Hallucination Engine
Hallucination Engine is a 1994 album by the New York based music group Material. The album mixes jazz, dub, funk and Indian music.
"Mantra" was issued as a 12" and CD single in 1993 featuring a 17-minute "Praying Mantra Mix" by The Orb, the album's "Doors of Perception Mix", and a 5-minute edit.
A Tetsu Inoue mix of "Ruins" was included on the Axiom Ambient: Lost in the Translation album.
"Eternal Drift" was issued as a 12" single in 1994 featuring the album version with re-mixes "Tribal Remix" by Kupper and Hacker, "Construct Over Destiny Mix" by Bill Laswell and "Eternal Thaemlitz Curse Mix" by Terre Thaemlitz. The last two mixes were included on the Axiom Ambient: Lost in the Translation album.
William S. Burroughs reading of "Words of Advice for Young People" had appeared on his 1993 album Spare Ass Annie and other Tales .
"Cucumber Slumber" is a cover of the Weather Report track from the 1974 album Mysterious Traveller.
Track listing
- "Black Light" – 7:33
- "Mantra" – 8:44
- "Ruins" – 8:54
- "Eternal Drift" – 7:35
- "Words of Advice" – 3:58
- "Cucumber Slumber" – 7:30
- "The Hidden Garden" / "Naima" – 13:00
- "Shadows of Paradise" – 9:45
Personnel
- Bill Laswell – basses, beats, loops, samples, etc.
- Wayne Shorter – soprano and tenor saxophones
- William S. Burroughs – voice
- Liu Sola – voice
- Simon Shaheen – violin and oud
- Nicky Skopelitis – acoustic and electric 6- and 12- string guitars, coral electric sitar, baglama and Fairlight CMI
- Bernie Worrell – electric piano, Hammond B-3 organ
- Bootsy Collins – space bass
- L. Shankar – electric violin
- Sly Dunbar – drum kit
- Jeff Bova – synthesizers
- Jihad Racy – ney
- Jonas Hellborg – acoustic bass guitar and fretless electric bass
- Zakir Hussain – tabla
- Trilok Gurtu – tabla
- Vikku Vinayakram – ghatam
- Fahim Dandan – voice
- George Basil – qanoun
- Michael Baklouk – daff, tambourine
- Aïyb Dieng – chatan, congas, percussion
- -Hallucination
Production
- Recorded at Greenpoint Studio, BC Studio/Gowanus, Platinum Island Studio and Krypton Studio and Media Arts
- Produced and arranged by Bill Laswell.
- Engineers Robert Musso, Oz Fritz and Martin Bisi
- Mixed by Robert Musso at Greenpoint Studio
- Cover by James Koehnline
Release history
- 1994 – Axiom/Island/PolyGram 518 351
- 1994 – Axiom/BMG, 74321-18190