Hear No Evil

Bill Laswell | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 25, 2000)
• Original Release Date: January 25, 2000
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Metastation
• ASIN: B00003TL0U
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,429 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Review

To realize Hear No Evil, bassist/super-producer Bill Laswell tapped a group of world-class musicians. The divergent virtuosity of such aces as violinist L Shankar, guitarist Nicky Skopelitis, and percussionist Aiyb Dieng blend seamlessly under the leader's acute sense of direction. Assassin hints of near-Eastern desolation á la Led Zeppelin's Kashmir, but most of the album follows the rustic grooves of Lost Roads... the second coming of Hear No Evil is all good... --Billboard Magazine

Product Description

The merging of Eastern and Western tonalities is the obvious point of focus but much more important and somewhat below surface if the deliverance of a true American soundtrack of deep tangled roots, flashes of erased origins, hidden meanings and long gone dreams.The mysterious majestic sonorities of India meet the slow rustic lope of an almost country atmosphere, a rural Mid Western sensibility.

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20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Billboard Magazine Review Jan. 2000, May 31, 2000

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This review is from: Hear No Evil (Audio CD)

BILL LASWELL Hear No Evil Hear No Evil originally released in 1988, marked one of the truly world fusion creations. The original CD is remastered, and a second full length CD of two extended mix translations were created especially for Meta Records. "To realize Hear No Evil, bassist/super-producer Bill Laswell tapped a group of world-class musicians. The divergent virtuosity of such aces as violinist L. Shankar, guitarist Nicky Skopelitis, and percussionist Aiyb Dieng blend seamlessly under the leader's acute sense of direction. 'Assassin' hints of near-Eastern desolation á la Led Zeppelin's 'Kashmir,' but most of the album follows the rustic grooves of 'Lost Roads'....the second coming of Hear No Evil' is all good..." -Billboard Magazine, Jan. 2000

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent recording, January 14, 2011

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Intergalatic Purveyor (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hear No Evil (Audio CD)

The Bill board review is spot on. The remastering on this is excellent. I had the original CD since it was released on Virgin in 1988 and the difference is great between the two. The texture and atmosphere on this is so much better and the soundstage is clean and wide, easy to pick out the playing and really appreciate what Laswell and friends accomplished here.

5.0 out of 5 stars A great album made even better., January 26, 2012

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Phil (Eastern Mass, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Hear No Evil (Audio CD)

I bought the original version of this album when it first came out and it quickly became one of my favorite instrumental albums. World Music, Trance, New Age, Electronica....."Hear No Evil" is all these things but would be hard to classify as any one of them. Extremely listenable, it holds up well after hundreds of hours which I surely must have accumulated by now.

If you never checked it out before (or even if you have as I can attest), this is a great time to do so with this remaster. Not only does the original album sound better than ever, the second disc has a reimagining of two pieces that sound phenomenal accompanying the original album; neither too unlike the original tracks to sound jarring nor too similar to sound redundant.