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With over 20 years of experience as a touring musician and composer and over 700 albums to his credit, producer and bassist Bill Laswell has collaborated with some of the most illustrious names in music across all genres and boundaries, including Herbie Hancock, Mick Jagger, Laurie Anderson, Pharoah Sanders, Yoko Ono, Iggy Pop, The Last Poets, Buddy Miles, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Afrika Bambaataa, Tony Williams, Public Image Ltd., Peter Gabriel and countless others. He has also organized and produced recordings with master musicians from around the world, having logged extensive travel in Morocco and West Africa, India, Japan, Cuba, Australia, Brazil, and numerous other locations throughout Asia, Africa and South America. In the United States and abroad, his name has become synonymous with a commitment to creativity, integrity and daring — whether in the recording studio or on stage — that has earned him the respect (and often lifelong friendship) of all the artists with whom he has worked.
Bill Laswell was born in Salem, Illinois in 1955 and fell into music originally for social rather than aesthetic reasons; he has often been quoted as saying “a band was like a gang.” He started on guitar but soon switched to electric bass, and in his earliest groups played soul and funk music inspired by the likes of James Brown and Johnny “Guitar” Watson.
Bill Laswell
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With over 20 years of experience as a touring musician and composer and over 700 albums to his credit, producer and bassist Bill Laswell has collaborated with some of the most illustrious names in music across all genres and boundaries, including Herbie Hancock, Mick Jagger, Laurie Anderson, Pharoah Sanders, Yoko Ono, Iggy Pop, The Last Poets, Buddy Miles, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Afrika Bambaataa, Tony Williams, Public Image Ltd., Peter Gabriel and countless others. He has also organized and produced recordings with master musicians from around the world, having logged extensive travel in Morocco and West Africa, India, Japan, Cuba, Australia, Brazil, and numerous other locations throughout Asia, Africa and South America. In the United States and abroad, his name has become synonymous with a commitment to creativity, integrity and daring — whether in the recording studio or on stage — that has earned him the respect (and often lifelong friendship) of all the artists with whom he has worked.
Bill Laswell was born in Salem, Illinois in 1955 and fell into music originally for social rather than aesthetic reasons; he has often been quoted as saying “a band was like a gang.” He started on guitar but soon switched to electric bass, and in his earliest groups played soul and funk music inspired by the likes of James Brown and Johnny “Guitar” Watson.
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Aisha
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Los Ibellis
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Oceans Of Borrowed Money
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Shoutbox
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optimistic_tour wrote:
thanks guys, i'm looking out for those ones. also I'm REALLY loving the collab with Jah Wobble "Radioaxiom: a dub transmission"
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dreamofrevenge wrote:
Silent Recoil: System Dub One. Try that one.
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demantik wrote:
dub chamber 4 also.
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VinceMillett wrote:
Nagual Site is a superb album
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optimistic_tour wrote:
so Invisible Design is best place to start? What about a second?
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adluna-records wrote:
Just to let you informed that Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell, and Jeff Parker are involved in the recent Doug Scharin project named Activities of Dust. Sounds preview and video here, enjoy
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Melies wrote:
demantik & praisingfolly: I would also like to choose Invisible Design as my first Laswell album but I just can't find it anywhere :-/ Any help, please? Some saint who will sent it to me via net? (I know I know, piracy kills music but there is no way for me right now to obtain it legal way, damn)
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ZurDruid wrote:
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dreamofrevenge wrote:
For anyone there: http://www.last.fm/music/Shin.e
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demantik wrote:
praisingfolly - i congratulate you for picking such an awesome and underrated laswell album as your first : ) however, i am not sure where to go from there...just get as many as possible.
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praisingfolly wrote:
I'm listening to Invisible Design and it's quite awesome. Where should I go next?
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napierdalante wrote:
249 268 cant uderstand why people dont know him...he relased so many many lps...
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martinbisi wrote:
Laswell will play with John Zorn on May 11th, Knitting Factory NY . event link: http://www.last.fm/event/595065
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Mittwochher wrote:
very cool enjoy it!
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TopRamen wrote:
He actually kinda looks like Fidel Castro in that picture.
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MiguelCosta wrote:
@[b]Sekhem[/b] -The not many plays I believe is due to bad cataloging of MP3s. I ended up here because I was looking for a band called Jazzonia, which ended up being the name of the album and not a band. And from the looks of it I'm not the only one with bad MP3s.
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mlansman wrote:
phew! ECLECTIC!!!
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demantik wrote:
Invisible Design -- Brilliant. Go find it. Let it grow on you.
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Xhi wrote:
One of the big three: Zorn, Frith and of course Laswell.
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satskone wrote:
http://remitur.wordpress.com/2007/11/03/bill-laswell-lost-in-the-translation-1994/
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