Jon Hassell – The Surgeon of the Nightsky Restores Dead Things by the Power of Sound (1987/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:30 minutes | 551 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Tribal, Future Jazz, World Fusion
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Intuition
Recorded live and mixed by none other than Brian Eno, ‘The Surgeon…’ is one of Fourth World inaugurator Hassell’s most breathtaking full-lengths, capturing the physicality of his performance and matching his lopsided trumpet work with hypnotic synths and ghostly, muted percussion. If you’ve not jumped into his catalog before, this is the perfect starting point!
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Ronu Majumdar, Ry Cooder, Jon Hassell, Abhijit Banerjee – Hollow Bamboo (2000)
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 43:53 minutes | Scans included | 1,79 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 781 MB
Ronu is an outstanding flutist of the Hindustani tradition who has previously been featured on recordings with Jon Hassell, Simon Shaheen & Bela Fleck. “Hollow Bamboo”, a collaboration with Ry Cooder on electric guitar & Turkish oud & Jon Hassell on trumpet, is a mesmerizing blend of Indian folk melodies & electric genre defying compositions.
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Jon Hassell – Fascinoma (1999)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:00:37 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: World, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Water Lily Acoustics
Ry Cooder summons fourth world trumpeter Jon Hassell, jazz star pianist Jacky Terrasson, and classical Indian flutist Ronu Majumdar, to a big resonant church in Santa Barbara and creates “tone-magic” — a bath in the sheer beauty of sound expressed in a kind of global, space-age Duke Ellington palette. Music without a price for an audience that can’t be bought.
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Jon Hassell – Fascinoma (1999)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 60:34 minutes | Artwork | 2,62 GB
“With this record, I locate myself squarely within that aspect of music which is fundamental and irreducible: the beauty of the sound,” states Jon Hassell in the liner notes for Fascinoma. Hassell, of course, has spent his career emphasizing the beauty of sound and how recordings capture that better than any other medium. The difference is, with Fascinoma, he weaves unique interpretations of standards like “Nature Boy” and “Caravan” into his own sonic tapestry. Hassell has intended the album as a tribute to the “musical exotica” he heard as a child “on the radio or in movie scores,” and his statement unlocks many doors to his music. Echoes of early exotica and evocative jazz can be heard throughout the album, but Hassell pieces it together in an odd, original fashion. Since the record is so quiet, some listeners may dismiss it as mere mood music. This is a valid point; the album creates its own unique, wide open aural vistas. But listen closer and there’s some truly startling interplay and ideas, not only from Hassell but from his supporting musicians (who include Ry Cooder and Jacky Terrasson). At times, the gauzy recording can be a little impenetrable, as can the challenging minimalism of the compositions and arrangements themselves. But if the music intrigues you, it’s hard not to get swept up in it.
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Jon Hassell – Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:12 minutes | 287 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ndeya
A companion piece to 2018’s Listening To Pictures, 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.
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Jon Hassell – Last Night The Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes In The Street (2009)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:48 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | Artwork: Digital booklet | @ ECM
American trumpet player and composer returns to ECM with a stand-out album. Jon is known for his influence in contemporary music and his unusual electronic manipulation of the trumpet sound which has been lauded and imitated by many. He has collaborated with the likes of Brian Eno (who produced his first ECM record, the iconic Power Spot, Peter Gabriel (Scorsese Soundtrack Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ), he co-composed the electronic theme music for the television show The Practice, and still makes guest appearances on many albums (e.g. 2008 Ani DiFranco). The music and Jon s background will provide sizeable opportunities to market the record to a wide audience encompassing lovers of electronic, jazz, and world music. (more…)
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