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Bill Laswell, bassist and music producer

KBOO 90.7 FM Community Radio

Clark County’s own Rich, a frequent blogger extraordinaire here on this blog, is hosting a seven hour marathon highlighting the musician Bill Laswell on KBOO 90.7 FM Community Radio. It promises to be quite an evening for the weekend night owls among us. Here is some background on Laswell:

Meet Bill Laswell: legendary producer, master remixer, bass player extraordinaire and overall psychedelic sonic shaman. Bill Laswell has worked with a mind boggling range of musicians, across many genres and from all over the world, including such giants as Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Elvin Jones, Ginger Baker, Pharoah Sanders, Yoko Ono, Iggy Pop, The Last Poets, John Zorn, William S. Burroughs, Buddy Miles, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Afrika Bambaataa, Tony Williams, and Peter Gabriel just to name a few! Laswell’s approach seeks to create ‘a past that arrives from the future to scramble the present; drum-and-bass, dub, mutant hip-hop, harmolodic fusion, new jazz, world and other world musics all connect to expand the potential of the experience.’

And an excerpt from this Laswell interview:

How do you feel about the importance of music in today’s world, with the turmoil humanity is facing these days?

Well, I think if everybody played music I don’t think you’d have any troubles. It’s definitely an incredible way to communicate and I think people get a lot of not only satisfaction but also inspiration from music. I think it’s a way to open people up not only to sounds but to who makes them and different cultures and it’s a tool, a weapon in a way, against narrow mindedness, bigotry, racism, whatever, it’s got to be an important weapon that fights that every day because musicians all over the world, the real musicians, are able to communicate, regardless of language, culture or religion, they’re always able to communicate. That’s the KEY I think.

And Rich has provided the following about the show:

Nothing is True

Everything is permitted

A Bill Laswell Pledge-drive special

On Friday, March 21st, join The Outside World for the Seven Hours, Seven Souls pledge drive special, while we explore the vast body of work of Brooklyn musician, producer and agent of chaos, Bill Laswell.
From the downtown New York upstart Jazz Funk outfits Material and Massacre, to the extreme metal of Praxis and Painkiller, to his many dub permutations and ambient vexations, to his many World Music excursions and to too many genre-hopping collaborations to list here.
We’ll barely scratch the surface of his intimidating discography, but will take you on a voyage through more musical tangent points than you thought possible.

Join us from 11PM to 6AM, for Seven Hours, Seven Souls: The Music of Bill Laswell.

Some points of interest:

• Material
• Massacre
• The Golden Palominos
• Praxis
• Buckethead
• Otomo Yoshihide
• Brian Eno and David Byrne
• John Zorn
• Divination
• Jah Wobble

and many more…

Youtube video about the future of music which includes a brief interview of Bill Laswell (collapsible).