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City of Light

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フォーマット LPレコード
発売日 2021年09月03日
国内/輸入 輸入
レーベルInfinite Fog Productions
構成数 1
パッケージ仕様 -
規格品番 IF69LP
SKU 8016670131595

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:00:00
Personnel includes: Coil, Lori Carson, Jah Wobble. Laswell's a world-weary traveller of sonic spaces, but on CITY OF LIGHT, he seeks to bring the sacredness of some of history's most cherished musics out from the shadows and into more tangible realms. Enlisting the aide of a few once and future collaborators (Tetsu Inoue, Trilok Gurtu, Coil, Hakim Bey, Lori Carson), Laswell pulls the disparate musical souls together for another sojourn towards a musical holy grail. In conjunction with the spiritually-infused spoken dialogues of Carson and Bey, Laswell and his crew unearth rhythms seared from volcanic chasms, old tongues, and primitive civilizations. "Nothing" situates the listener in a void peppered by Gurtu's tablas and Inoue's great, yawning ambient systems. Then there's "Kala", where Coil un-coils itself into broad, spacious soundscapes where the patter of tablas set up nimble rhythmic arcs and Laswell's bass punctuates the blackness. Travel through this city with hushed awe.

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    1. 1.
      Nothing

      アーティスト: Bill Laswell

    2. 2.
      Kashi

      アーティスト: Bill Laswell

    3. 3.
      Kala

      アーティスト: Bill Laswell

    4. 4.
      Above The Earth

      アーティスト: Bill Laswell

作品の情報

メイン
アーティスト: Bill Laswell

ゲスト
featuring: Coil

商品の紹介

Option (11-12/97, pp.102-103) - "...filled with the sounds of India. Again, Laswell has managed to leap across cultures and genres to create something yet unheard..."
Rovi

While it may appear an anachronism in his catalog, fans of Bill Laswell will find City of Light an extension of ideas he has explored throughout his career. His strong interest in Eastern music and religion resulted in this 1997 collaboration with Janet Rienstra. Part sacred, spoken word, part meditative soundscape, City of Light takes as its inspiration the holy region of Banaras, India. Said to belong to Shiva, Banaras also contains the Ganges river: a place sought by Hindus for their cremation. Each song on this album contains text arranged by Rienstra and delivered by singer Lori Carson in soft, spoken words, breathy lines, and ghostly whispers. While the album concept may dissuade many listeners, religion is hardly its only dominating element. Surrounding the texts is some of the most compelling music the ambient genre has produced. The opening "Nothing" features a lengthy passage of tabla playing by Trilok Gurtu. The instruments slow construction and dissipation of dynamics and myriad of rhythms create a fascinating narrative of its own. The closing to "Kala" builds tension through the repetition of spring-like electronic tones that rise out of Carson's erie, unintelligible whispering. Laswell lends his own sparse, dub-influenced bass to "Above the Earth," playing against a buried clatter of metallic drums. Why City of Light bears Laswell's name however, is something of a mystery. He is only credited as a performer on two tracks: the album bookends, "Nothing" and "Above the Earth" (both of which he co-wrote with Carson). While he undoubtedly contributed a great deal (shaping the sound collages of Coil and Tetsu Inoue), the combined efforts on City of Light would seem to merit a collective title of its own. ~ Nathan Bush
Rovi

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