Divination 'Ambient Dub Vol. 1' (Conceived & Constructed by Bill Laswell)
Divination
Ambient Dub Vol. 1
Another excellent Bill Laswell project that is as the title suggests ambient, however not overly dub. Yet it has certain ingredients that aptly fit the title, namely atmospherics & 'Laswellesque' basslines that could sometime be construed as an abstract form of dub. Nonetheless, this is quite a hypnotic release, albeit in a rather downbeat format.
I understand that this (Subharmonic 1993) & its companion Vol. 2 (Subharmonic 1994) have been released in various guises. I have these in their original separate format, but I'm told that they were released in CD-Rom version with a graphical interface & later as a dbl CD (Subharmonic 1995?), although I have not physically seen either.
On this release 'conceieved & constructed' by Bill Laswell he is joined by:
- Lio Sola: Voice, Sounds
- Jeff Bova: Keyboards, Sounds
- Nicky Skopelitis: Guitar, Sounds
- Buckethead: Guitar, Sounds
- Robert Musso: Treatments, Engineering, Sounds
I'm not entirely sure of its current availability, but I suggest in order to support the artists you check in your local music store or internet resources.
http://tinyurl.com/jbgo7
Chardman has generously given us another bite to hear from the Laswell 'Divination' series. Please see comments to find link for Sacrifice. It was a 1998 release - 2 of the 4 tracks included Laraaji playing electric zither. This is a rather mellow mix of semi-meditative pieces. Thank you Chardman for this share! Oh, & whilst you're checking the comments to find the link, please spare a moment to thank Chardman.
And MiltonTheMonster has thoughtfully added another couple: African Dub, plus Somma - Hooked on Light Rays. You'll need to check the comments to find links & p/w. Thanks Milton for your contributions here - appreciated & certainly helps us all learn about other musics that may have otherwise been unknown.
Remember if you like these additional releases to go out & place the necessary orders with your local music outlet. It's the way to show your support.
posted by MoogPower @ Thursday, August 03, 2006
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Track List:
1. Divination One (BL) (3:42)
2. Seven Heavens (BL) (12:16)
3. Errata (BL) (4:20)
4. Delta (RM) (5:53)
5. Tian Zhen (LS) (4:20)
6. Agrippa (BL) (6:50)
7. Godspeed (BL) (8:20)
8. Ain Soph Aour (BL) (5:48)
Seven Heavens sounds like a weird, remixed version of the Bladerunner end-titles. I really like this series.
Let me know if you want Divination 2 or Sacrifice.
Cheers Chardman...no as per review I have Divination 2, but DO NOT have Sacrifice. Was that the one where he collaborated with Laraaji, if I recall correctly? Thank you for the kind offer - appreciated. :)
I have 1 (maybe 2, but need to check) Laraaji albums on vinyl. A long time since I've thought of him!
Peace out...
I'd never heard of Laraaji until I got Sacrifice. It's a nice album - very mellow - but nice nontheless.
Here's Sacrifice!
http://tinyurl.com/mwmyx
And i have "Akasha" but i find it not so good..Too much ambient for me!
is Divination ambient dub vol 1 in the same way?
Ummm, maybe cestlamerde...I personally think 'Div 1' was the best in that Laswell series. 'Akasha' is somewhat more drum n' bass orientated than this, still atmospherics (rather than ambience) as I'd call it is pretty much the key!
Still if you're one whose prepared to listen there are some pretty dark 'future' landscapes to be found here.
It's rather hard to say? :)
Cheers!
My you don't muck around Chardman - thank you for this & looking forward to it.
Nice can be a rather ambivalent word, like sometimes it's a kind way of saying boring. :) But I get what you are saying here...'nice' in a relaxing kind of way!
Ciao.
I do SO muck around!
Ask Mrs. Chardman.
No sweat, pal.
Great post, lovely Moogpower!
and a nice conversation, too - I totally agree with your opinions about Divination, Akasha isn't as strong as 1+2 ...
now, this get's me to "Somma 1 - Hooked Light Rays" from Eraldo Bernocchi and Bill Laswell playing with the chants of Tibetan Monks - is it common and posted everywhere? otherwise ...
this Bill Laswell related stuff coming lately is getting better and better - and his output is so unbelievable huge! krazy kat!
I first heard Laraaji on the ambient (#3?) album he did with Brian Eno.
There is another one: Divination - Distill (2 CDs) featuring Paul Schulze, Pete Namlook, Haruomi Hosono, Mick Harris, Thomas Koner, Anton Fier, Tetsu Inoue and the ubiquitous Mr. Bill Laswell. It is a good one!
I also have:
Somma 1 - Hooked Light Rays
It is nice to see some of this material posted here (and at Chardman's place) and I hope to eventually find some of the more recent Laswell projects that I don't have. If you need anything I've mentioned here, just holla!
