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The Last Poets: Bill Laswell on how to Produce A Holy Terror

J.D. Considine, Musician, September 1995

USUALLY, THE relationship between words and music on a recording puts the music first and the words second. But when Bill Laswell began work on the Last Poets' album Holy Terror, he not only started with the words, he let them dictate the sound of the music.

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