Perhaps his most remarkable adventure around this time occurred when he made his way from Albion to Rhode Island for the Newport Jazz Festival to see Tony Williams' Lifetime, photos of which he keeps to this day. Sometimes his mission was just to see what existed beyond his home town but more often he was out to raid record shops or absorb live musicas a kid he was already deep into the titans of free jazz and fusion as well as blues, r&b and rock. Barely a teenager Laswell began striking out on adventures of his own, riding the bus or hitchhiking to Ann Arbor, Detroit, Chicago, Toronto and Montreal. A man in constant motion, his earliest years were spent on the road with his parents, moving frequently throughout the mid-west, eventually settling in Albion, Michigan when he was six. A traveler from the time he was born, Bill Laswell's discography reads like a series of postcards from around the planet. His willingness to take risks is unparalleled in the world of music-as is his ability to unite seemingly disparate voices. A short list includes Herbie Hancock, Laurie Anderson, Tony Williams, Mick Jagger, Sting, Carlos Santana, John Zorn, the Dalai Lama, Pharoah Sanders, Yoko Ono, John Lydon, Bootsy Collins, Buckethead, Brain, Bernie Worrell, Karsh Kale, Afrika Bambaataa, The Last Poets, Zakir Hussein, Shankar, Ustad Sultan Khan, Sonny Sharrock, Toshinori Kondo, Nona Hendryx, George Clinton, Whitney Houston, Bachir Attar, the Jungle Brothers, William Burroughs, Paul Bowles, Sly & Robbie and dozens more from the Americas, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East and Japan. The DVD comes with loads of extra features, dub mixes and more.Since the late '70s, Laswell has relentlessly pursued the future with a stunning range of musicians and thinkers. Directed by Bruno Natal over a three year period, this is a killer film to be watched over and over again! covering Dub in all its different guises. 'Dub Echoes' is a newly produced film about Dub, featuring an incredible array of artists, both original Jamaican artists - U Roy, King Jammy, Lee Perry, Sly Dunbar, Bunny Lee (to name a few), alongside a similarly awe-inspiring array of artists who have been taken Dub into new directions in electronic dance music - Kode9, Roots Manuva, Howie B, Adrian Sherwood and many more.
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