Peace.
Feel free to let us know if there are any BL projects that have slid under the radar, Milton. I always find out way too late. He's so damn prolifice's he's like a comet; we only see what he leaves behind him.
Hi Chardman - thanks for the invitation to beg (LOL!)
First off, much respect to you and MoogPower - you are definitely on my "A" list of great music blogs. I am really glad that both of you are out there!
I used to be a little more connected with the music biz, and have a substantial chunk of Laswell's output up to about 2001. After that it is a bit spotty. As you know, keeping up with him can be a full-time job, and one of the primary reasons I am broke!
Here is a little of the discography that has eluded me:
SIX DEGREES REMIXED 2005
DJ CHEB I SABBAH * La Kahena
AZZDDINE * Massafat
LILI BONICHE * Boniche Dub II
CROOKLYN DUB OUTERNATIONAL * Certified Dope, Vol. 4 : Babylon's Burning
BILL LASWELL/HOPPY KAMIYAMA * A Navel City/No One Is There
BILL LASWELL VS. SUBMERGED * Brutal Calling
* Brutal Calling (2x12" version)
SHINE * Heaven and Hell
SLY & ROBBIE * Version Born
WORDSOUND RECORDS * WS50 : The Video Album
ABYSSINIA INFINITE featuring GiGi * Zion Roots
LILI HAYDN * Light Blue Sun
* Light Blue Sun Remixes
BILL LASWELL * Final Oscillations
* AFTERMATHematics
* ROIR Dub Sessions
BILL LASWELL VS. SUBMERGED * OHM/Offshore Split 10"
LUCKY PETERSON * Black Midnight Sun
PHAROAH SANDERS/GRAHAM HAYNES * With a Heartbeat
TABLA BEAT SCIENCE * Talamanam Sound Clash
SUSSAN DEYHIM * Shy Angels
U.M.A. (Ubiquitous Musicians Association) * Ja-ck
APC * APC Dance : Ignore the Beat
MARI BOINE * Remixed
GONERVILL * Gonervill
* Gonervill Presents the Freak Brothers
UMAR BIN HASSAN * To the Last
TOSHINORI KONDO/ERALDO BERNOCCHI/BILL LASWELL * Re-Charged #2
* Re-Charged #3
PRAXIS * Warszawa
QABALLAH STEPPERS * Imaginatrix
AKIRA SAKATA * Fisherman's.com
NICKY SKOPELITIS
* Ekstasis Live
HENRY THREADGILL & MAKE A MOVE
* Everybody's Mouth's a Book
HENRY THREADGILL'S ZOOID
* Up Popped Two Lips
JAMES 'BLOOD' ULMER
* Blue Blood
COLLECTION * Drop 5.1
THE DAMAGE MANUAL * The Damage Manual
TOSHINORI KONDO/ERALDO BERNOCCHI/BILL LASWELL * Re-Charged #1
ASANA * Asana 2 : Moving Meditation
SHIN TERAI * Unison
Anything you come up with would be most appreciated!
Please feel free to ask me for anything you need. I have something like 150 Laswell productions in my collection.
Keep on dubbin'!
Milton
Crap!
You got me trumped!
LOL! I just grabbed this selection off the silent-watcher discography (2000-2005 mostly). I thought I may be behind a little...
I read (a long time ago) that there was to be an album of Blind Willie Johnson remixes on Shanachie, but perhaps it was never released.
Well guys I'm a bit like Milton, where my Laswell collection has kind of gotten a bit thin since roughly 2000.
This hasn't been anything deliberate on my behalf, but seems that other areas in my collection have grown. Also I have a fair array of Laswell produced or collaborations that are on vinyl, so for the moment I can't post. I hope to get up to my vinyl collection at some point.
Oh, of that list you've provided Milton it is: ABYSSINIA INFINITE featuring GiGi Zion Roots, that I've been consciously looking for & the Lili Haydn. Other like six degrees remixed I didn't even know he had a hand in. I often see that about & will look a little closer at it next time I'm out buying some discs.
Ciao for now & best to ya all. :)
Errr Hmmm....so sorry M, nope I do not have Somma 1. Seems Milton made mention of that one too.
No rush, but that make quite a surprise sometime in teh future.
Cheers!
Somma soon come...
My collection probably looks like yours. I have a couple things that are not so common:
William S. Burroughs - The Operator's Manual (radio promo w/ long remix of Words of Advice for Young People and Spare Ass Annie radio show)
Havana Mood - Rhum & Bass (2-CD Cuban set)
Daevid Allen - New York Gong
A.P.C. tracks (vol. 1 & 2) - one of my favorites!
