Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell was born in Salem, Illinois, United States on February 12th, 1955 and is the Bassist. At the age of 69, Bill Laswell biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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William Otis Laswell (born February 12, 1955) is an American bass guitarist, record producer, and record label owner.
He has been involved in thousands of recordings with many collaborators from all over the world.
His music draws from funk, world music, jazz, dub and ambient styles.
Laswell is Jewish.According to music critic Chris Brazier, "Laswell's pet concept is 'collision music' which involves bringing together musicians from wildly divergent but complementary spheres and seeing what comes out." The credo of one record label run by Laswell which typifies much of his work is "Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permitted".
Although his bands may be credited under the same name and often feature the same roster of musicians, the styles and themes explored on different albums can vary dramatically.
Material began as a noisy dance music band, but later albums concentrated on hip hop, jazz, or spoken word readings by William S. Burroughs.
Most versions of the band Praxis have included guitarist Buckethead, but they have explored different permutations on albums.
Career
In Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan, Laswell began playing bass guitar in R&B and funk bands. He enjoyed shows that combined genres, including Iggy and the Stooges, MC5, and Funkadelic. He was also influenced by jazz guitarists John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, and Miles Davis.
Laswell's career took him to New York City in the late 1970s, immersing himself in the burgeoning New York music scene. He joined producer Giorgio Gomelsky's loft and became part of a group of musicians whose debut of Material would be released. Daevid Allen and New York Gong's backing band made material available. The band consisted of Laswell, keyboardist Michael Beinhorn, and drummer Fred Maher. They were usually supplemented by guitarists Cliff Cultreri or Robert Quine.
He performed with Brian Eno, Fred Frith, John Zorn, Daniel Ponce, Ginger Baker, Peter Brötzmann, Sonny Sharrock, Kip Hanrahan, and punk in no wave, a style that combines avant-garde jazz, funk, and punk.
Martin Bisi formed a recording studio with him, and Jean Karakos, the operator of Celluloid Records, met Jean Karakos, the owner of Celluloid Records, met him. Laswell, a Material name, was the de facto house producer for Celluloid until the label was discontinued in the 1980s. Whitney Houston, Sonny Sharrock, Archie Shepp, Henry Threadgill, and the band Massacre, with Fred Frith and Fred Maher, made experimental music that mixed jazz, funk, pop, and R&B. His Celluloid experience gave him his first forays into "collision music," a British writer Chris May of Black Music & Jazz Review termed it "collision music." Shango, Toure Kunda, and Fela Kuti's albums were among the Golden Palominos' recordings and production on albums by the Golden Palominos. Celluloid was an early promoter of hip hop, having released albums by Fab 5 Freddy, GrandMixer D.ST., Phase II, and Afrika Bambaataa. World Destruction paired John Lydon with Afrika Bambaata a decade before Aerosmith and Run –M.C. "Walk This Way" is a rock/hip hop spinoff.
Laswell released Baselines, his solo debut album, in 1982. He had a breakthrough with "Rockit," a song he co-wrote and produced for Herbie Hancock's album Future Shock a year later. On the album, he performed bass guitar and co-wrote other songs, leading to collaborations with Hancock in the 2000s. He received a Grammy Award for his production of Hancock's upcoming album, Sound-System.
He first appeared in the band Last Exit in 1986, with Peter Brötzmann, Ronald Shannon Jackson, and Sonny Sharrock. The band was mainly a live one, with no rehearsals on stage aside from one album that Laswell cobbled together in the studio. The four members appeared together for the first time at their first appearance.
Sly and Robbie, Mick Jagger, PiL, Motörhead, Ramones, Iggy Pop, and Yoko Ono all have albums. Many of Laswell's bands offered Laswell the opportunity to recruit his service crew to perform on more mainstream charts. Sly and Robbie were recruited by Sly and Robbie to produce their 1985 album Language Barrier and the 1987 album Rhythm Killers.
Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records, gave him the opportunity to start a label in 1990, launching Axiom Records. Ginger Baker, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Sonny Sharrock, Nicky Skopelitis, and Bernie Worrell produced and sold albums on behalf of Sly and Robbie, William S. Burroughs, Bootsy Collins, Wayne Shorter, and Bernie Worrell. Egyptian composer Mohammed Abdel Wahab's album 'Sen & Violinist Simon Shaheen's collection of songs was included in the studio's series. Foday Musa Suso's electronic Kora produced an album of dance music, and Turkish saz master Talip Oezkan released an album. Master Musicians of Jajouka recorded an album in their village in the Rif Mountains. Mandinka and Fulani recorded albums at Suso's family home in Gambia and Gnawa music from Morocco.
Bootsy Collins, Bryan Mantia, Bernie Worrell, and Afrika Baby Bam from the Jungle Brothers were among Praxis's featured musicians on Transmutation. With several tracks co-written by Laswell, the album mixed funk grooves and heavy metal riffs.
Funkonomicon also included tracks from Praxis and Skopelitis, as well as tracks with Parliament-Funkadelic members. George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, and Eddie Hazel's last recordings are all included. The album features DXT, Umar Bin Hassan, Abiodun Oyewole, and Torture. Laswell remixed the Axiom catalogue for Axiom Ambient, mixing seemingly disparate tracks, and releasing some of the samples from Sample Material – International Free Zone, a sample library for other musicians to use as inspiration.
