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Last Poets: This Is Madness

On March 1971, “Douglas” label released “This Is Madness”, the second Last Poets studio album. It was recorded in 1970, at “Mediasound” in New York City, and was produced by Alan Douglas and Stefan Bright.

Personnel:

  • Jalaluddin Mansur Nuriddin – lead and backing vocals
  • Umar Bin Hassan – lead and backing vocals
  • Raymond “Nilaja” Hurrey – percussion
  • Anthony C. Bongiovi – engineer
  • Abdul Mati (Abdul Mati Klarwein) – painting
  • Bob Vermosa – lettering
  • Bilal Farid – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Alafia Pudim.

  1. True Blues
  2. Related to What Chant – Alafia Pudim, Omar Ben Hassen, Raymond “Nilaja” Hurrey
  3. Related to What – Omar Ben Hassen
  4. Black Is Chant – Alafia Pudim, Omar Ben Hassen, Raymond “Nilaja” Hurrey
  5. Black Is – Omar Ben Hassen
  6. Time – Omar Ben Hassen
  7. Mean Machine Chant – Alafia Pudim, Omar Ben Hassen, Raymond “Nilaja” Hurrey
  8. Mean Machine
  9. White Man’s Got a God Complex
  10. Opposites
  11. Black People What Y’all Gon’ Do Chant – Alafia Pudim, Omar Ben Hassen, Raymond “Nilaja” Hurrey
  12. Black People What Y’all Gon’ Do – Omar Ben Hassen
  13. O.D.
  14. Time Is Madness Chant – Alafia Pudim, Omar Ben Hassen, Raymond “Nilaja” Hurrey
  15. This Is Madness – Omar Ben Hassen

Bill Laswell: Hashisheen: The End of the Law

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:

  1. First Reading
  2. The Old Man of the Mountain
  3. The Western Lands
  4. The Spilled Cup
  5. Marco Pol’s Tale
  6. Pilgrimage to Cairo
  7. Freya Stark at Alamut
  8. Castles
  9. Hashish Poem
  10. Sinan’s Post
  11.  Assassinations
  12. The Mongols Destroy Alamut
  13. The Divine Self
  14. Morning High
  15. A Quick Trip to Alamut
  16. Slogans
  17. Book of the Highest Initiation
  18.  The Lord of Resurrection
  19. The Assassins
  20. Tale of the Caliph Hakem
  21. The Assassins
  22. Last Reading