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Album Review: Jon Hassell – Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume 2)
When Brian Eno has touted you as ‘the most influential composer of the last 50 years’, when you’re credited as raising cultural awareness with your ground- breaking Fourth World Music, when you’ve spent over 80 years on this planet, you might be tempted to kick back a little, put your feet up and bask in …
Track: Legendary jazz fusion figure Jon Hassell releases ‘Unknown Wish’
Jon Hassell, trumpet player, sonic explorer and elder statesman of the ambient fusion scene has offered up another preview from his upcoming album ‘Seeing Through Sound/Pentimento Volume Two’. Unlike the previously released teaser the protracted and tensely metronomic ‘Fearless’, the new track ‘Unknown Wish’ offers up numerous possibilities in a succinct three -minute excursion. Moving …
Track: Jon Hassell – New album/preview track, ‘Fearless’
Pub Quiz question: Name a connection between La Monte Young, Terry Riley’s seminal record ‘In C’, Brian Eno, David Byrne, Bjork, Peter Gabriel, Ry Cooder, David Sylvian, Tears for Fears and Lloyd Cole plus his Commotions? Answer: they have all drawn on the talents of the essential trumpet player, composer and musical adventurer Jon Hassell. …