Artist: Bill Laswell
Album: Deconstruction: The Celluloid Recordings
Genre: Afrobeat, Fusion, African Folk
Label: Celluloid
Released: 1993
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- CD 1:
- Timezone - World Destruction (5:33)
- Massacre - Killing Time (2:53)
- Jalal Nuriddin & D. ST - Mean Machine (4:42)
- Manu Dibango - Electric Africa (10:23)
- Bill Laswell - Worksong (7:15)
- Material - Memories (4:02)
- Peter Brotzmann & Bill Laswell - Death Rattle (4:28)
- Material - Reduction (5:32)
- Bill Laswell - Uprising (1:07)
- Deadline - Boat Peoples (7:07)
- Material - For a Few Dollars More (3:53)
- The Last Poets - Get Movin' (6:41)
- Material - Busting Out (8:02)
- CD 2:
- The Last Poets - Oh My People (7:34)
- Fela Anikulapo Kuti - Cross Examination (11:54)
- Ginger Baker - Interlock (4:54)
- Mandingo - Harima (6:04)
- Peter Brotzmann & Bill Laswell - Locomotive (3:43)
- Fab Five Freddy - Change the Beat (7:40)
- Shango - Shango Message (7:44)
- Massacre - Legs (2:04)
- Last Exit - My Balls/Your Chin (2:27)
- Material - Square Dance (4:29)
- Toure Kunda - Natalia (4:56)
- Material - O.A.O. (4:43)
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A more than adequate overview of Bill Laswell's work at Celluloid, where he successfully blurred the division lines between hip-hop, rap, reggae, African music, jazz, and avant-garde, this two-CD anthology includes his work as a producer as well as solo and band recordings. Laswell displays both his strengths and weaknesses (brilliant bass playing, over-reliance on some techno-toys, an ear for combinations, a tendency to lock down in one place). One of his strongest pieces, "World Destruction" (Time Zone, featuring Afrika Bambaataa and John Lydon), kicks the album off, and after that it's a true roller coaster ride that sails through various lineups of Material via Manu Dibango, Massacre, Fela Anukulapo Kuti, the Last Poets, and Ginger Baker, among others. Some listeners will explore further, which they will most likely find beneficial.
Review by Steven McDonald