Review:
Guitarist Skopelitis' dustpan approach to world music sweeps various ethnic instrumental grit and grime into the whirling blades of co-producer Bill Laswell's shop-vac. Contributing to the unholy mess are Foday Musa Suso on kora, oudist/violinist Simon Shaheen, gospel organist Amina Claudine Myers, percussionists Zakir Hussain, Aiyb Dieng and Guilherme Franco, drummer Jaki Liebezeit, bassists Bill Laswell and Jah Wobble, and, consistently providing the most bracing moments, Bachir Attar (leader of the Master Musicians of Jajouka) raising hell on the plague-of-locusts vernacular oboe, the rhaita. When Ekstasis's free-floating anxiety is at its peak, it could almost be the disc that Can fans have been waiting for since Ege Bamyasi.
(by amg)


Joseph "Zigaboo" Modeliste : drum loop (1), drums (3,6,10);
Jah Wobble : bass (1,4,5,7,8,9);
Zakir Hussain : tablas (1);
Foday Musa Suso : doussongoni (1,8,9), kora (4,7);
Simon Shaheen : violin (1,6,9), oud & violin intro (2), violins (4);
Nicky Skopelitis : electric six-string guitar (1,2,3,4,5,7,9,10), electric twelve-string guitar (1,3,4,5,6,8,9,10), Coral sitar (2,6), baglama (3,9), electric slide guitar (6,7), dobro (9);
Jaki Liebezeit : drums (2,4,5,7,8,9);
Bill Laswell : basses (2), bass (3,6,10);
Guilherme Franco : cuica (2,3), little hammer (2), whistle (2), electric berimbau (3,6), cowbell (3), tambourine (4), congas (10);
Bachir Attar : flute (2), ghaita (5);
Amina Claudine Myers : Hammond B-3 organ (2,3,5,6,8,10);
Aiyb Dieng : chatan (3,6), talking drum (5), talking drums (8), metals (8)

Track 9 inspired by Mohammed Abdel Wahab

Track List:
total time: 56:51

01 Tarab
02 Meet Your Maker
03 Ghost of a Chance
04 Proud Flesh
05 Attar
06 One Eye Open
07 Heresy
08 Jubilee
09 Witness
10 Telling Time

Cue