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...Bachir Attar’s musicians recorded Apocalypse Across the Sky for Bill Laswell 30 years ago, and have since worked with everyone from Ornette Coleman to The Rolling Stones....
...His aide memoire takes the form of a feisty sextet that twins his brittle-and-brassy lines with the gruff warmth of Joe Lovano’s tenor sax and adds two electric guitars, Bill Laswell’s grungy bass and the...
...A Franco-American alliance between maestro bassist Bill Laswell and transplanted Parisian scenester Jean Karakos, the label had a wildly eclectic roster of acts, as illustrated by the excellent two-CD compilation...
...He teamed up with Bronx producer Bill Laswell and in 1983 released Future Shock, which contained the hit single “Rockit”. Hancock recorded two more albums with Laswell, including his last for Columbia....
...The impressive Dorf were followed by Swedish acoustic jazz, an ear-shattering piano power trio – with Bill Laswell on bass – and a set from Brazilian singer Lenine, whose warm-hearted guitar riffs were fleshed...
...The album sold more than 100,000 copies and led to collaborations with the likes of Jah Wobble and Bill Laswell. His most recent CD, Hamada, has strong Arabic overtones....
...Nichols, featuring backing tracks of tunes such as “Addicted to Love” by Robert Palmer and “Like a Virgin” by Madonna, rearranged and specially recorded by the company at its Paris studio and producer Bill Laswell...
...There was one sublime village hall moment when bass guitarist Bill Laswell plugged in and bawled: “I need some power”. Zorn’s métier is as much composing and organising as his musicianship....
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