Brilliant. A Tape Op podcast! So obvious no one ever saw it!

Love his Comment Re Record Companies And Doing the Same Thing on Every Album! Very Very True

Excellent. Love the ambience in the background as well, keeps the momentum going

the heavens have opened now i see the light and hear the looming fusinon BE

The interview just ends so abruptly! Was there more?

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JON HASSELL [March 22, 1937 - June 26, 2021]

(track - title - artists - album)

1 -  Adios Saturn - Jon Hassell - Earthquake Island

2 - African Queen - Ry Cooder / Jon Hassell - Hollow Bamboo

3 - Bathtub - Jon Hassell & The MDH Band - The Million Dollar Hotel

4 - Before And After Charm (La Notte) - Jon Hassell - OHM+: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music 

5 - Clairvoyance - Jon Hassell - Last Night The Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes In The Street

6 - Courage - Jon Hassell w/Brian Eno - Dream Theory In Malaya

7 - Datura - Jon Hassell - Fascinoma

8 - Don't Invent Me -  Mandalay with Jon Hassell - Solace

9 - Elsewhere Is a Negative Mirror (Some Truths Version) - Jon Hassell - Remixes EP

10 - Empire i - Jon Hassell - Aka Darbari Java [Magic Realism]

11 - Flathead One More Time - Ry Cooder with Jon Hassell - I, Flathead

12 - Flicks - Frou Frou & Jon Hassell - Details

13 - The Gods, They Must Be Crazy - Jon Hassell and Blue Screen - Dressing For Pleasure

14 - Hain't It Funny - k d lang, jane siberry & Jon Hassell - Drag

15 - Hamburg - Jon Hassell - The Surgeon Of The Nightsky Restores Dead Things By The Power Of Sound

16 - Ho Avuto Una Visione, Anch'io! - Jon Hassell - Sulla Strada

17 - Houses in Motion  - Talking Heads with Jon Hassell - Remain In Light

18 - I See You Again - Stina Nordenstam & Jon Hassell - And She Closed Her Eyes

19 - Inversion (Bandshell Remix) - Jon Hassell - Greater Lengths Re-Works

20 - Lam Lam - Baaba Maal with Jon Hassell and Brian Eno - Nomad Soul

21 - Miracle Steps - Jon Hassell - Power Spot

22 - Night Moves (Fear) - Jon Hassell & Farafina - Flash of the Spirit

23 - Rising Thermal 14º 16' N; 32º 28' E - Jon Hassell / Brian Eno  Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics

24 - Scintilla - Jon Hassell - Last Night The Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes In The Street

25 - Shadow - Brian Eno with Jon Hassell - On Land: Ambient #4

26 - Slipstream - Jon Hassell - Listening To Pictures (Pentimento, Vol. 1)

27 - Streetfaxx - Jon Hassell - Greater Lengths: All Saints Compilation

28 - Tikal - Jon Hassell - City: Works Of Fiction

29 - Toucan Ocean - Jon Hassell - Vernal Equinox

30 - Warm Shift - Jon Hassell - Maarifa Street

31 - Words With The Shaman Pt. 1: Ancient Evening - David Sylvian & Jon Hassell - Words With The Shaman

32 - Zeitgeist - Jon Hassell and Blue Screen - Dressing For Pleasure

JON HASSELL

British musician Jo Johnson’s debut solo album for Further Records, Weaving, betokens an exciting presence in the world of minimalist composition. 

“Ancestral Footsteps” opens the LP with cascades of cyclical harp-like sounds, an homage to one of Johnson’s primary inspirations: Alice Coltrane. Channelling rigorous new age and mesmerizing Riley-esque/Reichian minimalism, the piece accrues heft and intensity, with occasional bursts of synthetic, tribal clapping until it fades out with cinematic flourish. The title track gradually alters simple guitar and keyboard phrases, along with a chiming motif that multiplies in a hall of mirrors. The disorientating arpeggios form moiré patterns against colossal bass notes. The mood lightens considerably with “Words Came After Music,” whose sweeping strings and drones could take you to whatever your idea of heaven is. Interestingly, the title of the piece is inspired by an anthropological theory Johnson stumbled across that musical ability predates language in humans. With its sombre, undulating synths and lustrous highs and lows, “In the Shadow of The Workhouse” plumbs profound emotional depths. Epic closer “Silver Threads” starts as an almost silent retreat in the vein of Laurie Spiegel's Appalachian Grove or Eno and Budd's The Pearl with the faint hum and buzz of telegraph wires, until four minutes in a stoic pulse and suspenseful chiming motif arise, buttressed by glowing synth sighs and the LP's only percussive thumps (think Incunabula era Autechre). 

