| Praxis è il nome di un progetto musicale di Bill Laswell in continuo cambiamento: progetto che combina elementi di funk, jazz, hip-hop, grind e avanguardia assieme ad improvvisazione a livelli altissimi.
La loro prima apparizione risale al 1992 con l'album Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis), un disco molto acclamato dalla critica e che vedeva in formazione Buckethead, Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell and Brain.
Gli artisti che hanno preso parte al progetto Praxis sono tantissimi:
* Buckethead on guitars
* Bootsy Collins on bass and vocals
* Bernie Worrell on keyboards
* Bill Laswell on bass
* Les Claypool on bass, whamola, and vocals
* DJ Disk on turntables
* Af Next Man Flip on turntables
* Invisibl Skratch Piklz on turntables
* DXT on turntables
* Brain on drums
* Cindy Blackman on drums
* Yamatsuka Eye on vocals
* Kathy Brown on vocals
* Toshinori Kondo on trumpet
* Hakim Bey on vocals, and inspiration
* Lili Haydn on violin
* John Zorn on saxophone
* Mick Harris on drums
* Alex Haas on treatments, keyboards, and process
* David Castellan on loops, textures, and compost
* Julian Joyce as "DarkStep Junglist"
* Pat Thrall on guitars
* Anne Pollack on flutes
* Charlotta Jansen on vocals
* Peter Wetherbee on drums, guitars, vocals, synthesis, loops, beats, and noise
* Serj Tankian on vocals
* Iggy Pop on vocals
* Maximum Bob on vocals
Discografia
* 1992: Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis)
* 1992: A Taste of Mutation
* 1994: Sacrifist
* 1994: Metatron
* 1997: Live in Poland
* 1997: Transmutation Live
* 1997: 1984 (EP)
* 1998: Mold
* 1998: Collection
* 1999: Warszawa
* 2005: Zurich
* 2007: Tennessee 2004
* 2008: Profanation (Preparation for a Coming Darkness)
In modo particolare Sacrifist "comprende" una serie di musicisti veramente spettacolare:
* Bootsy Collins - bass and vocals
* Buckethead - guitar
* Brain - drums
* Bernie Worrell - keyboards
* Mick Harris - drums
* Yamatsuka Eye - vocals
* John Zorn - saxophone
* Bill Laswell - bass
Lo stesso va detto per il misterioso ultimo album Profanation, per ora disponibile "forse" solo in Giappone
* Bill Laswell
* Buckethead
* Brain
* Bernie Worrell
* Otomo Yoshihide
* Iggy Pop
* Mike Patton
* Serj Tankian
* Killah Priest
* Rammellzee
* Tatsuya Yoshida
Nota curiosa
I Praxis dovevano suonare al Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival del 2002 con la formazione Laswell, Buckethead, Worrell e Brain, ma Laswell non era ingrado di suonare (???); al festival erano presenti anche i Primus: così Les Claypool si inventò una jam session con gli altri tre musicisti.
Nacque in questo modo il supergruppo "Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains"
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