Jon Hassell's Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One). Available here on 140 Gram LP and Standard CD.
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.
LP - 140 Gram LP in a full colour printed sleeve with printed inner and Download.
CD - Housed in jewel case with printed outer slipcase and 10 page booklet.
Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)
Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)
Jon Hassell's Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One). Available here on 140 Gram LP and Standard CD.
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.
LP - 140 Gram LP in a full colour printed sleeve with printed inner and Download.
CD - Housed in jewel case with printed outer slipcase and 10 page booklet.