b/art's Playlist for Friday, 2 July 1999 (23.00 - 00.16)
#40: Odd Nights Are Made of This
- § "Hashisheen: The End of Law"
- is an informative cd produced by Bill
Laswell / PL Wilson / Janet Rienstra on Sub Rosa. It attempts to retell
history so that alternate voices can come to the fore. So that we get the
sense that history is shaped ambiently and ulterior-ly as much as it is by
statemanship. The cd tells the story of the mysterious Persian sect of
assassins founded in 1090 AD. Anyone opposed to their secret freethinking
ways might be disposed of by one of its secret assassins. Hasan-i Sabbah,
the sect's founder, built an elaborate and exquisite garden of delights as
a reward for his hitmen's loyalty to the cause. The myth of the sect is
told mostly through fragments of texts written by the sect's members. It is
narrated by Peter Lamborn Wilson, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith and Sussan Deyhim
among others. The music sometimes creates the aural approximation of what
the garden may have been like. However fascinating the texts and however
lilting some of the music, the Bill Laswell-produced music sometimes strays
into sappiness which undermines the fascinating texts. And this from
someone who admires many of Bill Laswell's multitudinous sonic projects. A
bold attempt with mixed results, and yet, definitely worth some attention.
www.subrosa.net
- ¢ Press Color by Lizzy Mercier Descloux on Ze Records, 1979,
- is perhaps
one of the great (white) funk records [same label and time as James Chance]
and is that rare touching of the two bare wires of sexy intelligence and
great dance music that still holds up 20 years later.
|
| Cut | Artist |
|---|
| Wreck 92294 Intro |
| Complex | The Repeater [Simpletronix EP / Hyperspace Transmissions] |
| + "Nothing is true & all is allowed" | Genesis P. Orridge § |
| The Old Man of the Mountain (Chronicle of Arnold of Lubeck) | Percy Howard/Bill Laswell § |
| Nov. X Ray Mexico | Richard H. Kirk |
| Ascend | Adham Saikh [Ambient Systems II] |
| Technical Progress vs Normal Godliness | Radio Evangelista |
| Flamenco I | A Small Good Thing |
| Space Movement #9 | Creation Rebel |
| Hashish Poem | Nicole Blackman + unknown Persian singer + Bill Laswell |
| Hada Raykoum | Cheb Khaled |
| Mission Impossible | Lizzy Mercier Descloux ¢ |
| Players | Mark Verbos [Simple Answers / BML] |
| + I Am That I Am | Brion Gysin [Self-Portrait Jumping / Made To Measure #33] |
| 12 Points Subtracted From Your License | Funki Porcini |
| Kick (Man That Habit Man) | Brion Gysin [Self-Portrait Jumping / Made To Measure #33] |
| Slogans | Genesis P. Orridge + Helios Creed § |
| Dirty Static | Angel Alanis [Organic Moods / Thrust] |
| +Naked Lunch, the Film on France Culture |
| + Anonymous Harbor Symphony |
| A Pagan Use | Pablo's Eye |
| Dance of the Seven Dials | Exact Life |
| Absolute | Pablo's Eye |
| Tale of the Caliph Hakem | Genesis P. Orridge + Anne Clark + Eyeless in Gaza § |