Bill Laswell
Points of Order (Innerhythmic)
by Lex Marburger
Quick refresher course: Bill Laswell has been around since the ’80s, and has had some sort of credit on at least 300 albums, as either bassist, composer, producer, or “visionary.” A quick list of names he’s worked with (by no means exhaustive): Miles Davis, Ramones, John Zorn, Yoko Ono, George Clinton, William S. Burroughs. OK, so you know that people better than you like him and respect him. Now he’s got a new solo album on his own label. And what is it? Who’s on it? This time around, he’s got rappers Anti-Pop Consortium, guitar freak Buckethead, organist Grahm Haynes, and trumpeter Toshinori Kondo. You may not care or even know about these guys, Buckethead being an exception.
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