| Túwaqachi (The Fourth World) | ||||
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| Studio album by Bill Laswell | ||||
| Released | November 27, 2012 | |||
| Studio | Orange Music, West Orange, NJ | |||
| Genre | Ambient, sound collage | |||
| Length | 59:01 | |||
| Label | M.O.D. Technologies | |||
| Producer | Bill Laswell | |||
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Túwaqachi (The Fourth World) is the eighteenth solo album by American composer Bill Laswell, released on November 27, 2012 by M.O.D. Technologies. [1] It was composed by Laswell as an alternative film score to Godfrey Reggio's 1982 experimental film Koyaanisqatsi . With the blessing of the director, an edited version of the film along with the alternative score are intended to be played together in a live setting. [2]
William Otis Laswell is an American bass guitarist, record producer, and record label owner. He has been involved in hundreds of recordings with many collaborators from all over the world. His music draws from funk, world music, jazz, dub and ambient styles. He has played or produced hardcore punk and heavy metal.
M.O.D. Technologies is an independent record label based in New York City and intended to be the modern evolution of producer and bassist Bill Laswell's Axiom label. It was founded in 2010 by Laswell and RareNoiseRecords founder Giacomo Bruzzo, in part to provide a creative outlet for the group Method of Defiance, which began as a loose collective of musicians and had at that point coalesced to include Dr. Israel, Garrison Hawk, Toshinori Kondo, Bernie Worrell and DJ Krush among its members. The first incarnation of the group debuted at the 2007 Synch Festival in Athens, Greece.
A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score forms part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes pre-existing music, dialogue and sound effects, and comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to enhance the dramatic narrative and the emotional impact of the scene in question. Scores are written by one or more composers, under the guidance of, or in collaboration with, the film's director or producer and are then usually performed by an ensemble of musicians – most often comprising an orchestra or band, instrumental soloists, and choir or vocalists – and recorded by a sound engineer.
