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The Surgeon Of The Nightsky Restored Dead Things By The Power Of Sound
Ravinia/Vancouver (20:44)
Paris I (5:44)
Hamburg (7:03)
Brussels (10:53)
Paris II (8:36)
Review: The Surgeon of the Nightsky Restores Dead Things by the Power of Sound, to give its full title, is one of the less talked-about Jon Hassell albums, but it's just as worthy of celebration. The Fourth World pioneer and raga trumpeter had established his fundamental sound by the late 80s, and this album works so brilliantly as a demonstration of that sound in action. Hassell's distinctive treated trumpet remains the central focus, while undulating rhythms and atmospheres unfurl around it as we're quickly buffeted away to strange and distant places. The mood Hassell captured on his finest works is a rare and unique thing - intense and subtle, ominous and calming, mysterious and yet so immediately appealing.
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The Living City: Live At The Winter Garden
The Living City: Live At The Winter Garden (gatefold 2xLP + MP3 download code in spot-varnished sleeve)
Cat: NDEYA 8LP. Rel: 16 Feb 23
Ituri (10:43)
Alchemistry (9:31)
Adedara Rising (10:12)
Mashujaa (8:54)
Paradise Now (9:51)
Nightsky (16:41)
Review: The Jon Hassell retrospective series from Ndeya Records continues with 'The Living City', which captures the late composer at his creative peak, performing live at the renowned Winter Garden concert hall in New York in the 1980s. Forming something of an escape from his jazz-influenced ambient works, this performance instead shows off Hassell's interest in the popularity of sampling hip-hop at the time. With influences from Public Enemy to Teo Macero, this is a whirlwind of sampled noise and snippets, which all continually loop and circle back on each other in a mood of mild yet evocative madness.
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Psychogeography: Zones Of Feeling
Psychogeography: Zones Of Feeling (gatefold 2xLP + MP3 download code)
Cat: NDEYA 9LP. Rel: 16 Feb 23
Aerial View (2:33)
Neon Night (Rain) (5:19)
Cityism Superdub (4:34)
Harambe (3:35)
Freeway (4:59)
Cuba Libre (3:35)
Midnight (5:12)
Waterfront District (3:21)
Favela (2:57)
Emerald City (5:51)
Cloud-Shaped Time (5:49)
Review: Jon Hassell's later albums were increasingly influenced by the post-jazz composer's favourite philosophies and thinkers. 'City: Works Of Fiction' - reworked into 'Psychogeography: Zones Of Feeling' here - is a strong case in point. Inspired by the work of French anarchist Guy Debord, who wrote extensively on topics such as surrealism, anti-consumerism and art, culminating in an umbrella philosophy known as situationism, Hassell's later works are perfect hazes, indeterminate ambient jazz storms through which to experience the past via psychic explorations of one's immediate surroundings.
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Vernal Equinox (reissue)
Cat: NDEYA 2LP. Rel: 20 Mar 20
Toucan Ocean (3:50)
Viva Shona (7:05)
Hex (6:22)
Blues Nile (9:52)
Vernal Equinox (21:54)
Caracas Night September 11, 1975 (1:55)
Review: Reissues don't come more significant than this. Jon Hassell's work new and old has been enjoying plentiful appraisal in recent years, with his outlook on Fourth World music finding fresh relevance with a modern crop of artists. While much of his catalogue has been given a fresh lease of life, they've been saving one of his most seminal works. Vernal Equinox was originally released in 1978, one of Hassell's first albums alongside Earthquake Island. It's essentially the blueprint for outernational music - a heady brew of global signifiers stewing together in one unclassifiable pot marked out only by Hassell's inimitable trumpet style. From ambient heads to sonic explorers, you won't want to miss the chance to own this most precious of albums.
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Seeing Through Sound: Pentimento Volume Two
Cat: NDEYA 7LP. Rel: 24 Jul 20
Fearless (7:59)
Moons Of Titan (4:14)
Unknown Wish (2:50)
Delicado (4:01)
Reykjavik (2:15)
Cool Down Coda (1:40)
Lunar (6:23)
Timeless (8:10)
Review: Two years ago, Jon Hassell made more than a few jaws drop with "Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume 1)", the genre-bending trumpeter and composer's first studio album in nine years. On that album, he effortlessly updated his trademark "Fourth World" sound - a decidedly cosmic, impossible-to-pigeonhole mix of traditional, otherworldly, exotic and cutting-edge sounds - for a new era. He takes a similar approach on this "companion album", somehow fusing experimental jazz, disparate global sounds, ambient, electronica and digi-dub in a myriad of thrilling, boundary blurring ways. It's a startling piece of work and one that defiantly rewards repeat listens, but then we expect nothing less from someone of Hassell's skill and standing. Recommended.
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Listening To Pictures: Pentimento Volume One
Cat: NDEYA 1LP. Rel: 08 Jun 18
Dreaming (6:04)
Picnic (5:57)
Slipstream (2:55)
Al-Kongon Udu (5:10)
Pastorale Vassant (3:58)
Manga Scene (5:44)
Her First Rain (1:38)
Ndeya (7:07)
Review: Since the release of Jon Hassell's last album in 2009, there's been an upsurge in interest in the "Fourth World" style he pioneered alongside Brian Eno way back in 1980. It seems rather fitting, then, that the 81 year-old trumpeter turned experimentalist has returned to show the pretenders how it should be done. Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume 1) is every bit as alluring as you'd expect, with Hassell delivering thrilling new soundscapes that pull the Fourth World template (think combinations of American minimalism, ethnic styles from around the world, advanced electronics and manipulated trumpet sounds) in a variety of directions. It's in turns trippy, hypnotic, beautiful, poignant and otherworldly, with each ambient composition being accompanied by another where Hassell draws influence from contemporary IDM or drowsy experimental jazz.
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