Lost in the Translation
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{{Infobox album
| name = Lost in the Translation
| type = album
| artist = Axiom Ambient
| cover = Bill Laswell - Lost in the Translation.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|1994|11|8}}
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio = Greenpoint (Brooklyn)
| genre = Ambient
| length = 121:33
| label = Axiom
| producer = Bill Laswell
| chronology = Bill Laswell
| prev_title = Jihad (Points of Order)
| prev_year = 1994
| next_title = Outer Dark
| next_year = 1994
}}
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite web |first=Rick |last=Anderson |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000626642|pure_url=yes}}|title=Axiom Ambient: Lost in the Translation |website=Allmusic |accessdate=October 19, 2014}}
|rev2 = Down Beat
|rev2score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite journal |last=columnist |title=Axiom Ambient - Lost in the Translation |journal=Down Beat |date=September 1995 |page=48 }}
}}
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.{{cite magazine |first=Ira |last=Robbins |url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=bill_laswell |title=Bill Laswell |magazine=Trouser Press |year=2007 |accessdate=October 19, 2014}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| headline = Disc one
| title1 = Eternal Drift
| note1 = Below the Boundaries of the Inner Station/Eternal Thaemlitz Curse/
Light of Darkness/Construct Over Destiny/Sacred Drift
| writer1 = Laswell, Skopelitis, Thaemlitz
| length1 = 15:53
| title2 = Peace
| note2 = My Soul to Keep/Who Does She Hope to Be?/Peace in Essaouria
| writer2 = Hazel, Sanders, Sharrock
| length2 = 17:11
| title3 = Aum
| note3 = Soul Searcher/Praying Mantra (Second Attention)/Tarab Scan/Ritual in Transfigured Time
| writer3 = Caroline, Lakshminarayana, Rao, Shankar, Skopelitis, Wobble
| length3 = 17:37
| title4 = Cosmic Trigger
| note4 = Through the Flames/Cosmic Slop/Animal Behavior
| writer4 = Buckethead, Collins, Laswell, Worrell
| length4 = 16:19
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Disc two
| title1 = Dharmapala
| note1 = Along a Ghostly Path/Before Dark/Knox Om Pax
| length1 = 14:35
| title2 = Flash of Panic
| note2 = Pipes of Pan/Up Above the World/Under Black Skies/Out of the Ether
| writer2 = Attar, Baker, Laswell, Skopelitis
| length2 = 15:17
| title3 = Holy Mountain
| note3 = Assassin's Dream/Blues in the East/Alamut Transmission
| writer3 = Laswell, Sola
| length3 = 16:41
| title4 = Ruins
| note4 = Bubble Wrap mix
| writer4 = Inoue, Laswell
| length4 = 8:00
}}
Personnel
Adapted from the Lost in the Translation liner notes.{{cite AV media notes |title=Lost in the Translation |others=Axiom Ambient |year=1994 |type=booklet |publisher=Axiom |location=New York City, New York}}
Musicians
- Tetsu Inoue – effects ("Ruins")
- Bill Laswell – effects, producer
- The Orb – effects ("Aum")
- Terre Thaemlitz – effects ("Eternal Drift")
Technical
- Layng Martine – assistant engineer
- Robert Musso – engineering
- Shinro Ohtake – cover art
Release history
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{Discogs master |master=12921 |name=Axiom Ambient - Lost in the Translation |type=album}}
- [http://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-the-translation-directions-in-music Lost in the Translation] at Bandcamp
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