004-03-07 08:27:34 GMT (5 years, 17 weeks, 1 day, 7 hours and 55 minutes ago)
From DMG newsletter 3/5/04 dmg[at]downtownmusicgallery.com dtmgallery[dot]com Downtown Music Gallery 342 Bowery NY, NY 10012 212-473-0043 800-622-1387 TWO ITEMS CONCERNING THE 'LAZ' [MR. BILL LASWELL]: SHINE [BUCKETHEAD/BILL LASWELL/SHIN TERAI] - Heaven And Hell (Innerhythmic 16; USA) Bassist Bill Laswell and the deeply strange guitarist Buckethead have been making music of rare craziness and beauty together for more than ten years, both in and out of their avant-funk group Praxis. Working with electronic percussionist and "sound collagist" Shin Terai (who has previously recorded with Laswell under the name Chaos Face), they call themselves Shine on this album, and present a seven-part suite of dub-wise experimentation called Heaven and Hell with contributions from Nicky Skopelitis and Bernie Worrell. Each track is a numbered movement, and the whole thing proceeds and develops with a dark, slow intensity that sometimes (as on "Movement 4") judders along in a thudding, post-rockers style, and at others (as on "Movement 6") lapses into a sort of ambient and stunningly lovely guitar noodling. The separations between the tracks feel largely artificial, though -- you get the feeling that this whole album was made in one sitting, and it's most satisfying when experienced that way as well. Laswell's bass lines are rubbery and gorgeous, as always, and Terai's rhythmic and atmospheric treatments nicely complement the work of the two instrumentalists. Highly recommended. -- Rick Anderson, AMG CROOKLYN DUB OUTERNATIONAL - Certified Dope Vol 4: Babylon's Burning (Wordsound 48; USA) Nine years ago, a loose collective of rebel souljahs calling themselves the Crooklyn Dub Consortium launched a new movement in sound with the seminal Certified Dope, Volume 1 (WSCD003), a compilation which defined a burgeoning style from the underground dubbed "Illbient" by the press. Once again, one-upping the downtempo dummies, the crooked knights--including Spectre, Scotty Hard, HIM, and Bill Laswell-- return to prove that good music will always outlive the hype. 1/ Ph neutre - Brain Damage and Lab 2/ The Soundless Hum of Prayer - Philosophy Major 3/ Modimo - Zion Train 4/ Twlight Circus Meets WordSound Inna Crooklyn 2003 Style - Twilight Circus 5/ Finite State Machine Dub - Bill Laswell with Sly & Robbie 6/ Boombastic - Roots Control 7/ Disco Lips - HIM 8/ Eyupsultan - King Fader 9/ A Touch of Romance - Prince Charming 10/ Smoke Damage - Scotty Hard 11/ Ladies &Gentlemen.... Always - Teledubgnosis 12/ Pleasure Ruin Dub - Rupture 13/ Al Quaida - Spectre CD for $12 also available: CROOKLYN DUB OUTERNATIONAL - Certified Dope Vol 4: Babylon's Burning [2 LP set] (Wordsound 48; USA) 2 LP set for $15 JAH WOBBLE - Elevator Music Volume 1A (30 Hertz 022) Featuring BJ Cole on pedal steel, Harry Beckett on trumpet and the great Jah Wobble on bass and just about everything else. "My philosophy of life is very simple. I discovered a few years ago that I am the centre of the universe...without me none of this ... (by this, I mean all this) would be possible. Unfortunately being the creative centre of the universe comes with certain responsibilities. Yes even I have to follow divine law. Anyway, now is not the time to go into all that. I do still have hobbies, one of them is making music. 'Elevator Music', to be more specific. I recommend that you listen to this music in this fashion; Simulate the conditions of a typical elevator... invite friends around to your house/ room, pretend that you don't know each other. Stand, silently, in close proximity to each other. Try, in a rather self conscious fashion, to avoid eye contact. Attempt to get everybody to cultivate 'coffee breath.' If like me you don't have friends use mannequins, and spray them with home made coffee breath essence. Listen to the music at a level that is always slightly too low. The whole experience should be uncomfortable, disconcerting, mildly irritating, vacuous, and devoid of meaning. Enjoy." -- Jah Wobble. UK import CD for $15 BACK IN STOCK... OTOMO YOSHIHIDE/BILL LASWELL/YOSHIGAKI YASUHIRO - Soup (P-Vine 5856; Japan) OK, fans of Painkiller, Massacre and even Last Exit - this one's for you! Damn, I've been waiting more than two years for something this hard-hitting involving bass-supremo Laz, this time in a killer power trio with Otomo [guitars and occasionally turntables] and, from Otomo's New Jazz Quintet, Yasuhiro [drums]. Four long pieces: "Mushroom", "Seaweed", "Crab", and of course "Duck" [Soup]. We had to get these from Japan ourselves, so stock is ltd. CD for $23 THE MEN X PERIENCE [MENACE] With BILL LASWELL/VERNON REID/BOOTSY COLLINS et al - La Mancha Negra: The Black Stain (P-Vine 5354; Japan) Imagine our surprise when ordering current P-Vine releases directly from Japan and discovering that they still had a handful of this CD that drove Laswell collectors nuts trying to get even when it came out. This is rapper/funkster Menace along with guests Laz [2 cuts] , Umar Bin Hassan [Last Poets], Vernon Reid, J Cool, Keziah Jones, Donald Black, Adamhead, Elsa Cornish and special guests Bootsy, Bruce Mack [Burnt Sugar] and Maceo Parker. CD for $23 BILL LASWELL/PETE NAMLOOK - Psychonavigation 2 (Fax PW 24, Germany) Yes! We found a handful of this original [and only pressing - although Psyconav 1 has had many editions, #2 has never been reissued anywhere!] ltd. ed. of 2000 copies inside a box of our tax records from 1995 when cleaning up the mess of boxes we brought over from our old space last year. You aint gonna git a second chance [except on eBay for a lot more!] OOP CD $15 BILL LASWELL/PETE NAMLOOK - Psychonavigation [1] (Rocket/Subharmonic, US) Yes! 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