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Holy Terror (album)

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Released
  
1993

Length
  
62:19

Holy Terror (1993)
  
Time Has Come (1997)

Release date
  
1993

Label
  
Rykodisc

Recorded
  
1993

Scatterap / Home (1994)
  
Holy Terror (1993)

Artist
  
The Last Poets

Producer
  
Bill Laswell

Genres
  
Funk, Spoken word

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Funk albums
  
Filmtracks 2000, The Third Power, Unison, Third Eye Open, Aftershock 2005

Holy Terror is the twelfth album by rap/spoken word pioneers The Last Poets released in 1993. The album was financed and released by P-Vine Records in Japan and then released by Rykodisc Records in the United States and the United Kingdom later that same year, with a release in 2004 by Innerhythmic. The U.S. and UK releases featured one bonus track entitled "Black and Strong (Homesick)". The lead figures in the Last Poets at this time were Umar Bin Hassan and Abiodun Oyewole. The album was part of the Black Arc Series, launched by producer Bill Laswell in 1992.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Invocation"
  2. "Homesick"
  3. "Black Rage"
  4. "Men-tality"
  5. "Pelourino"
  6. "Funk"
  7. "If We Only Knew"
  8. "Illusion of Self"
  9. "Talk Show"
  10. "Black and Strong (Homesick)"
  11. "Last Rites"

Personnel

  • Umar Bin Hassan, Abiodun Oyewole, Grandmaster Melle Mel - voices
  • Bootsy Collins - Guitars, Bass
  • Bernie Worrell - Organ, Piano, Clavinet, Synthesizer
  • Bill Laswell - Bass beats, Samples, Loops
  • Aïyb Dieng - Congas, Chatan, Bells, Talking Drum, Doff, Tambourine, Gongs, Percussion
  • George Clinton - guest vocals on "Black and Strong (Homesick)"

    • Songs

    1Invocation2:02
    2Homesick8:21
    3Black Rage5:19

    References

    Holy Terror (album) Wikipedia
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