Axiom Ambient: Lost in the Translation

Axiom Ambient | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 8, 1994)
• Original Release Date: 1994
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Axiom
• ASIN: B000000GB4
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #269,294 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Eternal Drift

2. Peace

3. Aum

4. Cosmic Trigger

Disc: 2

1. Dharmapala

2. Flash Of Panic

3. Holy Mountain

4. Ruins

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars one of bill's best "cut n' splices", April 12, 2008

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crown of indica "buckethead noir" (saint paul,mn,usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Axiom Ambient: Lost in the Translation (Audio CD)

this is a great example of how laswell's layering and melding of different songs comes into play.an ambient record comprised of some of the most heartfelt tunes that were on the axiom label!if you dig chill-grooves,this is seriously a must-have!!!

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Think Of Bill Laswell As Barry White, February 2, 2003

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bluejim (Castro Valley, California United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Axiom Ambient: Lost in the Translation (Audio CD)

This album is his Love Unlimited Orchestra. I mean that in a good way. If you own any or all of the albums these "reconfigurations" are based upon, this is just a really cool way to revisit them in not such an edgy manner. But don't worry, they haven't had the life sucked out of them, or been dumbed-down. This is Ambient with balls, if you will.

14 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars .....a masterpiece to me......, February 7, 2002

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Alejandro Rivera Castillo (Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Axiom Ambient: Lost in the Translation (Audio CD)

....The geniality of this work is beyond words to me....although I do believe is not for everyone, since it deals with a quiestion out of our time and space....which is death....our own death.....so this work stays most of the time on rather obscure and meditative sounds.....and you have to be in a very special mood to capture all of its thougt and greatness...and obviously.....as the very title of the album itself says:.....you have to think about your very own "Translation" out of this life as we know it....no wonder the author uses the word "lost" too....because we're a dealing with a concept clearly beyond our knowledge now....where we are gonna be out of everything.....out of this world, out of ourselves, out of our mind, out of our time.....maybe even out of our very own souls as we know them.....But also the great thing about this piece of art is that it doesn't present the phenomena in a disturbing and alarming way.....but rather in the rather a quiet and meditative mood that makes you think about the relativity of everything.....even eternity in itself.