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based music group Material. The album mixes jazz, dub,

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and Indian music. "Mantra" was issued as a 12" and CD single in 1993 (Axiom / Island, AXMCD1) featuring a 17-minute "Praying Mantra Mix" by The Orb, the album's "Doors of Perception Mix", and a 5-minute edit. A Tetsu Inoue mix of "Ruins" was included on the '' Axiom Ambient: Lost in the Translation'' album. "Eternal Drift" was issued as a 12" single in 1994 (Axiom / Island, PR12 6901-1) featuring the album version with re-mixes "Tribal Remix" by Kupper and Hacker, "Construct Over Destiny Mix" by Bill Laswell and "Eternal Thaemlitz Curse Mix" by Terre Thaemlitz. The last two mixes were included on the ''Axiom Ambient: Lost in the Translation'' album. William S. Burroughs reading of "Words of Advice for Young People" had appeared on his 1993 album ''Spare Ass Annie and other Tales (The Operator's Manual)''. "Cucumber Slumber" is a cover of the

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track from the 1974 album '' Mysterious Traveller''.

Track listing

#"Black Light" ( Bill Laswell, Wayne Shorter) – 7:33 #"Mantra" oors of Perception Mix(Laswell,

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, Caroline) – 8:44 #"Ruins" ubmutation Dub(Laswell) – 8:54 #"Eternal Drift" (Laswell, Nicky Skopelitis) – 7:35 #"Words of Advice" (Laswell, William S. Burroughs) – 3:58 #"Cucumber Slumber" luxus Mix(

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) – 7:30 #"The Hidden Garden" (Laswell, Simon Shaheen, Skopelitis) / " Naima" ( John Coltrane) – 13:00 #"Shadows of Paradise" (Laswell, L. Shankar, Skopelitis) – 9:45

Personnel

Material * Bill Laswell – basses, beats, loops, samples, etc. Additional personnel * Wayne Shorter – soprano and tenor saxophones * William S. Burroughs – voice ("Words of Advice") *

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– voice ("Eternal Drift") * Simon Shaheen – violin and oud * Nicky Skopelitis – acoustic and electric 6- and 12- string guitars, coral electric sitar, baglama and Fairlight CMI * Bernie Worrell – electric piano, Hammond B-3 organ *

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– space bass *

– electric violin *

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– drum kit * Jeff Bova – synthesizers * Jihad Racy – ney * Jonas Hellborg – acoustic bass guitar and fretless electric bass *

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– tabla * Trilok Gurtu – tabla *

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– ghatam * Fahim Dandan – voice ("The Hidden Garden") * George Basil – qanoun * Michael Baklouk – daff, tambourine *

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– chatan, congas, percussion * AHallucination

Production

* Recorded at Greenpoint Studio, BC Studio/Gowanus, Platinum Island Studio and Krypton Studio (New York) and Media Arts (Madras, India) * Produced and arranged by Bill Laswell. * Engineers

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, Oz Fritz and Martin Bisi * Mixed by Robert Musso at Greenpoint Studio * Cover by James Koehnline

Release history

* 1994 – Axiom/Island/PolyGram 518 351 * 1994 – Axiom/BMG, 74321-18190

References

External links

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