While inspired by the "serious music" of Arvo Pärt, Wim Mertens and others, Johnson’s mandalas of tone mantras offer a playful, DIY sense of adventure, as you might expect from the former guitarist for incendiary punk group Huggy Bear and a long-term co-organizer of London’s Bleep43 techno club night and label. Weaving condenses Johnson's long love affair with free jazz, minimalism and electronic music and this unique ambient composition is invested with powerful emotional resonance.

Weaving

This interview with Brian Eno was not originally intended to be made available for listening. It has been cleaned up and lightly edited, but has some external and peripheral sounds including some cell phone interference, chairs banging around and jack hammering street repairs! In the spirit of Eno himself, these "ambient" additions were left in for interview continuity. Eno and Peter Chilver’s regenerative music app "Bloom" was used for the bed behind the interview.

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Disclaimer: This audio recording was not originally tracked with the intent of using for a podcast. It was recorded solely for transcription for our print interview (see issue #85). Please forgive any balance issues, background sounds, and lack of clarity.

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Emotional Rescue is delighted to present the first of two EPs from British ‘80s band Furniture, starting with their much sought-after, six-song “mini-album” - as they were known then - which has recently been rediscovered by a new generation of DJs and collectors. 

 “Transatlantic Cable” compares the clichés of a certain type of American romance - Bogart, Sinatra, Dean - to the reality of life in West London. “They’re On Me” is probably one of very few pop songs to feature double bass and the word “newsagent”, while “Robert Nightman’s Story” is powered by a riff on marimba and abrasive rhythm guitar.

 “I Miss You”, a torch song so good you’d think Julie London might have cut it.  A highlight for many is “Why Are We In Love”.  This track is a key reason for the revival of interest in the band, with pattering rhythm part and the sweet clarinet melody, creating an atmosphere that has attracted a following among discerning DJs.  “A Letter To Myself” introduced the band’s new, expanded line-up adding Sally Still (bass, vocals) and Maya Gilder (keyboards), which would endure until the band stopped in 1990.

B2. Furniture - Why Are We In Love

Espen Eriksen Trio - Back To Base

Olta Karawane show continues with Part 2: Marc Ribot, Arto Lindsay, John Zorn, Steve Beresford and other hungry friends of John are waiting for him on the shore.

Marc Ribot, Arto Lindsay, John Zorn, Steve Beresford And Others.....[Olta Karawane]

Dutch composer Rutger Hoedemaekers makes his debut solo release with a stunning album that marks the culmination of a decade spent in the hyper-creative studio environment he co-founded in Berlin, including four years working closely alongside Jóhann Jóhannsson. Sonically rich, emotionally deep, and immaculately handled, 'The Age Of Oddities’ showcases a brilliant new talent, its cinematic eloquence bearing witness to Rutger’s experiences composing for film alongside Oscar-winner Hildur Guðnadóttir and Jóhannsson, for whom the album is partly a eulogy.

Whilst paying homage to Jóhannsson, ‘The Age Of Oddities’ sees Hoedemaekers forging his own sound and vision. It’s a bold and forward-thinking record, with a rich, hybrid sound seeing vocals processed and blurred alongside brass parts and a wall of strings shadowed by Rutger’s understated, textural electronics. Beautifully scored, immaculately performed and recorded, the album utilises the power of Budapest Art Orchestra’s 23-piece string ensemble conducted and co-orchestrated by Viktor Orri Árnason, alongside vocals (Kira Kira, Theatre of Voices’ Else Torp and Laura Jansen), horn (Morris Kliphuis), trombone (Hilary Jeffery) and violin (Una Sveinbjarnardóttir and Viktor Orri Árnason), with Hoedemaekers contributing trumpet, piano, keyboard and electronics.

Born out of a shared creative environment during a time of personal as well as social change, ‘The Age Of Oddities’ is a powerful and emotive work that closes a deeply productive yet also dark and heavy period for its creator.  It sees Hoedemaekers finally stepping out into the spotlight after many years working behind the scenes, revealing a hugely talented new composer who is surely one to watch in coming years.

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