Stephen's attentive ears and expressive thoughts are appreciated by many, and I'm glad to offer this forum to my e-friend. A beguiling and suggestively titled disc by Koji Asano , born in Japan, residing in Barcelona and the author of a baker s dozen of CDs on his own label. Six unnamed tracks amounting to 67 minutes of Asano soloing on acoustic piano. Solstice has its own website . For the teeny tiny noises crowd, three tracks by this debutant.
Water sounds transform into more white noise.
No Evil Bill Laswell led a tight ensemble of Eastern and Western musician through a half-dozen bluesy fusion pieces. The players trade off one another with consummate skill and sensitivity and the result is a minor monument to a very special type of World Music with its feet firmly planted in the American soil. Exquisitely repackaged by Russell Mills for Meta , this re-release features a bonus CD slightly longer than the original featuring long ambient remixes of the first and last tracks. Transforming them into elegant, elongated ragas, Laswell brings the tabla to the fore, and adds further colouration via incursions by the Material Strings , led by Karl Berger . A patent Laswell ambient mix translation entirely in the spirit of the original.