Two from this mornings DMG Newsletter:
OTOMO YOSHIHIDE/BILL LASWELL/YOSHIGAKI YASUHIRO - Soup (P-Vine 5856; Japan) OK, fans of Painkiller, Massacre and even Last Exit - this one's for you! Damn, I've been waiting more than two years for something this hard-hitting involving bass-supremo Laz, this time in a killer power trio with Otomo [guitars and occasionally turntables] and, from Otomo's New Jazz Quintet, Yasuhiro [drums]. Four long pieces: "Mushroom", "Seaweed", "Crab", and of course "Duck" [soup]. We had to get these from Japan ourselves, so stock is ltd.
THE MEN X PERIENCE [MENACE] With BILL LASWELL/VERNON REID/BOOTSY COLLINS et al - La Mancha Negra: The Black Stain (P-Vine 5354; Japan) Imagine our surprise when ordering current P-Vine releases directly from Japan and discovering that they still had a handful of this CD that drove Laswell collectors nuts trying to get even when it came out. This is rapper/funkster Menace along with guests Laz [2 cuts] , Umar Bin Hassan [Last Poets], Vernon Reid, J Cool, Keziah Jones, Donald Black, Adamhead, Elsa Cornish and special guests Bootsy, Bruce Mack [burnt Sugar] and Maceo Parker.
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Soup sounds interesting.