Death Cube K – Dreamatorium (1994)
Laswell’s role: Sound Design, Bass
So for a moment we are moving away from pure Laswell projects to a well known alias of one Buckethead. For anyone interested, Laswell and Buckethead met around 1992 after Bucketheadland was released, and became a second lead guitarist of sorts for Laswell behind Nicky Skopelitis. The two would later be key members of Praxis. Either way, the important part of this discussion is Dreamatorium, which is an interesting experimental dark ambient piece.
The only two players here are Laswell and Buckethead, and based on the genre the two do what you would expect; a slow maniacal build up with Buckethead never quite releasing his inner insanity, instead letting the Laswell production abuse his quiet riffs. Land of the Lost is about as perfect an introduction for a dark ambient album (A genre I don’t normally have much interest in), the lovely and almost foreign guitar picking a treat to behold. It doesn’t quite match up to Maggot Dream though in my opinion, another absolute beauty.
Only a short one today, but this is another one not meant to be missed. It is dark ambient, and although not that heavy in the scope of the genre it can be a tough album to get through if you are actively listening to it and it isn’t your sort of thing – It is great for background music though if it doesn’t tickle your fancy directly.
Always good for a chill – 6.5/10