Editorial Reviews
Sacred System, Chapter 2
Music Review:
Music Review
Rosalyra String Quartet Plays Beethoven & Bartok
Renaissance Dance Music/Early Baroque Dance Music
Music: Pageant [CD-single] [Import]
Spiders & Saints/Nothing Lasts [CD-single] [Import]
Star Spangled Banner-Power House Edition
Pai Heroi 1979 [Soundtrack] [Import]
Billboard, August 1997
"There are a sizable amount of people who immediately snap up anything that Bill Laswell is involved in."
About the Artist
Bill Laswell - Producer. Graham Haynes - Haynes just came out with his 3rd Antilles-Verve jazz release "Tunes for the 21st Century," of which CMJ said "a cascade of global space jazz." Haynes is one of the exploding group of young Turks on the contemporary music scene. Nicky Skopelitis - Skopelitis is a regular on Laswell productions since 1982, including Material and Golden Palominos. A master of the rock/jazz/world guitar, he has his own records out on Virgin and has a legion of... read more
Album Description
Immediately after remixing Bob Marley for Island / Tuff Gong / Axiom for a "new" dub electronic release (Sept. 26, 1997) and performing a similar task on Miles Davis for Sony / Columbia for a dub-oriented instrumental release (Winter '98), Laswell went into his new Orange, NJ studio to produce "Sacred System: Chapter Two," his 2nd release for ROIR. With the sounds of Marley and Miles still ringing in his ears, he brought jazz cornetist Graham Haynes, master guitarist Nicky Skopelitis, ace world percussionist Bill Buchen and Jamaican drumming legend Style Scott into the studio to create a new Laswell World Sound - a mixture of Arabic, Indian and Bitches Brew jazz - but Laswell NEW.