
On May 25, 1999, “Sub Rosa” label released “Hashisheen: The End of Law”, the 23rd Bill Laswell album. It was recorded in 1999, and was produced by Peter Backer and Janet Rienstra.
Personnel:
- Bill Laswell – bass guitar, effects, musical arrangements
- Jah Wobble – bass guitar, keyboards, spoken word
- Helios Creed – guitar, effects
- Nicky Skopelitis – guitar
- Oliver Ray – guitar
- Paul Schütze – instruments
- Techno Animal – instruments
- Anton Fier – drums
- Jaki Liebezeit – drums
- Neville Murray – bendir, congas
- Hakim Bey – spoken word
- Nicole Blackman – spoken word
- William S. Burroughs – spoken word
- Anne Clark – spoken word
- Ira Cohen – spoken word
- Lizzy Mercier Descloux – spoken word
- Sussan Deyhim – spoken word
- Umar Bin Hassan – spoken word
- Percy Howard – spoken word
- Genesis P-Orridge – spoken word
- Iggy Pop – spoken word
- Patti Smith – spoken word
- Janet Rienstra – musical arrangements
- Hugo Scholten – engineer
- Peter Becker – engineer
- Mark Ferda – engineer, mixing
Track listing:
- First Reading
- The Old Man of the Mountain
- The Western Lands
- The Spilled Cup
- Marco Pol’s Tale
- Pilgrimage to Cairo
- Freya Stark at Alamut
- Castles
- Hashish Poem
- Sinan’s Post
- Assassinations
- The Mongols Destroy Alamut
- The Divine Self
- Morning High
- A Quick Trip to Alamut
- Slogans
- Book of the Highest Initiation
- The Lord of Resurrection
- The Assassins
- Tale of the Caliph Hakem
- The Assassins
- Last Reading