Discography

Bill Laswell as Player

Bill Laswell is known and respected as a bass player as well. Versed in many different styles, he's lent his playing to numerous projects over the years. Some were his own, some were on outside productions and some as player for hire. In addition though, he's also played a variety of other instruments over time. As with the "Bill Laswell as (Re)Mixer" section, oftentimes there are no notes as to what Bill contributed - particularly on his own productions. I've done my best to note what it's clear he's done from the liner notes as well as what may be implied from the type of album he appears on. Anywhere that has no note next to a release is a release that he ONLY plays bass on. Releases where he contributes as a multi-instrumentalist will note all the instruments credited, including bass, as some albums (though a bass player by trade) he doesn't play the instrument on. Additionally, because of the vastness of this discography and the fact it's been an ongoing process since 1997-ish, some albums I credited him as playing certain parts even though they are not noted in the liners (particularly the use of the vague term "sounds"). While I haven't done that recently, some of those will appear in this list just from the inability to currently go back and check every release at this time.

 

ABYSSINIA INFINITE featuring GiGi

ACTIVITIES OF DUST

AHLAM

AISHA KANDISHA'S JARRING EFFECTS

DAEVID ALLEN

ALMAMEGRETTA

ALTERED BEATS

LAURIE ANDERSON

ANIMATION

APC

ARCANA

ASANA

ASHES

ASTRAL NIGHT ROLLERS

AUDIO LETTER

AUTOMATON

AUTONOMOUS ZONE

ENZO AVITABILE & BOTTARI

AXIOM AMBIENT

AXIOM DUB

AXIOM FUNK

AZZDDINE

GINGER BAKER

GINGER BAKER BAND

AFRIKA BAMBAATAA (& FAMILY)

THE BEATNICKS

BEATUNDERCONTROL

STEVE BERNSTEIN'S MILLENNIAL TERRITORY ORCHESTRA

SIMON BERZ, TOSHINORI KONDO & BILL LASWELL

HAKIM BEY

  • T.A.Z. (bass, beats, samples, treatments, sound collage)

MARTIN BISI

MICHAEL BLAISE and CHEATER

BLIND LIGHT

THE BLOOD OF HEROES

BLUE BUDDHA

LILI BONICHE

PAUL BOWLES

B-SIDE

BUCK JAM TONIC

BUCKETHEAD

WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS & BILL LASWELL

LORI CARSON

CHAKRA

CHAOS FACE

CHARGED

DORIAN CHEAH

SAMUEL CLAIBORNE

GEORGE CLINTON

COLLECTIONS

BOOTSY COLLINS

CRAZY WISDOM MASTERS

CROOKLYN DUB

CURLEW

CYPHER 7

DARK MATTER HALO

EMIL DE WAAL+SPEJDERROBOT

DEADLINE

DEATH CUBE K

SUSSAN DEYHIM

MANU DIBANGO

AIYB DIENG

DIVINATION

TOMAS DONCKER

DAVE DOUGLAS

D.RaD

DROP ZONE

D.ST.

D.ST. & JALALUDDIN M. NURIDDIN

DUBADELIC

DUB SYNDICATE

EKSTASIS

ELIXIR

EBN

BRIAN ENO

BRIAN ENO/DAVID BYRNE

THE EPIDEMICS

EQUATIONS OF ETERNITY

FAB5FREDDY

FADELA & SAHRAWI

BORIS FEOKTISTOV

ANTON FIER

FLYING MIJINKO BAND

RANDY FREDRIX

FREEFORM

KATHY FRESTON/JANET RIENSTRA/BILL LASWELL

FRED FRITH

PETER GABRIEL

  • So (1 track)

GAUDI

GETTOVETTS

GIGI

GIGI w/ MATERIAL

THE GOLDEN PALOMINOS

GOMA

GONERVILL

PETER GORDON & THE LOVE OF LIFE ORCHESTRA

AKIKO GRACE

ENZO GRAGNANIELLO

ALEX HAAS

ALEX HAAS & BILL LASWELL

HERBIE HANCOCK

HERBIE HANCOCK & BILL LASWELL

KIP HANRAHAN

HASHISHEEN

UMAR BIN HASSAN

GARRISON HAWK

LILI HAYDN

NONA HENDRYX

JEFFRY HILL

HIM

HARUOMI HOSONO

PERCY HOWARD

PERCY HOWARD'S MERIDIEM

HOWARD/LASWELL/FRITH/HAYWARD

HU: VIBRATIONAL

ICEHOUSE

MICK JAGGER

JALI KUNDA

JAZZONIA

NIELS & THE NY STREET PERCUSSIONISTS

NIELS JENSEN & JONAS HELLBORG

JIVAMUKTI YOGA CENTER

JUNGLE BROS.

