Russian Chants «Parastas»

1995 remix album by Boris Feoktistov/Bill Laswell

Remix album by

Boris Feoktistov/Bill Laswell

Released

1995 (1995)

Recorded

Greenpoint Studios, Brooklyn, NY

Genre

Ambient

Length

49:53

Label

Meldac

Producer

Hisao Hirata

Bill Laswell chronology

Psychonavigation 2
(1995)

Russian Chants «Parastas»
(1995)

Off World One
(1996)

Russian Chants «Parastas» is an album by Russian composer Boris Feoktistov and American composer Bill Laswell. It was released in 1995 by Meldac.^[1] The album comprises ambient soundscapes created by Laswell structured around Russian orthodox liturgical chants authored by Boris Feoktistov.

Track listing

All music is composed by Boris Feoktistov and Bill Laswell

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Cold Chamber" (The Great Litany/Alleluia, Tone 8 Troparion, The 1st, The 2nd/The Beginning: "Bless Be, O Lord", Troparion: "Give Repose, O Lord"/The Small Litany/"Repose, Our Saviour")	16:42
2.	"Four Sided Vortex" ("Repose, Our Saviour"/"The Only Immortal"/The Small Litany)	16:27
3.	"Relative Motion" ("I Cry And Sob"/"With the Spirits of the Just"/The Insistent Litany)	16:43

Personnel

Adapted from the Russian Chants «Parastas» liner notes.^[2]

Musicians

Bill Laswell – bass guitar, drum programming, effects, mixing

Technical personnel

Hisao Hirata – producer
Akira Kitajima – cover art
Layng Martine – assistant engineer
Robert Musso – engineering, guitar
Masayo Takise – mastering

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
Japan	1995	Meldac	CD	MECI 26001
Germany	1996	99	CD	LC 6383 2150

References

^ "Sessionography". mussomusic.com. 2012. Archived from the original on November 30, 2014. Retrieved October 19, 2014.
^ Russian Chants «Parastas» (booklet). Boris Feoktistov and Bill Laswell. Japan: Meldac. 1995.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

External links

Parastas - Russian Chants at Bandcamp
Russian Chants «Parastas» ~Ambient Mix~ at Discogs (list of releases)

Bill Laswell

Discography
Axiom

Solo

Studio albums	Baselines Hear No Evil Outer Dark Silent Recoil: Dub System One Oscillations City of Light Oscillations 2 Invisible Design Imaginary Cuba Permutation Dub Chamber 3 Lo. Def Pressure Filmtracks 2000 Points of Order Version 2 Version: A Dub Transmission Invisible Design II Means of Deliverance Túwaqachi (The Fourth World)
As a pseudonym	Ambient Dub Volume I Ambient Dub Volume II: Dead Slow Doom Ride Dub Terror Exhaust Jihad (Points of Order) Lost in the Translation Akasha Funkcronomicon Off World One Distill Chapter One Mysteries of Creation Chapter Two Nagual Site Sacrifice The End of Law Serene Timeless Joy The Redesign Book of Exit: Dub Chamber 4
Remix albums	Russian Chants «Parastas» Oscillations Remixes Emerald Aether: Shape Shifting Trojan Dub Massive: Chapter One Trojan Dub Massive: Chapter Two
Cover albums	Jazzonia
Soundtrack albums	Broken Vessels
Compilations	Deconstruction: The Celluloid Recordings Light in Extension Ambient Compendium Final Oscillations ROIR Dub Sessions Aspiration

Collaborative

Studio albums	Low Life Outland Psychonavigation Cymatic Scan Visitation Web Somnific Flux Subsonic 2: Bass Terror Second Nature Psychonavigation 2 Interpieces Organization Outland 2 Psychonavigation 3 Dub Meltdown Outland 3 Psychonavigation 4 Charged Outland IV Life Space Death Radioaxiom: A Dub Transmission Psychonavigation 5 Buck Jam Tonic Aftermathematics Soup A Navel City/No One Is There Brutal Calling Episome Outland 5 Lodge No Matter Konton Near Nadir Blixt The Dream Membrane The Process
Live albums	Asian Games Soup Live Live at the Bowery Poetry Project Bass & Drums

Studio
albums