Jon Hassell Listening To Pictures Pentimento Volume One
First new album in nine years by a musical visionary and hugely influential figure in new music. Continuing his lifelong exploration of the possibilities of the studio, 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 careful overlaying of sound, or a carefully timed reveal of the delicate bones pinning the frame of a track together. Smeared, gauzy, gorgeous atmospherics to perfectly soundtrack a vertical listening experience
- 1. Dreaming
- 2. Picnic
- 3. Slipstream
- 4. Al Kongo Udu
- 5. Pastorale Vassant
- 6. Manga Scene
- 7. Her First Rain
- 8. Ndeya