BERNIE WORRELL

BOOK OF WOO VOL. 1: BILL LASWELL MIX TAPE

In memory of Bernie Worrell
(April 19, 1944 - June 24, 2016)
Never forget.

  1/  Alabama                                    (Coltrane)                    5.37
        Bernie Worrell
  2/  Blood Secrets                              (Worrell)                     6.50
        Bernie Worrell
  3/  At Mos'Spheres                             (Worrell)                     3.55
        Bernie Worrell
  4/  Volunteered Slavery/Bern's Blues/          (Kirk/Worrell/Sun Ra)         4.45
             Outer Spaceways
        Bernie Worrell
  5/  Woo Doo                                    (Laswell,Worrell)             4.08
        Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell & Karsh Kale
  6/  By a River (for Peter)                     (Laswell,Worrell)             7.52
        Bill Laswell & Bernie Worrell
  7/  X-Factor                                   (Worrell,Parker)              11.53
        Bernie Worrell
  8/  In a Silent Way                            (Zawinul)                     5.41
        Massacre
  9/  Flashlight-Redux                           (Worrell,Clinton,Collins)     3.51
        Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell & Karsh Kale
  10/ Revelation In Blacklight                   (Worrell)                     2.21
        Bernie Worrell
  11/ Flex                                       (BW,BL,Sumbi,Small,Clinton)   6.04
        Bernie Worrell
  12/ Outer Woo                                  (Laswell,Worrell)             5.27
        Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell & Karsh Kale
  13/ I'd Rather Be With You                     (Clinton,Collins,Cooper)      4.21
        Bernie Worrell
  14/ Black and Strong (Homesick)                (UBH,MM,BL,BC,Clinton,AO)     11.29
        The Last Poets

          Compiled by Bill Laswell for Sean Westergaard (WCBN)
          Artwork by Yoko Yamabe @ Randesign
see the various releases for individual track credits.

- Tracks 1,8 and 13 taken from Bernie Worrell's "Elevation: The Upper Air"
- Tracks 2,7,10 and 11 taken from Bernie Worrell's "Blacktronic Science"
- Tracks 3 and 4 taken from Bernie Worrell's "Funk of Ages"
- Tracks 5,9 and 12 taken from Laswell/Worrell/Kale's "Funkcronomic"
- Track 6 taken from "Die Welt Ist Klang: A Tribute To Pete Namlook"
- Track 14 taken from The Last Poet's "Holy Terror"<9>

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