Material - Hallucination Engine (1994) {Axiom/Island} **[RE-UP]**

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Date: May 24, 2021

Material - Hallucination Engine (1994) {Axiom/Island}
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MP3 CBR 320kbps | RAR | 168 mb
Genre: electronic, acid jazz, dub

Hallucination Engine is the 1994 album by Material. Produced by Bill Laswell, it featured help from William S. Burroughs, William "Bootsy" Collins, and Zakir Hussain. It was an Axiom/Island release.
By the mid-'90s, Material was simply another word for Bill Laswell, so as Laswell's fascination with ambient mysticism grew, so did Material's tendencies in that direction. After 1991's dark and reggae-inflected The Third Power, Hallucination Engine's long, spacy jams aren't exactly a dramatic departure, but the combination of Wayne Shorter and various North African elements is certainly interesting. In fact, the array of guest musicians is more diverse than ever: Trilok Gurtu, Jonas Hellborg, Zakir Hussain, Bootsy Collins – the list goes on and on and even includes William Burroughs (who intones a hilarious list of "Words of Advice" over a churning mid-tempo funk groove). In his ambient mode, Laswell has been accused of turning too little music into too much track length, and there's some justice to those criticisms; here, "Black Light" and the unbelievably well-named "Eternal Drift" both plod along for far too long with far too little development. But that William Burroughs track kicks in just as you're about to fall asleep, and it's followed immediately by a very funky and very jazzy remix of "Cucumber Slumber." "The Hidden Garden/Naima" proposes an interesting juxtaposition of Arabic pop song and modal jazz, with dramatic and beautiful results, while "Shadows of Paradise" brings the album to a close with a gentle whimper, not a bang.


1. Black Light
2. Mantra
3. Ruins (Submutation Dub)
4. Eternal Drift
5. Words Of Advice
6. Cucumber Slumber (Fluxus Mix)
7. The Hidden Garden/Naima
8. Shadows Of Paradise
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Bill Laswell-basses, beats, loops, samples, etc.

Wayne Shorter-soprano and tenor saxophones
Williams S. Burroughs-voice
Liu Sola-voice
Simon Shaheen-violin and oud
Nicky Skopelitis-acoustic and electric six and twelve-string guitars, coral electric sitar, baglama, and Fairlight
Bernie Worrell-electric piano, Hammond B-3 organ
Bootsy Collins-Space bass
Shankar-electric violin
Sly Dunbar-drum kit
Jeff Bova-synthesizers
Jihad Racy-ney
Jonas Hellborg-acoustic bass guitar and fretless electric bass
Zakir Hussain-tabla
Trilok Gurtu-tabla
Vikku Vinayakram-ghatam
Fahim Dandan-voice
George Bash-qanoun
Michael Baklouk-daff and tambourine
Aiyb Dieng-chatan, congas, percussion

Produced and arranged by Bill Laswell
Recorded at Greenpoint Studios, Brooklyn; B.C. Studio, Brooklyn; Platinum Island, NYC; Krypton Studio, NYC; Media Arts, Madras, India
Engineering: Robert Musso, Oz Fritz, Martin Bisi
Mixed at Greenpoint Studios, Brooklyn
Engineer: Robert Musso
"Mantra" engineered by Oz Fritz
Assistant: Imad Mansour

Mastered at Masterdisk by Howie Weinberg

EAC extraction logfile from 20. November 2006, 8:45 for CD
Material / Hallucination Engine

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