COLLECTION
1/ Sittel Habayeb - (Wahab) 6.35
Simon Shaheen
2/ Cosmic Slop - (Clinton,Worrell) 5.15
Material
3/ Baba L'Rouami - (Public Domain) 3.05
Gnawa Music of Marrakesh
4/ Saut-e Sarmad - (Hellborg) 3.28
Jonas Hellborg
5/ Powerhouse (Edit) - (Suso) 4.56
Mandingo
6/ As We Used To Sing - (Sharrock) 7.45
Sonny Sharrock
7/ Nayo - (Traditional) 3.11
Fulani Music of the Gambia
8/ Under Black Skies - (Laswell,Skopelitis,Baker) 6.59
Ginger Baker
9/ Ragam,Tanam, Pallavi; Ragam : (Tala by Shankar) 5.20
Kapi; Seethalakshmi Talam : 6 3/4 Beats -
Shankar
10/ Elders (Edit) - (Jackson) 5.08
Ronald Shannon Jackson
11/ Hamaba - (Traditional) 4.40
Mandinka Music of the Gambia
12/ Ragam : Kapi (Edit) - (Shanker,Rao,Caroline,VL) 8.02
Shankar
Recorded at a variety of studios around New York and the World
Produced by Bill Laswell
Track 1 co-produced by Simon Shaheen
Track 3 co-produced by Richard Horowitz
Track 4 co-produced by Jonas Hellborg
Track 5,7 and 11 co-produced by Foday Musa Suso
Track 6 co-produced by Sonny Sharrock
Track 8 co-produced by Ginger Baker
Track 9 and 12 co-produced by Shankar and Caroline
Track 10 co-produced by Ronald Shannon Jackson
(1) Simon Shaheen : featured violin, oud; Ibrahim Salman : quanoun; Sheikh
Taha : accordion; Anton Hajjar : ney; Najib Shaheen : oud; Ramzi Bisharat :
tabla; Michel Baqlouq : daff (tambourine); Hanna Mirhige : mizhar (frame drum);
Bobby Farah : sagat (finger cymbals); Nessim Dakwar, Kamil Shajrawl, Artemis,
Theodos & Gabriel Palka : violins; Simon Shaheen : viola; Michael Richmond :
double bass; Michael Finkel & Vladimir Greenberg : cello; Paula Bing : flute;
Laura Shaheen, Nermine Rawi, Louise Salman, Youssef Kassab, Maurice
Chedid & Simon Shaheen : chorus; (2) Gary Shider : lead vocals, guitar;
Bootsy Collins : guitar; Gary "Mudbone" Cooper : vocals; Bernie Worrell :
Hammond B-3 organ; Michael Hampton : guitar; Aiyb Dieng : percussion;
Sly Dunbar : drums; Nicky Skopelitis : Fairlight; Robbie Shakespeare : bass;
Karl Berger : conductor - Material Strings; (3) Mustapha Baqbou : sintir, vocals;
Abdelhak Bou Naam : darbouka; Said Oughassal, Ahmed Hamzaoui &
Mahjoub El Khalmouss : vocals; (4) Jonas Hellborg : Wechter acoustic bass
guitar; Tony Williams : drums; SOLDIER STRING QUARTET - Laura Seaton :
1st violin; David Soldier & Ron Lawrence : violin; Mary Wooten : cello;
(5) Foday Musa Suso : kora, gravichord, talking drums, vocals; Bill Laswell :
bass; Jeff Bova : synthesizer; Nicky Skopelitis & Clive Smith : Fairlight
programming; (6) Sonny Sharrock : guitar; Pharoah Sanders : soprano
saxophone; Elvin Jones : drums; Charnett Moffett : bass; (7) Korreh Jallow :
nyanyer, voice; Amajou Bah : calabash; Amadou Jallow : lala; Ousman Jallow :
jimbeh; (8) Ginger Baker : drums; Aiyb Dieng : percussion; Jah Wobble, Bill
Laswell & Jonas Hellborg : bass; Nicky Skopelitis : 6 & 12 string guitars,
baglama, coral sitar, fairlight; Faruk Tekbilek : ney; Bernie Worrell : Hammond
B-3 organ; (9 & 12) Shankar : vocals, double-violin, kanjira; V.
Lakshminarayana : violin, double-violin; Caroline : vocals, tamboura, talam;
Ganam Rao : vocals; Zakir Hussain : tabla; Vikku Vinayakram : ghatam; Peter
Gabriel : keyboards; (10) Ronald Shannon Jackson : drums; Jeff Lee Johnson,
Stevie Salas & Jack DeSalvo : guitar; Ramon Pooser & Conrad Mathieu : bass;
(11) Surakata Suso, Karnnka Suso, Bolong Suso, Manjako Suso & Jewuru
Kanuteh : kora; Mahamadou Suso, Mawudo Suso & Salun Kuyateh : balafon;
Saiko Suso & Lamin Suso : batakonkon; Dembo Kanuteh & Mahamadou Suso :
dudungo; Bobo Suso & Mahame Camara : voice.
1991 - Axiom/Island (USA), 422-848 958-2 (CD)
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