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Sleeve notes by Jon Hassell and Brian Eno. Back in record shops on the day of the 2020 vernal equinox, the second release on Hassell’s own Ndeya label. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHailed as one of the 50 best ambient albums of all time by Pitchfork, \u003ci\u003eVernal Equinox \u003c\/i\u003ewas the first commercially released work by Jon Hassell, originally put out by Lovely Music in 1977. It is also the debut of a pioneering new form of music that would become known as “fourth world”: a subtle blend of field recordings, electric jazz, ambience and global music influences. Hassell’s trademark FX-soaked trumpet is carefully embellished by a studio ensemble including the master Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos and David Rosenboom on synth. 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During this period Hassell was inspired by the increasingly innovative production techniques being used in hip-hop, in particular the hyper-collaged sampledelic barrage of the Bomb Squad’s work with Public Enemy, hearing it as a kind of extension of the tape splicing that Teo Macero brought to his work with Miles Davis. He began to incorporate more of this aesthetic into his own music, playing over loops of his own performances and riffing on angular juxtapositions of noise, rhythm and melody. The resulting sonic stew is a kind of futuristic sci-fi funk with an appropriately melted production aesthetic – instruments and samples jumping to the forefront then disappearing in the manner of the best dub records.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Living City\u003c\/i\u003e captures the Jon Hassell Group in September 1989 performing as part of an audio-visual installation inside the World Financial Center Winter Garden in New York City, with Brian Eno mixing the band live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePsychogeography\u003c\/i\u003e is a situationist re-thinking of the 1990 City: Works Of Fiction album, a carefully edited sequence of alternate takes, demos and studio jams put together by Jon Hassell in 2014 using Debordian philosophy as his guide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFurther Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e is a double CD anthology of the music on the vinyl editions, with a disc devoted to each album in hardbound book style packaging, and an extensive booklet containing sleevenotes and archival images.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ndeya","offers":[{"title":"CD | x2","offer_id":50388113097035,"sku":"2006579","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/NDEYA10_JH_FURTHER_FICTIONS_3000_65ccd3a3_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726339660"},{"product_id":"the-surgeon-of-the-nightsky","title":"The Surgeon Of The Nightsky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \"INTUITION Master Series\" starts with Jon Hassell's legendary album \"The Surgeon of the Nightsky Restores Dead Things by the Power of Sound\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe American trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist Jon Hassell, who died in 2021, was an international legend despite never having managed a popular breakthrough, mainly due to the fact that he almost never gave himself to the public. Jon Hassell was a musical visionary and pioneer, one who was inspired by ambient sounds and new music. He appreciated the music of avant-gardists such as Stockhausen, in whose Cologne school he also studied. He came into contact with Terry Riley and his minimalistic music early on and played on his first albums. Hassell was also a musically driven person, someone who had to get to the bottom of styles. Thus, he was intensively involved with Far Eastern, but especially Indian music. Using the ingredients he learned, he created a completely new way of playing on and with the trumpet. He created language-like modulated air currents flowing through the instrument to produce seemingly alien, microtonal sounds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe combined this technique with ethnic polyrhythms, electronic alienation, soundscapes and jazz to create his own style, which he called \"Fourth World\". \"We have this huge difference between the technically advanced 'northern' countries (First World) and the underdeveloped 'southern' countries (Third World). And clearly the future is going to develop as a hybrid, a mixture of the two. 'Fourth World Music' means combining the best of the old with the best of the new. But don't forget the old. Don't overlook the value of tradition.\" With this kind of music, he significantly influenced numerous emerging styles such as world music, nujazz or ambient. It is no mistake to say that without Hassell's ideas, these types of music would have taken a very different course. The list of influenced musicians and producers is long, starting with Brian Eno, who further developed his ambient concept as well as the multi-rhythmic approach after working with him. Eno passed the latter on to David Byrne (Talking Heads).