KAI

HENRY KAISER/SIMON BARKER/BILL LASWELL/RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA

KARSH KALE

KANKAWA 122

KASBAH ROCKERS

USTAD SULTAN KHAN

MASABUMI KIKUCHI

KODO

MAKIGAMI KOICHI

TOSHINORI KONDO (& IMA)

TOSHINORI KONDO/ERALDO BERNOCCHI/BILL LASWELL (see also CHARGED)

TOSHINORI KONDO/BILL LASWELL/DALAI LAMA

JILL KROESAN

SERGEY KURYOKHIN

LAST EXIT

THE LAST POETS

BILL LASWELL

BILL LASWELL/RAOUL BJORKENHEIM/MORGAN AGREN

BILL LASWELL/PETER BROTZMANN

BILL LASWELL & NICHOLAS JAMES BULLEN

BILL LASWELL & IRA COHEN

BILL LASWELL/BOOTSY COLLINS/ROBBIE SHAKESPEARE/JAH WOBBLE/GABE KATZ

BILL LASWELL + FANU

BILL LASWELL & MAALEM MOKHTAR GANIA

BILL LASWELL/MJ HARRIS

BILL LASWELL/HARUOMI HOSONO

BILL LASWELL/TETSU INOUE

BILL LASWELL/TETSU INOUE/ATOM HEART

BILL LASWELL/HOPPY KAMIYAMA

BILL LASWELL & DJ KRUSH

BILL LASWELL/IKUE MORI/EVAN PARKER/MARK NAUSEEF

BILL LASWELL/ROBERT MUSSO/LANCE CARTER

BILL LASWELL/TATSUYA NAKAMURA/HIDEO YAMAKI

BILL LASWELL/PETE NAMLOOK

BILL LASWELL/MARK NAUSEEF/KUDSI ERGUNER/MARKUS STOCKHAUSEN

BILL LASWELL & BARTON RAGE

BILL LASWELL, ELLIOTT SHARP & M.E. MILLER

BILL LASWELL/JONAH SHARP

LASWELL/SHARROCK/ZORN/FRITH/BAILEY/NOYES

BILL LASWELL & MASAHIRO SHIMBA

BILL LASWELL MEETS STYLE SCOTT

BILL LASWELL VS. SUBMERGED

BILL LASWELL VS. SUBMERGED/FRACTURE VS. NEPTUNE

BILL LASWELL/TERRE THAEMLITZ

BILL LASWELL/JAH WOBBLE

BILL LASWELL/BERNIE WORRELL/KARSH KALE

BILL LASWELL & HIDEO YAMAKI

BILL LASWELL & HIDEO YAMAKI W/ JOSH WERNER

BILL LASWELL/HIDEO YAMAKI/DOMINIC JAMES/RAOUL BJORKENHEIM/MIKE SOPKO

BILL LASWELL/YOSUKE YAMASHITA

BILL LASWELL/OTOMO YOSHIHIDE/YOSHIDA TATSUYA

BILL LASWELL/OTOMO YOSHIHIDE/YOSHIGAKI YASUHIRO (A/K/A SOUP)

  • Soup (bass, effects, samples)
  • Soup Live (bass, effects, samples)

LASWELL/ZORN/DOUGLAS/PATTON/BURGER/PEROWSKY

BILL LASWELL & JOHN ZORN

LEF

F. ROBERT LLOYD

LOUD APARTMENT

LOVE OF LIFE ORCHESTRA

ENRICO MACAIS

LAUREL MACDONALD

MAD WORLD MUSIC

MAGHREBIKA

MAKYO

MANDINGO

MARLA MASE

MASSACRE

MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA w/ MATERIAL

MASTERS OF NONE

MATERIAL

MATERIAL/CRISTINA

MEDESKI, MARTIN AND WOOD

MELTABLE SNAPS IT

THE MEN X PERIENCE (MENACE)

