picture: last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street.
(Zagreb, dec 2019)

hassell/ no hassle

Wah-Wah Whispers

Frame

Calvary

DATE: 10nov97
CITY: Nice, France / Opera de Nice
EVENT: MANCA Festival / with Gregg Arreguin, Peter Freeman, Jamie Muhoberac

Radiobroadcast on Dutch National Radio

Manca New Music Festival Nice France

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Tribute To Jon Hassell (1937 – 2021)

Jon Hassell was one of the world’s most innovative musicians and one of 20th century most influential composers. His music has established a genre that goes beyond the notions of jazz, neo-classicism, new music or new age. Jon’s concept of Fourth World Music transcends the so-called ‘primitive’ and the so-called ‘futurist’ by seamlessly uniting traditional rhythmic and melodic concepts with recombinant aesthetics made possible by the creations of high technology. Fourth World music is the soundtrack to an imaginary future culture based on the mingling of ancient and modern, Western sophistication and Third World primitivism. Its music for nowhere / nowhen, a place that doesn’t actually exist yet. As Miles Davis, Jassell have transcended the Trumpet’s inherent limitations and use it as flexibly, as expressively and as intimately as a great singer uses his voice.

RIP Jon

Jon Hassell Tribute by Jaba Shavishvili [02.07.2021]

A tribute to Jon Hassell. "Few people can lay claim to inventing a totally new sonic terrain. Jon Hassell is one of them. Beginning in the 1970s, the composer and musician devised a method of playing the trumpet that expanded its reach. By feeding the trumpet through a harmonizer or other electronic effects, and playing it with a fluid, expressive style schooled via Indian classical music, he made music in a way that was closer to painting. He focused on creating lithe contours, luminous colors, billowing clouds of sound. Like Miles Davis, who vastly enlarged our notions of what the trumpet could be.Several decades ago, Hassell coined the term “Fourth World,” pointing the way for an abstract and fictional world music of “unknown and imaginary regions.” He released albums that mapped alternate geographies, even in their titles: Vernal Equinox (1977), Earthquake Island (1978), Dream Theory in Malaya: Fourth World Volume 2 (1981), and Aka/Darbari/Java: Magic Realism (1983), among them.Hassell studied under the wily German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen for two years, but spent a far longer time working in New York under the famous late Indian singer Pandit Pran Nath, who was also the guru to La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Marian Zazeela, and many others. Hassell learned to play ragas from Pran Nath. “I wasn’t prepared to be the first raga trumpet player; I was too old to go that route,” he told me when I interviewed him some years ago. “So I had to bring in the things that I loved. [I thought,] ‘Why can’t I put this together with this?’He moved from practicing ragas to crafting his own compositions. “I was drawing those beautiful curves I learned with Pran Nath—studying this whole thing about ‘shape making,’ ” he continued. “He used to use that phrase—meaning that you’re drawing calligraphy in air. It’s not like a piano, da da da [sings a scale] . . . Drawing the curved lines of a background grid is so much more of a subtle way of approaching things than Western music, which had been locked into this piano keyboard, equal temperament kind of thing. It was a big revelation.”- Geeta Dayal for 4Columns

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Doctor Earth (Jon Hassell Special) @ The Lot Radio 07 - 05 - 2021

Haven't done this kind of thing for a while. Got to get back into it. First attempt after months. Hope to become more fluent again soon.
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20140822 Presence March

Tribal Dance

Jon Hassell (2009) Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street.

One day on Earth 200 millions years ago ...
Nothing but one take of electric guitar live looping.
Done on a prehistoric looper: the Repeater

Ten_Roleplays

Fauna Triassic

Lunar track with edited live looping on guitar.
Eno like triphop ?

Some Stupid Haiku

Satori on the roof ...
Track that takes its time to develop and then turns straight to infinity ...  Ecstatic 4th world like guitar solo at the end,

Rooftop Shifts

Know Hassell Project is inspired by trumpeter Jon Hassell. We do improvised music labeled as Fourth World Music, a term for combining ancient and modern sounds to make an exciting present. While we do not cover any of Hassell's material we do acknowledge his style as a source of our own unique music.

Paths of Winter

Live improv 2

Lunapark

Uno (2010 Version) [feat. Robert Fripp, Hernern Diego Nuñez, Takeshi Nishimoto & Lenka Župková]

Taken from Jan Bang's debut album "...And Poppies From Kandahar".

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http://www.samadhisound.com/janbang

Passport Control

Jon hassell and bluescreen - 11 - the gods, they must be crazy

Keeping the ever-present influence of the sea in focus, Poirier projects himself to a fantasised coastline, imagining a landscape in flux, continuously reconfigured by the movement of water and those that inhabit its space...

A1. Thalassocratie
A2. Longe-côte
A3. Trace palmaire
A4. Le bématiste
A5. Sablage

B1. Hotel Nota
B2. Pénombre
B3. Du rocher
B4. Ekphrasis
B5. Raccordement
B6. Balayage 

Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering.
Release date: August 2020

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