Bill Laswell
Anti Pop Consortium (Beans, Priest, Sayyid)
Toshinori Kondo
Graham Haynes
Karsh Kale
Karl Berger
Buckethead
Defining prolific artistic significance, Bill Laswell, the legendary composer, bass player, and producer continues to build on a body of work that singles him out as one of the highest achieving musical revolutionaries of the last century. With ‘vision, integrity and expression’ as self-direction and spiritual guide, his tireless productivity as producer and remixer (Miles Davis, Carlos Santana, Fela Kuti, Bob Marley), performer/collaborator (Peter Gabriel, John Zorn, Herbie Hancock, Pharoah Sanders, Tony Williams, Mick Jagger, George Clinton, Buddy Miles, The Last Poets, Afrika Bambaata, Yoko Ono), and label head (Axiom and Innerhythmic) has secured his place in musical history and shows no signs of slowing down. His travels and field recordings from Cuba, Japan, Morocco, India, Brazil, and West Africa have established him as progressive music’s representative ethnomusicologist–allowing every heard sound to contribute to his creation of music’s perpetual tomorrow. Credited with over 300 albums, Laswell’s ‘realization’ of the gifts of his contemporaries as a driving force behind his own creativity seems to be his ultimate fuel, and his first solo record in three years bares no exception. |