Maybe, looking at the overwhelming presence of the highly prized name of Bill Laswell in recent discographic productions (as a producer, arranger, band leader, composer, or just plain bass

player), someone will call the genial American musician a real onmipresent ingredient of the music of the end of the millennium. And this is sure.

But another sure thing is also the extraordinary mental rapidity with which mister Laswell composes his albums, and assembles them, and makes them sound complete, brilliant, marvellously trendy. And he never misses a beat!

Let's take for instance this "Nagual site", which is very emblematic in regards to building a bridge between East and West. Here, the deep musical soil is clearly Indian, just as three of the protagonists are Indian: the tablas wizard Zakir Hussain and the vocalists Gulam Mohamed Khan and Sussan Dehyim.

But, beside them, there are also some Western stars - the sax player Dave Liebman, the pianist Bernie Worrell, and most of all the bass player Jah Wobble - clearly struck on the way to Bombay. And it's just through this unique mix that the six tracks filling the CD sound so deliciously enchanting. So ancient and so modern at the same time.