** the disc tray lists 2 other A.P.C. items I am curious about:
-Think About Brooklyn
-Think About Mustapha
Here is a little something I had uploaded elsewhere, link tested today:
Possession - African Dub (Bill Laswell)
Fousseny Kouyate : gony
Foday Musa Suso : baliphone
Aiyb Dieng : percussion
Bill Laswell : bass, sounds,beats
@320
pw=bill
http://rapidshare.de/files/26545951/pad.rar
Somma - Hooked On Light Rays (1995)
@320
pw=bill
http://rapidshare.de/files/28182423/s95holr.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/28179299/s95holr.part2.rar
*****************************************************
I was looking at silent-watcher.net for details (good source) and saw this:
(7/13) The Bill Laswell PBS Soundstage special finally airs today on most PBS stations. Check your local listings for times, re-runs, etc...PBS has no plans as of right now to release the full show on DVD.
Wow! Anyone seen this or have it?
Milton, you're tha man!
I'm all a twitter with anticipation on seeing the Laz on PBS!
We seemed to have turned your comments into a Laswell forum, Moog.
Hey Chardman - I guess it was inevitable (LOL!)
I can't find a local listing for the PBS show. Please fire a flare if you spot it!
Here is the PBS page:
http://www.pbs.org/wttw/soundstage/laswell/featured.htm
Peace.
Moog, if you are interested in John Frusciante's cd's, welcome at my blog.
If you want some clash, check out
http://serialslingshot.blogspot.com
lots of more goodies overthere, well worth a visit.
Cheers
Some info I happen to know relating to the title of the last track, "Ain Soph Aur":
30. The "Book of Concealed Mystery" goes on to state that this "Equilibrium hangeth in that region which is negatively existent." What is negative existence? What is positive existence? The distinction between these two is another fundamental idea. To define negative existence clearly is impossible, for when it is distinctly defined it ceases to be negative existence; it is then negative existence passing into static condition. Therefore wisely have the Qabalists shut out from mortal comprehension the primal AIN, Ain, the negatively existent One, and the AIN SVP, Ain Soph, the limitless Expansion; while of even the AIN SVP AVR, Ain Soph Aur, the illimitable Light, only a dim conception can be formed. Yet, if we think deeply, we shall see that such must be the primal forms of the unknowable and nameless One, whom we, in the most manifest form speak of as God. He is the Absolute. But how do we define the Absolute? Even as we define it, it slips from our grasp, for it ceases when defined to be the Absolute. Shall we then say that the Negative, the Limitless, the Absolute are, logically speaking, absurd, since they are ideas which our reason cannot define? No; for could we define them, we should make them, so to speak, contained by our reason, and therefore not superior to it; for a subject to be capable of definition it is requisite that certain limits should be assignable to it. How then can we limit the Illimitable?
(from "The Kabbalah Unveiled" by MacGregor Mathers, a 19th century occultist and friend of W.B. Yeats - both were members of the Order of the Golden Dawn)
Laraaji recorded an album with Audio Active in the 90's,the name escapes me ..........
Thank you guys for your comments here. Not trying to be rude, but no time to comment now - I have guests for dinner & just managing to sneak in a post before their arrival.
Will get back to this tomorrow.
Great.....Thanks!!!
For Audio Active, the name is "the way out is the way in".
Will i have the last word?
No you don't have the last word here cestlamerde my friend...if you see my latest post you'll see that I've been short of time so have posted something rather than spending the time replying to all the wonderful comments.
But fear not...I'll be back. :)
Damn...I have an Audio Active disc 'We are experienced' but I don't think either Laswell or Laraaji can be found on that one (I'll need to check). However, (without having to check) Bim Sherman is on that. Does that count? *lol*
Cheers all...
It's so wonderful to find a site (and blogger) that has such great taste in music from such a wide array of genres and enjoys sharing information and tunes.
To find someone grooving and sharing Bill Laswell is simply divine.
Thank you, MoogPower & Chardman - much appreciated.
Milton...Blind Willie Johnson remixed, if there is such a Shanachie release I MUST have that. :)
Just checked on thier home page...I can't find such a title, but that doesn't mean it hasn't come & gone? Will look into that a little further.
So does that mean we've already missed the PBS thing (July)? What about me, I don't get that out here.
Spare a thought for 'us' in that big land mass surrounded by Ocean. Oh well it will probably get a screening (somewhere) in about 5yrs time. We are always catching up.
Thanx Milton for the uploads - appreciated. Will get & listen to those in the upcoming days - I need the time. :)
Pax very interesting...so are you telling me that I should reconsider my atheist leanings, as it is not possible to define what is limitless (Mr God) & hence such explorations are fruitless based on this notion?
Aaaah those doctrines that demand faith as opposed to reason how logically illogical they are. :)
Thank you Billychic for your positive comments here. Warmly appreciated...
Cheers!
I'll have a few extra drinks for moogpower, chardman and milton. You made my night!!
Cool David...your comments are appreciated.
Ciao!
Milton Thus far REALLY enjoying African Dub some really awseome sub bass going on!
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