This is an interview with Miriam Linna and Billy Miller of the fabulous Norton Records . Hasil, rhymes with Basil - and that's also his brother's name. He totally blew our minds when we first heard him. Then when you meet him, you realize he's the genuine article. He started sending us tapes which mixed up old and new record - you couldn't tell which was which.
People are hungry for that kind of emotion.
He was the youngest of 9 or 10 children and was born long after his nearest sibling. He grew up with his mom and lived with her until she died in 1985 - that really destroyed him because he loved her so much. He had lived his entire life, including his adult life, in this house where he also did all his recording. When his mom died, that sent him into this intense dimension of blueness. The ceiling fan was whirling around, making a creaky sound, and without missing a lick he reached down, pulled out a gun and shot it down - it was interfering with the song.