COLLECTION
AXIOM COLLECTION: ILLUMINATIONS
This album contains tracks from the first ten Axiom releases.
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)