"Laswell steps into the Dread Zone, channels King Tubby's ghost & emerges with the most compelling testimony to date."- MAGNET
Bill Laswell is internationally known for his genre-breaking, innovative and revolutionary musical concepts - daring, original ideas that consistently transcend boundaries of musical content and context. By relentlessly rendering obsolete the comfortable delineations separating genres, techniques and cultures, he has created controversy and uproar in the press.
As a world class bass player and producer, Laswell has worked with Afrika Bambaataa, Bachir Attar, Bernie Worrell, Blind Idiot God, Bootsy Collins, Fela Kuti, Foday Musa Suso, George Clinton, Ginger Baker, Gil-Scott Heron, Herbie Hancock, Henry Threadgill, Iggy Pop, James Blood Ulmer, Maceo Parker, Laurie Anderson, Mandingo, Manu Dibango, Material, Last Exit, Mick Jagger, Motorhead, Nicky Skopelitis, Peter Brotzman, Praxis, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sly & Robbie, Sonny Sharrock, Swans, Last Poets, Yellowman, Yoko Ono, Brian Eno, Golden Palominos, John Zorn, Painkiller, Peter Gabriel, and so many more.
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