Aspiration (album)

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Length 48:05 Aspiration (2011) Near Nadir (2011) Release date 15 March 2011 Genre Ambient music		Label Metastation Artist Bill Laswell Producer Bill Laswell

Released March 15, 2011 (2011-03-15) Recorded Greenpoint Studio, Brooklyn, NY Orange Music, West Orange, NJ The House of the Caid Khoubane, District Chbanat, Morocco Similar Bill Laswell albums, Ambient music albums

Aspiration is a compilation album by American composer Bill Laswell, released on March 15, 2011 by Metastation.

Personnel

Adapted from the Aspiration liner notes.

Musicians

Jeff Bova – synthesizer (4)

Bootsy Collins – bass guitar (4)

Alice Coltrane – piano and harp (2), musical arrangements (2)

Sussan Deyhim – vocals (3), musical arrangements (3)

Aïyb Dieng – Ghatam, congas and percussion (4)

Kudsi Erguner – ney (3)

Jonas Hellborg – bass guitar (4)

His Holiness The Dalai Lama – voice (5)

Zakir Hussain – tabla (1)

K. Pattabhi Jois – chant (1)

Toshinori Kondo – trumpet and electronics (5)

Bill Laswell – bass guitar (1, 3, 4, 5), percussion (6), remix (2), producer

Nils Petter Molvær – trumpet (1)

Mark Nauseef – meditation bells (3)

Pharoah Sanders – tenor saxophone (6)

Carlos Santana – guitar (2)

Simon Shaheen – oud and violin (4)

Nicky Skopelitis – guitar, sitar and baglama (4), percussion (6)

Bernie Worrell – electric piano and organ (4)

Technical personnel

James Dellatacoma – assistant engineering

Michael Fossenkemper – mastering

Russell Mills – cover art

Robert Musso – engineering

1Pattabhi Jois12:27
2Bliss: The Eternal Now7:47
3Searching for You7:03

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