If Memory Serves…

I’ve never posted this Bill Laswell Material before this.

Material – Memory Serves, Island Records ILPS9693, 1981.
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Side One –

Memory Serves

Disappearing

Upriver

Metal Test

Side Two –

Conform to the Rhythm

Unauthorized

Square Dance

Silent Land

Material witnesses here are: Bill Laswell – 4, 6 & 8 string basses; Michael Beinhorn – synthesizers, tapes, radio, guitar, drums, & voice with Fred Maher – drums, percussion, & guitar (except "Silent Land"); Sonny Sharrock – guitar (except "Square Dance" & "Silent Land"); Fred Frith – guitar, violin, & xylophone (1,4,5,7);  Olu Dara – cornet ("Disappearing" & "Upriver"); Henry Threadgill – alto sax ("Disappearing", "Unauthorized", & "Square Dance"); George Lewis – trombone ("Memory Serves", "Square Dance", & "Silent Land"); Billy Bang – violin ("Upriver" & "Unauthorized"); & Charles K. Noyes – drums, percussion, & bells ("Memory Serves" & "Silent Land").

Recorded at OAO Studio, Brooklyn, New York.

The land is never silent while we have Bill’s bass,

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