Lost in the Translation

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Lost in the Translation
Bill Laswell - Lost in the Translation.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 8, 1994 (1994-11-08)
StudioGreenpoint (Brooklyn)
Genre Ambient
Length121:33
Label Axiom
Producer Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell chronology
Jihad (Points of Order)
(1994)
Lost in the Translation
(1994)
Outer Dark
(1994)
Professional ratings
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Lost in the Translation is an album by American composer Bill Laswell, issued under the moniker Axiom Ambient. It was released on November 8, 1994, by Axiom. [3]

Contents

Track listing

Disc one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Eternal Drift" (Below the Boundaries of the Inner Station/Eternal Thaemlitz Curse/
Light of Darkness/Construct Over Destiny/Sacred Drift)
Laswell, Skopelitis, Thaemlitz 15:53
2."Peace" (My Soul to Keep/Who Does She Hope to Be?/Peace in Essaouria) Hazel, Sanders, Sharrock 17:11
3."Aum" (Soul Searcher/Praying Mantra (Second Attention)/Tarab Scan/Ritual in Transfigured Time)Caroline, Lakshminarayana, Rao, Shankar, Skopelitis, Wobble 17:37
4."Cosmic Trigger" (Through the Flames/Cosmic Slop/Animal Behavior) Buckethead, Collins, Laswell, Worrell 16:19
Disc two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Dharmapala" (Along a Ghostly Path/Before Dark/Knox Om Pax) Hellborg, Wahab 14:35
2."Flash of Panic" (Pipes of Pan/Up Above the World/Under Black Skies/Out of the Ether)Attar, Baker, Laswell, Skopelitis 15:17
3."Holy Mountain" (Assassin's Dream/Blues in the East/Alamut Transmission)Laswell, Sola 16:41
4."Ruins" (Bubble Wrap mix) Inoue, Laswell8:00

Personnel

Adapted from the Lost in the Translation liner notes. [4] Musicians

Technical

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United States1994 Axiom CD, LP 314-524 053

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References

  1. Anderson, Rick. "Axiom Ambient: Lost in the Translation". Allmusic. Retrieved October 19, 2014.
  2. columnist (September 1995). "Axiom Ambient - Lost in the Translation". Down Beat : 48.
  3. Robbins, Ira (2007). "Bill Laswell". Trouser Press . Retrieved October 19, 2014.
  4. Lost in the Translation (booklet). Axiom Ambient. New York City, New York: Axiom. 1994.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)