Nicky Skopelitis - Ekstasis FLAC

Nicky Skopelitis Fusion Acid Rock Dub 1993 UK

Tracklist Hide Credits

1	Tarab Bass Guitar – Jah WobbleDrums [Loop] – Joseph "Zigaboo" ModelisteElectric Guitar, Twelve-String Guitar – Nicky SkopelitisHarp [Doussongoni] – Foday Musa SusoTabla – Zakir HussainViolin – Simon ShaheenWritten-By – Laswell, Wobble*	7:19
2	Meet Your Maker Bass Guitar – Bill LaswellCuica, Whistle, Other [Little Hammer] – Guilherme FrancoDrums – Jaki LiebezeitElectric Guitar, Twelve-String Guitar – Nicky SkopelitisFlute – Bachir AttarOrgan [Hammond B-3] – Amina Claudine MyersOud, Violin [Intro] – Simon Shaheen	5:57
3	Ghost Of A Chance Baglama, Electric Guitar, Twelve-String Guitar – Nicky SkopelitisBass Guitar – Bill LaswellBerimbau [Electric], Cuica, Cowbell – Guilherme FrancoDrums – Joseph "Zigaboo" Modeliste*Organ [Hammond B-3] – Amina Claudine MyersPerformer [Chatan] – Aiyb Dieng	5:06
4	Proud Flesh Bass Guitar – Jah WobbleDrums – Jaki LiebezeitElectric Guitar, Twelve-String Guitar – Nicky SkopelitisKora – Foday Musa SusoTambourine – Guilherme FrancoViolin – Simon Shaheen	4:48
5	Sanctuary Bass Guitar – Jah WobbleDrums – Jaki LiebezeitElectric Guitar, Twelve-String Guitar – Nicky SkopelitisOboe [Ghaita] – Bachir AttarOrgan [Hammond B-3] – Amina Claudine MyersTalking Drum – Aiyb DiengWritten-By – Attar, Wobble	5:57
6	One Eye Open Bass Guitar – Bill LaswellBerimbau [Electric] – Guilherme FrancoDrums – Joseph "Zigaboo" ModelisteOrgan [Hammond B-3] – Amina Claudine MyersPerformer [Chatan] – Aiyb DiengSitar [Coral], Electric Guitar, Twelve-String Guitar – Nicky SkopelitisViolin – Simon ShaheenWritten-By – Laswell	4:41
7	Heresy Bass Guitar – Jah WobbleDrums – Jaki LiebezeitElectric Guitar, Twelve-String Guitar – Nicky SkopelitisKora – Foday Musa SusoWritten-By – Suso, Wobble	5:36
8	Jubilee Bass Guitar – Jah WobbleDrums – Jaki LiebezeitElectric Guitar, Twelve-String Guitar – Nicky SkopelitisHarp [Doussongoni] – Foday Musa SusoOrgan [Hammond B-3] – Amina Claudine MyersTalking Drum – Aiyb DiengWritten-By – Suso, Wobble	4:39
9	Witness Baglama, Dobro, Electric Guitar, Twelve-String Guitar – Nicky SkopelitisBass Guitar – Jah WobbleDrums – Jaki LiebezeitHarp [Doussongoni] – Foday Musa SusoViolin – Simon ShaheenWritten-By – Wobble, Shaheen	7:34
10	Telling Time Bass Guitar – Bill LaswellCongas – Guilherme FrancoDrums – Joseph "Zigaboo" Modeliste*Electric Guitar, Twelve-String Guitar – Nicky SkopelitisOrgan [Hammond B-3] – Amina Claudine Myers	4:57

Companies, etc.

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Island Records Inc.
Copyright (c) – Island Records Inc.
Distributed By – Island Records Inc.
Recorded At – BC Studio
Recorded At – Greenpoint Studios
Recorded At – Platinum Island Studios
Mixed At – Platinum Island Studios
Mastered At – Masterdisk

Credits

A&R [Administration] – Tracy McKnight
Cover – James Koehnline
Engineer – Bruce Calder, Martin Bisi, Bob Musso*
Engineer [Assistant At Greenpoint] – Imad Mansour
Engineer [Assistant At Platinum Island] – Chris Flam
Engineer, Engineer [Mix For Velocity] – Oz Fritz
Layout, Design – Aldo Sampieri
Mastered By – Howie Weinberg
Photography By – Ira Cohen
Producer – Bill Laswell, Nicky Skopelitis
Technician [Equipment] – Artie Smith
Written-By – Skopelitis*

Notes

℗© 1993 Island Records Inc.

Recorded in the U.S.A.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode (Printed): 7 314-5145 18-2 9
Barcode (String): 731451451829
Matrix / Runout: 314 514 518-2 01⁒

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
none	Nicky Skopelitis	Ekstasis ‎(Cass, Album, Promo)	Axiom, Island Studios	none	UK	Unknown
314-514 518-2	Nicky Skopelitis	Ekstasis ‎(CD, Album, RP)	Axiom	314-514 518-2	US	Unknown
none	Nicky Skopelitis	Ekstasis ‎(10xFile, ALAC, Album, RE)	Not On Label (Bill Laswell Self-Released)	none	US	2016
314-514 518-4	Nicky Skopelitis	Ekstasis ‎(Cass, Album)	Axiom	314-514 518-4	US	1993

Original

What a great artist, listening to his music reveals every time fresh levels of introspective beauty , love the Ekstasis album in particular, but all his work is of the highest quality.

Malaris

This album is really two albums folded into one. The first is a Bill Laswell job, with Zigaboo Modeliste from the Meters on funky, hide-slapping drums. It is perfectly excellent – Laswell has immaculate, if predictable, timing and Zigaboo can hotstep in his sleep. The second is more of a Jah Wobble album, with Jaki Liebezeit (from Can) on drums, and amounts to probably the greatest funk album ever produced. The off-kilter whipcrack of Liebezeit's whirling, drilling, razoring drum attack through and across Wobble's monstrous bass patterns is truly possessed, driving various collectives into fainting froths and full-on fist-fucks of overdriven melodic statement, crying at the moon, howling down the mountains, moaning up from the sump of a deep well. Gob-smacking stuff. The four Laswell/Modeliste tracks are – 1) Tarab / 3) Ghost of a chance / 6) One eye open / 10) Telling time. The utterly exceptional Wobble/Liebezeit tracks are – 2) Meet your maker / 4) Proud flesh / 5) Sanctuary / 7) Heresy / 8) Jubilee / 9) Witness. Skopelitis, the mysteriously hermetic and very under-recorded guitarist and writer of these tunes, layers exquisite chords and runs, and occasionally lets rip, with surpassing taste. The world-music combos that play with him permutate from a roster of Simon Shaheen on levantine weeping violin, Amina Claudine Myers on greasy Hammond organ, Foday Muso Suso on kora, the Moroccan Bachir Attar on flute and demented ghaita, and exemplary percussionists Zakir Hussain, Guilherme Franco, and Aiyb Dieng, No vocals at all. The album is, I think, the best of the many Laswell/Material productions, being completely focused, all five or six minute tracks, with no merely groovy or dubby workouts, all of it melodically fascinating and funky as all hell. Only one downside – there's never been a vinyl version. If you like driven, possessed world-music funk, this is the dog's dangle-bag, the cat's kit, the dead up out and janglebone again. Spirit medicine of a very high order.