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHassell's influence on the music world cannot be overestimated, even if he himself was always unimpressed by the praise. \"It's the invisible things that buzz around us. You just have to bring them to light and make them visible.\" INTUITION's 1987 \"The Surgeon of the Nightsky Restores Dead Things by the Power of Sound\" is undoubtedly one of his best works and we are proud to have it included in the catalogue. In a tried and tested association with Brian Eno (as producer), his first completely live-recorded album was released at that time. The individual pieces, which were recorded in Paris, Vancouver, Hamburg and Brussels, reflect the special atmosphere that made every (rare) Jon Hassell concert something extraordinary. The extremely delicate preparation and post-processing of the live material in the studio mix also makes it clear to the listener what subtle means Jon Hassell used to captivate his audience. In interaction with the audience, Hassell opens a window to the understanding of a music whose pulse and mood can be heard and perceived simultaneously in New York, Rangoon, Maracaibo, Paris, Palembang or Cologne. This album is an absolute work of sound-art, or as one listener once put it: \"An album with almost tender percussion and floating, artfully sprinkled synthesizer sounds and accompanied by an electronically alienated trumpet that is mysteriously bizarre and at the same time unspeakably gentle and soft - somehow beyond space and time.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJon Hassell - Trumpet\u003cbr\u003eRichard Horowitz - Synthesizer\u003cbr\u003eJean-Philippe Rykiel - Synthesizer\u003cbr\u003eJ.A. 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Co-produced with the legendary studio team of Brian Eno and Dainel Lanois.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the most acoustic of all Jon Hassell albums, \u003ci\u003eFlash of the Spirit \u003c\/i\u003eunites him with the African rhythm group Farafina, who provide a vivid rhythmic foundation for Hassell's trumpeted meanderings. a single, sustained note starts the proceedings and, one by one, awakens the other intruments, which pulse, rise, fall and return throughout the hour-long album.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn its release 32 years ago, \u003ci\u003eFlash of the Spirit \u003c\/i\u003ewas a revelation, a record that had no clear parallel for its encompassing sound. The album remains a testament to both the influence Hassell has quietly exerted on contemporary music, and the forward-looking traditionalism of Farafina, one of West Africa’s great rhythmic ensembles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tak:Til","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50478653833547,"sku":"312195","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50478654128459,"sku":"1082431","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b8bad0cb-bbc8-4fcd-bfac-df38fe22cc0e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727487700"},{"product_id":"seeing-through-sound-pentimento-volume-two","title":"Seeing Through Sound  (Pentimento Volume Two)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA companion piece to 2018’s \u003ci\u003eListening To Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e, this second volume in the pentimento series presents eight new tracks by the music visionary, continuing his lifelong exploration of the possibilities of recombination and musical gene-splicing. Pentimento is defined as the “reappearance in a painting of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over” and this is evident in the innovative production style that ‘paints with sound’ using overlapping nuances to create an undefinable and intoxicating new palette. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn classic Hassell fashion, the title can be interpreted in a myriad of ways, but perhaps the most pertinent at the moment is the human instinct to sing and play through a rain of difficulties. A future blues of indeterminate and ever-shifting shape. The album is buffered by two 8-minute plus epics at the beginning and the end - the hypnotic \u003ci\u003eFearless\u003c\/i\u003e with it’s metronomic, almost Can-like rhythm, and blurry, noir-ish texture of sound emerging like car headlights from the fog; mirrored at the end of the record by the beautiful sci-fi lullaby of \u003ci\u003eTimeless\u003c\/i\u003e, a track with a gaseous, billowing quality as electronic clicks and bubbles float over a landscape of shimmering, glacially paced complexity. The bridge between those two worlds is no less compelling, from the frantic, spidery IDM sketch of \u003ci\u003eReykjavik\u003c\/i\u003e to the collapsed-time ballad of \u003ci\u003eUnknown Wish\u003c\/i\u003e. 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