Seven Souls [Import]

Material | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Triloka Records
• ASIN: B00004799X
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #658,489 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Western Lands (Dangerous Road Mix)

2. Seven Souls (Tim Simenon Mix)

3. Soul Killer (Remote Control Mix)

4. Ineffect

5. Seven Souls

6. Soul Killer

7. Western Lands

8. Deliver

9. Equation

10. End of Words

Customer Reviews

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Essential Laswell, July 14, 2000

By 

Andrew M. Schirmer "violist/student" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seven Souls (Audio CD)

Bill Laswell's necrophiliac obsession continues with this funky-tribal release. Take NYC funk, dust it up with crusty 'ol William S. Burroughs (reading from his "The Road to the Western Lands"), and you've got "Seven Souls." Laswell's New Age landscapes are punctuated with the voice of death himself (that ol' raspberry seed in America's teeth!) telling us that "Bah" will lead us to destruction if we follow it. Only Laswell would do something this crazy. But it really holds up. The first track works as kind of a hip-hop-New Age thing...it's the most accessible track, and probably my favourite. Seven Souls" is excellent, and quite funky (if I were to break it out at a literary-type party the floor would be littered with bodies). Everything else is good, excepting a few mixes of "Seven Souls." If you liked Burroughs' collaboration with Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprosy ("Spare A** Annie"), you should enjoy this. Be warned, though: they're not in the same vein. Burroughs is more cut up and dubbed over, turned down and tripped out--his voice provides more of a tone than a message for the songs, a vehicle for Laswell and his current obsession.