Bill Laswell
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Bill Laswell: Baselines (Elektra Musician 60221-1 US Import)
Review by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, 14 January 1984
I HAD HIGH hopes for Laswell's Baselines but large tracts turn out to be a bit of a pain, I'm afraid. ...
No Barriers. Tags. Frontiers. Trends. Jean Karakos' Celluloid Label Is Truly Independent
Interview by Gene Santoro, Pulse!, May 1987
SMALL RECORD labels usually concentrate on one particular musical style, or a related set of styles. Not Celluloid Records, which has sought from the beginning ...
Report and Interview by J.D. Considine, Alan di Perna, Musician, February 1992
The biggest style of the last decade has a problem with attitudes. By J.D. Considine ...
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 16 May 1992
Laughing in the face of musical categories, Manhattan's AXIOM label smashes through Techno stomp, space bass boogie, classical gas, Islamic rap'n'thrash, ferocious free-form jazz and ...
Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, 18 August 1993
From Sly and Robbie to Mick Jagger and Public Image, record producer Bill Laswell's client list is as varied as the sounds he pulls out ...
Bill Laswell: Super Barrier Brother
Profile and Interview by Kris Needs, New Musical Express, 4 September 1993
Respect and admiration this week go out to AXIOM label boss BILL LASWELL, breaking down multi-cultural barriers and making perfect musical marriages. ...
An Interview with Bill Laswell
Interview by David Toop, The Wire, December 1994
For almost two decades, Bill Laswell's music has traced a long, humid trail across continents, genres, moods, atmospheres and numerous collaborations. David Toop met him ...
Master Musicians of Jajouka: Stoned on the best Moroccan
Retrospective by David Toop, The Times, 22 July 1995
Rolling Stone Brian Jones was intoxicated by the music of the Master Musicians of Jajouka, says David Toop. Now they are in London. ...
The Last Poets: Bill Laswell on how to Produce A Holy Terror
Interview by 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 ...
Alan Douglas: Thee Man Who Sold The Underworld
Retrospective and Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, July 1997
Now into his fifth decade at the doors of perception, label boss ALAN DOUGLAS hasworked with many of the century's underground greats, from Lenny Bruce, ...
Interview by Chris Campion, Dazed & Confused, Winter 2000
MAVERICK PRODUCER and bassist Bill Laswell is on a mission to collapse musical boundaries by any means necessary. With a resolutely pioneering spirit, a typical ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, 'Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music', 2001
ONE OF THE new breed of record producers of the '80s and '90s, Laswell regards songs as "an old-fashioned primitive format". He is renowned for ...
Bill Laswell/Carlos Santana: Divine Light (Columbia Legacy)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, September 2001
IN 1997, PRODUCER Bill Laswell was granted access to Columbia's tape vaults where, using the original masters, he put together Panthalassa, his devoted reconstruction of ...
Jah Wobble's Solaris: Ocean, London
Live Review by John Aizlewood, The Guardian, 23 October 2001
NEVER AFRAID of embracing the cerebral, Jah Wobble's latest group project, Solaris, is inspired by Stanislaw Lem's 1961 science fiction novel and, especially, Andrei Tarkovsky's ...
Bill Laswell: Bass. How Low Can You Go?
Interview by John Doran, The Quietus, July 2009
Prior to his appearance at Montreux Jazz Festival, John Doran caught up with Bill Laswell in New York and uncovered some surprising information about Def ...
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