Dear Nat,
as far as the Boniche Dub goes, Boniche IS a Jewish musician from Morocco
where there has been a Jewish community for a long time and one that has a
culture of it's own. Morocco is a pretty musical place and it is well worth
exploring for just that audio angle. the Gnawa music in particular is really
amazing. there is a festival of sacred music that is held in the city of Fez
each year that has accrued a following and produced at least one cd set.
another musician that i particularly love is Hassan Hakmoun who has produced
a wide variety of sounds with quite an array of people, check his music out
for yourself.
as far as the Laswell havana record is concerned, i was taken with it
upfront but i became less and less enchanted with it as time went on
because, and this applies also to comments on the Buena Vista Social music
that Ry Cooder inserted himself into that appeared here in the last week or
so, it would be nice for someone as productive as Laswell (or Ry Cooder for
that matter!) to just produce the music without inserting his own particular
brand of very deep basslines or rhythmic sensibilities or musical notions in
albums that reall sit right on the floor of particular ethnic kinds of
music. please don't get me wrong, i love Laswell's work in general (i said
the same of Cooder) but i wonder sometimes if the work of a producer is to
make the music sound as good as possible without inserting their own
recognizable sounds, or whether they are on the project for their specific
branded sonic identity. i would love to read some opinions on just that, the
work of the producer in the final mix or product.
leslie/The Power of Sound/ www.kazu.org
----- Original Message -----
From: Nathaniel Rahav <nat@rhythmlove.com>
To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2000 9:58 PM
Subject: That Bill Laswell Havana Record
>
> Hi All,
>
> Just to follow up from my long banter last week, here is the info on that
> Bill Laswell Record:
>
> Artist: Bill Laswell
> Record: Havana Mood (Rhum & Bass Version)
> Label: APC
> Origin: France
>
> (To refresh your memory, this was a record I brought up w/r/t the whole
> Afro-cuban electronica fusion movement... dubby productions of afrocuban
> beats)
>
> More info:
> www.apc.fr
> music@apc.fr
> 01-45-48-61-62 (in France)
> Distributed by PIAS
>
> Actually, in checking out their website I just saw that they're also
> responsible for another excellent Laswell release, Boniche Dub. This one
> is a dubby excursion into North African and very jewish sounding
> melodies...
>
>
>
> * Now playing:
> Yusef Lateef - The Gentle Giant
> Peter Walker - Rainy Day Raga (anybody know anything about this guy? this
> record is phenominal! looks like he used to hang with Timothy Leary)
> Off Limits 2 - compiled by Dixon
> Jazztronik - Inner Flight
> Zeb - Jesterized
> Airto - Seeds on the Ground
>
>
> peace everybody, enjoy your Monday!
>
> Nat
>
>
>
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