Seven Souls

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 01:03:26
Material: Fahiem Dandan, Rammellzee (vocals); William S. Burroughs, Foday Musa Suso (spoken vocals); Bill Laswell (acoustic guitar, 4 & 6-string basses, percussion); Nicky Skopelitis (6- & 12-string guitars, baglama, saz, electric sitar, Fairlight); L. Shankar, Simon Shaheen (violin); Jeff Bova (keyboards); Jah Wobble (bass); Sly Dunbar (drums, Fairlight); Aiyb Dieng (percussion); Tetsu Inoue, DJ Spooky (sound effects). Producers include: Bill Laswell, Tim Simenon, Terre Thaemlitz. Personnel: Fahiem Dandan, Foday Musa Suso, Rammellzee, William S. Burroughs (vocals); Nicky Skopelitis (guitar, 12-string guitar, baglama, saz, sitar); Bill Laswell (acoustic guitar, percussion, bass programming, tapes); Lakshminarayana Shankar, Shankar, Simon Shaheen (violin); Jeff Bova (keyboards); Art Smith, Sly Dunbar (drums); Aiyb Dieng (percussion). Audio Mixer: Martin Bisi. Audio Remasterer: Robert Musso. Audio Remixers: Paul Conboy; Q; Terre Thaemlitz. Recording information: Platinum Island, New York, NY. Unknown Contributor Roles: Jeff Bova; Nicky Skopelitis; Tetsu Inoue. Arranger: Bill Laswell. Bill Laswell's Material project has epitomized the concept of "fusion music" for well over two decades now. Material is a melting pot of styles, sounds, and substance-a confluence of rock, gut bucket funk, avant jazz, electronic interfacing, steel-wheel manipulation, and experimentally minded underpinnings. Material quietly makes the necessary musical statement every few years, galvanizing the air about it, then moving on. SEVEN SOULS was originally released in 1987 and turned a few heads even then. Now reissued with a gaggle of white-hot remixes (by Terre Thaemlitz, Tim Simenon, and Laswell himself), Material's provocative late-'80s missive seems to resonate even more brutally today. William Burroughs' spoken text, his trademark vocal gravel croaking over a funk of molasses-thick bass, chirping electronics, abstract white noise, stinging guitars, and massed ethnic percussion, serves to offer up a rationale of post-modern sense in an increasingly convoluted world. Musically, Material has never sounded tighter, leaner, or meaner. Soul killer, stereo killer, mind-smelter-if the road to the Western lands leads to music this good, pay the man his toll, and get on to it.
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)