MENACE

MERIDIEM

METHOD OF DEFIANCE

MONDAY MICHIRU

ROBERT MILES

RUSSELL MILLS

MOEBIUS

NILS PETTER MOLVAER

NIA MONET

MONSTER MAGNET

MOOKO

DAVID MOSS

MUMPBEAK

ROBERT MUSSO

PETE NAMLOOK/KLAUS SCHULZE

MARK NAUSEEF

NEVARIS

NEW YORK GONG

NINE INCH NAILS

O RAPPA

PJ OLSSON

THE OPENING PERFORMANCE ORCHESTRA/IGGY POP/BILL LASWELL

OPERAZONE

ABIODUN OYEWOLE

PAINKILLER

LEE 'SCRATCH' PERRY

LUCKY PETERSON

PHANTOM CITY

PHASE II

DANIEL PONCE

VALENTINA PONOMAREVA

POSSESSION+AFRICAN DUB

PRAXIS

PROFESSOR SHEHAB & ROBERT MUSSO

PUBLIC IMAGE LTD.

PURPLE TRAP

QABALLAH STEPPERS

RAF

BARTON RAGE

RAIZ

RASA

REANIMATOR

RINKEN BAND

KRISTO RODZEVSKI

RYUKYU UNDERGROUND

DJ CHEB I SABBAH

RYUICHI SAKAMOTO

AKIRA SAKATA

SAMSARA SOUND SYSTEM

SAMULNORI

SAM J SAMTAR & THE KASBAH ROCKERS

PHAROAH SANDERS/GRAHAM HAYNES

SAPHO

SATORI

GENJI SAWAI

  • Sawaka (bass, turntables, yamaha dx-7)

JULIAN SCHNABEL

PAUL SCHUTZE + PHANTOM CITY

SCIENCE SLAM SONIC EXPLORERS

SCORN

GIL SCOTT-HERON

SERART

SHANGO

ELLIOTT SHARP

SONNY SHARROCK

SHIN.E

SHINE

SIGILLUM S

TALVIN SINGH

  • OK (1 track)

NICKY SKOPELITIS

NICKY SKOPELITIS & RAOUL BJORKENHEIM

SLY & ROBBIE

WADADA LEO SMITH

WADADA LEO SMITH w/ MILFORD GRAVES & BILL LASWELL

WADADA LEO SMITH & ORANGE WAVE ELECTRIC

(JAH WOBBLE'S) SOLARIS

SOMMA

SONAR

SOON E MC

MIKE SOPKO, BILL LASWELL & THOMAS PRIDGEN

MIKE SOPKO, BILL LASWELL & TYSHAWN SOREY

SOUND TRIBE SECTOR 9

SOUNDTRACKS

SPIRITUAL BEAUTY

THE STALIN

STING

SUBMERGED

SWANS

SXL

TABLA BEAT SCIENCE

SHIN TERAI

  • Unison (bass, synthesizer, effects)

TETRAGRAMATON

  • Submerge (2 tracks - bass, beats, samples, sounds)

THIRD RAIL

TIME ZONE

PER TJERNBERG & ARCHIMEDES BADKAR REFILL

TOKYO MEETING

DAVID TOOP

JEAN TOUITOU

TOY KILLERS

TRANSONIC

TRAWL

TRIBE 2

U.M.A. (Ubiquitous Musicians Association)

JAMES 'BLOOD' ULMER

JAI UTTAL (& THE PAGAN LOVE ORCHESTRA)

  • Thunder Love (2 tracks - additional bass, bass interludes, percussion)

VALIS

TOM VERLAINE

VIDA BLUE

VODU 155

LENNY WHITE

JAH WOBBLE (see also SOLARIS)

  • Deep Space (1 track - fretless bass, loops, atmospheres, treatments)

BERNIE WORRELL

HIDEO YAMAKI

YELLOWMAN

YEMEN BLUES

YLA-MAGO

MINAKO YOSHIDA

YULDUZ

HECTOR ZAZOU

ZILLATRON

ZOOPADELICA

JOHN ZORN