BILL LASWELL

TÚWAQACHI (THE FOURTH WORLD)

TÚWAQACHI: THE FOURTH WORLD was created by iconoclast musician/producer Bill Laswell as an alternative score to Godfrey Reggio's 1982 ground breaking film "Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance". Originating as an audio/visual interaction for live/solo performance only. The program has been compacted into a continuous one hour journey. Replacing Phillip Glass' epic original score with a completely contrasting vision (film and sound together to be used for live performance only). The sound alone, "TÚWAQACHI" the new sound track, is a haunting rite of passage, through shadows and aether, darkness and light. Ethereal environmental ambient, enhanced distorted destruction and doomed decay. A new enlightened, visceral and sometimes tortured landscape. Bill Laswell's signature low end theory at its most demonic and illuminated. Proceed with caution.

  1/  Totoka                                     (Laswell)                     3.03
  2/  Kwatoko                                    (Laswell)                     0.24
  3/  Wikima                                     (Laswell)                     1.15
  4/  The Upper Air                              (Laswell)                     1.29
  5/  Oraibi                                     (Laswell)                     1.40
  6/  Pamosi                                     (Laswell)                     1.24
  7/  Waki                                       (Laswell)                     1.50
  8/  Patuwvotah                                 (Laswell)                     4.29
  9/  Pavati                                     (Laswell)                     2.17
  10/ Kwatoko (Part 2)                           (Laswell)                     1.09
  11/ Wikima (Part 2)                            (Laswell)                     0.59
  12/ Panaiyoikyasi                              (Laswell)                     2.23
  13/ Cloud House                                (Laswell)                     0.59
  14/ Wenima                                     (Laswell)                     2.33
  15/ Totoka (Part 2)                            (Laswell)                     3.12
  16/ Waki (Part 2)                              (Laswell)                     2.37
  17/ Solstice                                   (Laswell)                     3.54
  18/ Patuwvotah (Part 2)                        (Laswell)                     1.36
  19/ Cloud House (Part 2)                       (Laswell)                     2.51
  20/ Migration                                  (Laswell)                     12.53
  21/ Wenima (Part 2)                            (Laswell)                     6.20

          Recorded and mixed at Orange Music, West Orange, New Jersey
          Engineering: Robert Musso
          Assistant: James Dellatacoma
          Produced by Bill Laswell
          Executive Producer: Giacomo Bruzzo
Bill Laswell: bass, beats, sound collage.

          Due November  27, 2012 on M.O.D. Technologies (USA), MOD010 (Digital only)