Jon Hassell Listening To Pictures Pentimento Volume One

Release date:
June 8, 2018
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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

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