Method Of Defiance is the new band spearheaded by the legendary Bill Laswell. The tour dates, which begin September 11 at Williamsburg Music Hall in Brooklyn, mark the first time in three years that Michigan-born, New York City based resident Laswell has played shows here in the United States.
In addition to the tour,
Method Of Defiance will release a live album, Nihon on RareNoise Records in the U.S. on September 22nd.
The band will be recording a studio album for a 2010 release.
Bill Laswell is man who is happy not to play the rock star game, instead opting to set his own rules and goals. The legendary music man Chris Blackwell cited Laswell
as the While he's an electric bassist/producer/reconstructionist/sound assassin who operates outside the rules of the game, occasionally Laswell's work meets the mainstream. In fact, there's more than a good chance that many own one of Laswell's sonic escapades and don't know it.
He's a Grammy Award winner and the creator of Herbie Hancock's Rockit/Future Shock.
He brought Proto-Turntablism and Electronica to a mass audience, and since then has worked with an
unimaginable range of musicians, artists and thinkers, among them William S. Burroughs, Afrika Bambaataa, John Zorn, George Clinton, Mick Jagger, Rammellzee, Zakir Hussain, Paul Bowles,
Hakim Bey, The Ramones, Laurie Anderson, The Last Poets, John Lydon, The Dalai Lama, Peter Gabriel, Ryuchi Sakamoto, Motorhead, Brian Eno, Tony Williams, Sting, Carlos
Santana, Pharoah Sanders, Bootsy Collins and hundreds more from the Americas, Africa,The Caribbean, Europe, The Middle East, China and Japan.
Method Of Defiance is Laswell on bass with Dr. Israel on vocals, the legendary keyboardist Bernie Worrell, drummer Guy Licata, trumpeter Toshinori Kondo, and vocalist Hawk, with special guest DJ Krush.
The band recently played a triumphant show at the famous Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.
Below are the tour dates for Method Of Defiance:
September 11 Brooklyn, NY Williamsburg Music Hall
September 12 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
September 16 Los Angeles, CA Roxy
September 18 San Francisco, CA Regency Ballroom
In addition to the tour,
Method Of Defiance will release a live album, Nihon on RareNoise Records in the U.S. on September 22nd.
The band will be recording a studio album for a 2010 release.
Bill Laswell is man who is happy not to play the rock star game, instead opting to set his own rules and goals. The legendary music man Chris Blackwell cited Laswell
as the
"consummate musician who's around completely for the music...he never stops working and never stops reinventing himself."
He's a Grammy Award winner and the creator of Herbie Hancock's Rockit/Future Shock.
He brought Proto-Turntablism and Electronica to a mass audience, and since then has worked with an
unimaginable range of musicians, artists and thinkers, among them William S. Burroughs, Afrika Bambaataa, John Zorn, George Clinton, Mick Jagger, Rammellzee, Zakir Hussain, Paul Bowles,
Hakim Bey, The Ramones, Laurie Anderson, The Last Poets, John Lydon, The Dalai Lama, Peter Gabriel, Ryuchi Sakamoto, Motorhead, Brian Eno, Tony Williams, Sting, Carlos
Santana, Pharoah Sanders, Bootsy Collins and hundreds more from the Americas, Africa,The Caribbean, Europe, The Middle East, China and Japan.
Method Of Defiance is Laswell on bass with Dr. Israel on vocals, the legendary keyboardist Bernie Worrell, drummer Guy Licata, trumpeter Toshinori Kondo, and vocalist Hawk, with special guest DJ Krush.
The band recently played a triumphant show at the famous Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.
Below are the tour dates for Method Of Defiance:
September 11 Brooklyn, NY Williamsburg Music Hall
September 12 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
September 16 Los Angeles, CA Roxy
September 18 San Francisco, CA Regency Ballroom
