Sold Date: May 22, 2021
Start Date: May 5, 2021
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TODAY, I'M SELLING SOME OF MY MATERIAL/BILL LASWELL/LAST EXIT COLLECTION! THE VINYL HAS BEEN ON MY SHELF FOR DECADES! Read The Details Below... IMPORTANT NOTE: I haven't had a turntable since last century, so this sale needs to be considered "as is," but I will describe everything the best I can (please check my feedback). These albums were rarely played, and I would be surprised if most of these had any substantial turntable time (except Massacre, which I played a lot). I'm not a "record seller," and I don't know "grading," so you're stuck with my descriptions. If you're not happy after the sale, just contact me. I don't give PARTIAL refunds, but I WILL make sure you're satisfied.
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BILL LASWELL LPS Bill Laswell Baselines LP (1983 Elektra/Musician 60221) - 1st Pressing/WHITE LABEL PROMO Bill Laswell & Peter Brotzmann Low Life LP (1987 Celluloid CELL 5016)
MATERIAL LPS Bill Laswell, Michael Beinhorn & Fred Maher Material Temporary Music 8-Song EP/LP (1981 Red Records/Base Record RS 12000) - ITALIAN IMPORT Material Ciquri/Detached 12" 45 RPM Single (1981 Red Records/Base Record EP-1312) - ITALIAN IMPORT Material Red Tracks LP (1985 Red Records/Performance PER 0382) - HOLLAND IMPORT
MASSACRE LP Bill Laswell, Fred Frith & Fred Maher Massacre Killing Time LP (1983 Celluloid CELL 5003) - FIRST PRESSING
LAST EXIT LPS Bill Laswell, Sonny Sharrock, Ronald Shannon Jackson & Peter Brotzmann Last Exit The Noise Of Trouble (Live In Tokyo) LP (1986 Enemy 88561-8178-1) - PROMO - TRANSLUCENT VINYL Last Exit Last Exit LP (1987 Enemy 88561-8176-1) - PROMO - TRANSLUCENT VINYL Last Exit Iron Path LP (1988 Virgin 7 91015-1) - PROMO - FACTORY SEALED  
plus... ARCANA CDs Derek Bailey, Bill Laswell & Tony Williams Arcana The Last Wave CD (1996 DIW DIW-903) - JAPANESE IMPORT Bill Laswell, Tony Williams, Pharaoh Sanders, Buckethead, Nicky Skopelitis & others Arcana Arc Of The Testimony CD (1997 Axiom/Island 314-524 431-2)
Bill Laswell w/ Nicky Skopelitis & others Bill Laswell APC Tracks Vol. 1 CD (1996 A.P.C. 003) - FRENCH IMPORT
Bill Laswell w/ Lori Carson, Hakim Bey, Coil, Trilok Gurtu & others Bill Laswell City Of Light CD (1997 Sub Rosa SR114) - BELGIUM IMPORT


LAST EXIT
Last Exit (LP, 1986) Enemy Records 88561-8176-1 Rare Dark Translucent Vinyl, Hole Punch PROMO (See Pics)
OUTSTANDING! 1st PRESS PROMO. The cover has no important Issues except a VERY minor bent corner in the upper right front. No rings. The vinyl DOES have some random marks on both sides. Not sure how, I KNOW that this LP didn't get much airplay. But... if they turn out to be an issue on playback, just let me know and you'll be refunded. Some may be alleviated by a deep cleaning. Others are inexplicable markings. Check out the dark translucent vinyl (picture has a back light so you can see through it.). Has a promo hole punch on the upper left corner (it's through the bar code on the back side). Pics are the actual item you're buying. 4-1/2 STARS from the All Music Guide, which calls Last Exit, "one of the very finest albums of the '80s." and "Last Exit ranks as a pinnacle both in Laswell's career and in the rock/free improv genre it spawned. A classic release, one that should be in the collection of anyone interested in either contemporary free improvisation or the more creative branches of rock."
An Experimental Super-Group with Bill Laswell, Sonny Sharrock, Ronald Shannon Jackson and Peter Brotzmann

SIDE A Discharge Backwater Catch As Catch Can Red Light
SIDE B Enemy Within Crackin Pig Freedom Voice Of A Skin Hanger Zulu Butter

6 String Bass – Bill Laswell Drums –  Ronald Shannon Jackson Guitar  – Sonny Sharrock Sax - Peter Brotzmann
Mixed By – Robert Musso
Recorded in Paris, Feb 16, 1986
PARTIAL ALL MUSIC GUIDE 4-1/2 Star REVIEW In the mid-'80s, Bill Laswell had a great idea. Why not combine rock's raging rhythms and volume with free improvisation's unfettered creativity and ferocity? To this end, he made three inspired choices to fill out his band. Drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson was a veteran of Ornette Coleman's Prime Time ensemble as well as a past member of Cecil Taylor's volcanic mid-'70s bands. Sonny Sharrock had burst onto the scene in the late '60s with Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry, and others, establishing a unique approach to free electric guitar playing, only to retreat from the scene before being lured out of retirement by Laswell. The wild card was German saxophone behemoth Peter Brötzmann, known for his classic, shatteringly intense album Machine Gun from 1968 as well as multitudes of subsequent recordings where a premium was placed on visceral, gut-wrenching interplay among musicians. Mix these elements together and Laswell (with his own funky, dub-heavy electric bass anchoring the proceedings) had an incendiary formula, one that perhaps couldn't hold together long but, while it did, it produced some amazingly powerful music. Never was this more in evidence than on this first, self-titled release, one of the very finest albums of the '80s. Entirely improvised, Last Exit nonetheless based most of its pieces on blues forms, even if highly abstracted. This bedrock allowed the musicians, particularly Brötzmann and Sharrock (whose early death in 1994 would cancel any possibility, however tenuous at that point, of the group's continuation) to freely explore the outer boundaries of their instruments, sublimely soaring over the down to earth and dirty rhythm team of Laswell and Jackson. This tension, strongly shown on the first four tracks here, reached almost unbearable degrees; its release when they would slide back into a groove leaves the listener utterly drained. Subsequent albums would come close to attaining this level of intensity and creativity, but Last Exit ranks as a pinnacle both in Laswell's career and in the rock/free improv genre it spawned. A classic release, one that should be in the collection of anyone interested in either contemporary free improvisation or the more creative branches of rock.



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