| Lost in the Translation | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | November 8, 1994 (1994-11-08) | |||
| Studio | Greenpoint (Brooklyn) | |||
| Genre | Ambient | |||
| Length | 121:33 | |||
| Label | Axiom | |||
| Producer | Bill Laswell | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Down Beat | [2] |
Lost in the Translation is an album by American composerBill Laswell, issued under the moniker Axiom Ambient. It was released on November 8, 1994, byAxiom.[3]
InThe Ambient Century (2000), Mark Prendergast describesLost in the Translation as "an overlapping and intertwiningcollage of eight symphonicAmbient movements containing some of the most impressive music from the Axiom catalogue", noting thatthe Orb andTetsu Inoue are both represented.[4] Rick Anderson ofAllMusic describes it as the zenith of Laswell's musical interest in "cybermysticism".[1]Trouser Press named it one of three "star-packed repertory extravaganzas devoted to specific genre indulgence" in Laswell's catalogue, noting that it uses non-ambient musicians to "enter that realm."[5]
The track "Peace in Essaouira", writes Prendergast, "was mixed for the lateEddie Hazel andSonny Sharrock and featured the playing of both guitarists in a sublime dedication to Jimi Hendrix's 1967 ballad 'Little Wing'. The track concluded with the saxophonistPharoah Sanders playing a haunting ballad for Sharrock in the coastal Moroccan town ofEssaouira."[4]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 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 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 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, Laswell | 8:00 |
Adapted from theLost in the Translation liner notes.[6]Musicians
Technical
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
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| United States | 1994 | Axiom | CD,LP | 314-524 053 |
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