Listening To Pictures | Pentimento Volume One

First new album in nine years by a musical visionary and hugely influential figure in new music. Forty years since its creation, Jon Hassell's Fourth World aesthetic remains a powerful influence on modern electronic music. Continuing his lifelong exploration of the possibilities of recombination and musical gene-splicing, fragments of performance are sampled, looped, overdubbed and re-arranged into beguiling unexpected shapes. Hassell applies the painterly technique of ‘pentimento’ to the arrangements, teasing out texture by the overlaying of sound upon sound, or a carefully timed reveal of the delicate bones pinning the frame of a track together.

Tracks

1~1~ Dreaming
1~2~ Picnic
1~3~ Slipstream
1~4~ Al Kongo Udu
1~5~ Pastorale Vassant
1~6~ Manga Scene
1~7~ Her First Rain
1~8~ Ndeya

Details

Format: CD
Artist: Jon Hassell
Release Date: 24 July 2020
Genre: Dance & Electronic
Label: Ndeya
Distributor: Inertia Music