Praxis: Bold As Love

Praxis - Bent Light (The Interworld and the New Innocence)

Hello again and welcome to the June swoonings, whilst I try to navigate the broken Blogger code that has lost almost all normal functionality.

We'll keep this to the point, as this is a group I've covered both individually and collectively before.

This show was issued in 2007 in a completely transmutated, reimagined way, with roughly a third of the music retwisted into a totally different iteration by Bill Laswell, but the raw, 2 1/2 hour opus is so balls-deep intense that it needs to be heard IMO.

There's no need to introduce these four players; they're all galaxy-class voyagers in sound and the noise they make in consort is really like no other aggregation.

I mean Bernie (Worrell), Buckethead, Brain and Bill (Laswell), come on. I remember when the first Praxis record came out and it sounded like it was recorded 1000 years in the future.

If I had to describe this music in words, I'd say it was Miles On The Corner of Titan and Saturn's rings.

So without further adieu, let's cut the chatter and spin the platter of this bad boy's 20th anniversary.

Praxis

Bonnaroo Festival

Manchester, TN 

6.11.2004

01 Bernie Worrell intro

02 Seven Laws of Woo

03 Crash Victim

04 Bent Light (The Interworld and the New Innocence)

05 Spun

06 Magus

07 Buckethead's dance interlude

08 Broken/Fractal (drum solo)

09 Guitar Virus

10 Machine Gun

11 Bernie Worrell organ interlude

12 Maggot Brain

13 Chopper

14 Night of the Slunk

15 Haunted

16 Optic

17 Vertebrae

Total time: 2:26:38

disc break goes after Track 09

Buckethead - guitar

Bill Laswell - bass

Bernie Worrell - keyboards & throne

Brain - drums

Lili Haydn - violin

seems like an unknown gen DAT of the complete concert, recorded from the soundboard

edited for applause, retracked, denoised and remastered by EN, June 2024

858 MB FLAC/direct link
this show was available for a time as a FLAC download back in 2004 on the Bonnaroo website

in 2007, the tapes of this concert were reworked by Bill Laswell into a completely different, reconstructed version, 

which can (and should) be purchased here

I'll return with a wild centennial celebration in a little over a week, by which time I hope against hope this interface will be cured of its disease and I can post normally again. I won't hold my breath, but we can dream, right?

In the mean time, do digest and enjoy this 146 minutes of utter mayhem, courtesy of a truly superb supergroup, and remember: Praxis makes perfect!--J.