Subharmonic, designed by Laswell and ex-Celluloid A&R Soares, but not owned by Laswell, was essentially a tool for his inventions, mainly in the ambient or ambient-dub categories. A few publications from European labels for American re-release, including Psychonavigation with Pete Namlook and Cymatic Scan; Somnific Flux with Mick Harris and Cold Summer by Lull from Pete Namlook's FAX label; and Psychonavigation with Tetsu Inoue from Pete Namlook's FAX brand; Jonah Sharp and Terre Thaemlitz were two other collaborators. Painkiller, Praxis, and Divination, Lawell's ambient dub project, were among the label's albums. Strata, a new experimental dub/noise/ambient blend, was created with five new releases. Each of these (Death Cube K, Cypher 7, Azonic, and two under his alias Automaton) arrived in a black jewel box with the project's name and album title inscribed on the front.
Following the demise of the Subharmonic agreement, three other short-lived labels were introduced. Meta, which was supposed to be a spoken word mark, was one of the two. Submeta, the second label, had four releases before folding. Meta, a group formed with Janet Rienstra, has only released Baptism of Solitude, with novelist Paul Bowles reading excerpts from his Laswell's work over soundscapes. Meta would appear on occasion, distributed by various brands for the next few years until Rienstra's Reside as a Rienstra-owned spiritual/yogic brand. According to a sampler, Black Arc, a Rykodisc product focused on "Black Rock, Cyber Funk, and Future Blues." P-Funk members were featured on many of Bootsy Collins' albums and released albums (under the pseudoneering of "Zillatron"), Bernie Worrell (Japan-only), Mutiny (Jerome Brailey), and Billy Bass.
Eraldo Bernocchi and Toshinori Kondo were arrested (1999) by Laswell's label Innerythmic, which was released. After a brief absence, the brand was revived in 2001, with Nicky Skopelitis, Raoul Björkenheim, James Blood Ulmer, Shin Terai, and Gonervill all returning to the store over the next few years and albums. Innerhythmic also released a live recording by Praxis and reissued Black Arc albums from the 1990, including Zillatron, The Last Poets' Holy Terror, and Buddy Miles' Hell & Back.
Laswell's recording center, Orange Music Sound Studio, has relocated to West Orange, New Jersey, and it's now Orange Music Sound Studio. Despite Palm's umbrella, four albums and a DVD set were released, including a studio album and a live 2-disc set from Tabla Beat Science focusing on tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, son of Alla Rakha. Karsh Kale, Trilok Gurtu, Ustad Sultan Khan, and Talvin Singh were among the album's contributors. This group has appeared in the United States, Lebanon, and Japan. Other singers, including Gigi, DJ Disk, Serj Tankian from System of a Down, Sussan Deyhim, and artist Petulia Mattioli, have often supplemented Laswell, Kale, Kahn, and Hussain. Toshinori Kondo, a Japanese trumpeter, Laswell on bass, guitar, and keyboards, was released in 2001 by Life Space Death, as well as words by the 14th Dalai Lama in Kondo. Laswell oversaw the debut album by Ethiopian singer Gigi for Palm Pictures with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Laswell, who was on request of Blackwell. Abyssinia Infinite and Gold & Wax were two of his line's inventions.
In interviews, Laswell has admitted that he spoke with Miles Davis a number of times and discussed working together, but that busy schedules prevented them from arranging such a recording before Davis' death. For Panthalassa: Miles Davis' Music For Panthea Davis (1969-1974) (Axiom, 1998).
He began working with Sanctuary Records, which resulted in the development of his name Nagual. Bill Laswell vs. Subs. He started working in the drum and bass scene, beginning with Brutal Calling, which was credited to Bill Laswell's appearance on Brutal Calling in 2004. He and Submerged worked together again on The Only Way to Go is Down (2006) under the name Method of Defiance. They assembled drummers in drum and bass to perform with jazz musicians. With Buckethead, Herbie Hancock, and Pharoah Sanders, Evol Intent, Future Prophecies, and SPL, Evol Intent, Future Prophecies was recorded.
M.O.D. was born in 2010. Technology. Method of Defiance and Mesgana Ethiopia were two of the first products to be released by the band Jahbulon and Incunabula by Method of Defiance and Mesgana Ethiopiane by Material with Gigi.
Laswell, along with live dates from around the world with Massacre, Composition, Method of Defiance, and Painkiller, carries on the tradition of visiting Japan every year for recordings and live dates, including with Tokyo Rotation.
Bill Laswell was interviewed by the Data.Wave webzine in September 2017.
At the London Jazz Festival in November 2018, he appeared in Dave Douglas Uplift's band.
Laswell works with a select group of collaborators on a regular basis. Jah Wobble, Jonas Hellborg, and Bootsy Collins, guitarists Buckethead and Nicky Skopelitis, keyboardist Jeff Bova and Bernie Worrell, keyboardists Jeff Bova and Bernie Worrell, guitarists A-Funk, drummer Karsh Kale, and Punk musicians are among the Punk musicians. Robert Musso has been his chief engineer for more than twenty years. Oz Fritz has appeared in Oddits on occasion. Fritz is often Laswell's live engineer of choice, known for the live mixing process. Sting, Nine Inch Nails, Almamegretta, Scorn, Ozzy Osbourne, and Tori Amos have all been remixed. He has done a lot for John Zorn's Tzadik Records.
Laswell was invited to appear on the PBS series Soundstage in 2005. Pharoah Sanders, Foday Musa Suso, Bootsy Collins, and Catfish Collins were among the performers he has performed with over the years, including members of Praxis and Tabla Beat Science, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Bootsy Collins
Laswell co-authored The Bill Laswell Collection, a box set loop library developed by Sony Creative Software.
Equations of Eternity, Eraldo Bernocchi and Mick Harris's collaborative project, is also a continuation of Eraldo Bernocchi and Mick Harris' 1995 effort, which is an ambient music project that began in 1995 by Eraldo. Since the project's members live in different regions of the world (Mick Harris in England, Bill Laswell in the United States, and Eraldo Bernocchi in Italy), the group has been primarily studio-based, with its members performing music in their respective countries.