BILL LASWELL DISCOGRAPHY 1979-1981

1979

DAEVID ALLEN (WITH NEW YORK GONG) - Much Too Old/I Am A Freud
1979 - Charly CYS 1056 (LP)

MATERIAL -Temporary Music 1
1) O.A.O; 2) On Sadism; 3) White Man; 4) Process/Motion
Cliff Cultreri; Michael Beinhorn; Bill Laswell; Fred Maher; Don Davis: sax (3) Produced by Giorgio Gomelsky.
1979 - Red Records RS 12.006 (LP)

1980

VARIOUS ARTISTS: Dance Ze Dance
1) Material with Nona Hendryx
Produced by Material.
1980 (?) - Ze Records (LP)

MATERIAL - Discourse/Slow Murder
Bill Laswell: bass; Michael Beinhorn: synth, vocals; Cliff Cultreri: guitar; Bill Bacon - drums
Produced by Material with Martin Bisi.
1980 - Red 45001 (LP)

1981

MATERIAL -Memory Serves
1) Memory Serves; 2) Disappearing; 3) Upriver; 4) Metal Test; 5) Conform To The Rhythm; 6) Unauthorized; 7) Square Dance; 8) Silent Land; 9) For a Few Dollars More (MauMau release only)
Sonny Sharrock: guitar (1,2,3,4,5,6); Fred Frith: guitar, violin, xylophone (1,4,5,7); Henry Threadgill: Alto sax (2,6,7); George Lewis: trombone (1,7,8); Olu Dara: cornet (2,3); Billy Bang: violin (3,6); Charles K. Noyes: drums, percussion, bells (1,8); Fred Maher: drums, percussion, guitar (1,2,3,4,5,6,7); Bill Laswell: 4, 6 and 8 string basses; Michael Beinhorn: synthesizers, tapes, radio, guitar, drums, voice
Produced by Material with Martin Bisi
1981 - Celluloid/Vogue, 529812 (LP)
1982 - Musician/Elektra, EI 60042 (LP)
19?? - Celluloid, CELCD 5508 (CD)
1992 - Metronome/Restless, 7 72653-2 (CD)
1992 - MauMau , MAUCD 623 (CD)

FRED FRITH - Speechless
1) Kick The Can (part 1); 2) Carnival On Wall Street; 3) Ahead In The Sand; 4) Laughing Matter/Esperanza; 5) Women Speak To Men; Men Speak To Women; 6) A Spit In The Ocean; 7) Navajo; 8) Balance; 9); Saving Grace: 10) Speechless; 11) Conversations With White Arc; 12) Domaine De Planousset; 13) Kick The Can (part 2); 14) The Entire Works Of Henry Cow; 15) So Schnell Ich; 16) I'm Still Here And I Know What Time It Is; 17) No More War; 18) Typical American Family; 19) Dig
Fred Frith: guitar, violin, mellotron, bass, organ, voice; Guigou Chenevier (1,2,3,4,5,6): drums, tenor, voice; Margot Mathieu (1,2,3,4,5,6): soprano, tenor, voice; Ferdinand Richard (1,2,3,4,5,6): bass, guimbarde, voice; Jo Thirion (1,2,3, 4,5,6): organ, harmonium; Bill Laswell (7,8,9,10,11,12,13): bass; Fred Maher (7,8, 9,10,11,12,13): drums; Steve Buchanan (8): snake sax; George Cartwright (7,8,9,10, 11,12,13): alto; Tina Curran (8,12): recorders, bass; Mars Williams: baritone sax.
1981 - Ralph (FF 8106 (LP) (1 - 13 only)
???? - T.E.C. Tones FF-???? (LP) (1 - 13 only)
1991 - Recommended ReCDec 902 (CD)
???? - East Side Digital (CD)

KIP HANRAHAN - Coupe de Tete, American Clave
1) Whatever I Want; 2) At The Moment Of The Serve; 3) This Night Comes Out Of Both Of Us; 5) A Lover Divides Time (To Hear How It Sounds); 6) No One Gets To Transcend Anything (No One Except Oil Company Executives); 7) Shadow To Shadow; 8) Sketch from Two Cubas
Daniel Ponce: iya, congas, chekere (1,2,3,5,7); Jerry Gonzales: congas, itotole, quinto; Nicky Marrero: bongos, okonkolo (1,3); Anton Fier: trap drums; Kip Hanrahan: percussion, voice, quinto, string synthesizer (1,2,3,6,8); Chico Freeman: tenor (1,2); Bill Laswell: bass (1,3,7); Arto Lindsay: guitar; Byard Lancaster: tenor, flute, wooden flute (1,3); George Cartwright: alto, flute, piccolo (1,3); Ignacio Berroa: trap drums (2,5,6); Jamaaladeen Tacuma: bass (2,5,6); George Naha: guitar (2,3); Carlos Ward: alto (2,7); Lisa Herman: voice (3,5,7); Angel Perez: congas (6); Gene Golden: chekere, congas (6,8); John Stubblefield: tenor (6); Bern Nix: electric guitar (6); Dom Um Romao: surdo grande, agogo (7); Fred Frith: guitar (7); Carlos Mestre: congas (8); Michael Mantler: trumpet (8).
1981 - American Clave, AMCL 1007 (LP)

DAEVID ALLEN (WITH NEW YORK GONG) - About Time
1) Preface; 2) Much Too Old; 3) Black September; 4) Materialism; 5) Strong Woman; 6) I Am a Freud; 7) O My Photograph; 8) Jungle Windo(w); 9) Hours Gone
Fred Maher: drums; Bill Laswelll: bass; Michael Beinhorn: synth; Cliff Cultreri: guitar; Bill Bacon: drums; Gary Windo: tenor sax; Don Davis: alto sax; Daevid Allen: rhythm guitar, glissando guitar, vocals
1981 - Oxford 3228 (LP)

MATERIAL - Temporary Music 2
1) Reduction; 2) Hermatige; 3) Secret Life; 4) Dark Things
Fred Maher; Michael Beinhorn; Bill Laswell
Produced by Material and Martin Bisi.
1981 - Red RS 12.008

MATERIAL - It's a Holiday/Cristina: Things Fall Apart
1981 - ZE/ISLAND IPR 2052

MATERIAL - Reduction/A.O.A.
1981 Base/Red RS 1212

MATERIAL - American Songs
1)Ciqurii; 2)Detached; 3) Discourse; 4) Slow Murder
Robert Quine: guitar; Bill Laswell: bass; Michael Beinhorn: synth, vocals; Fred Maher: drums, guitar, vocals
Produced by Material with Martin Bisi.
1981 Red EP 001

ENO AND DAVID BYRNE - MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS
1981 - Sire


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