Jon Hassell.Listening to Pictures.

Released: 8th June 2018
Label: Ndeya
Genre: Electronic, Jazz
Style: Ambient, Contemporary Jazz, Leftfield

pen·ti·men·to / noun
Reappearance in a painting of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over.

First new album in nine years by a musical visionary and hugely influential figure in new music. Forty years since its creation, Jon Hassell's Fourth World aesthetic remains a powerful influence on modern electronic music. Continuing his lifelong exploration of the possibilities of recombination and musical gene-splicing, 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 overlaying of sound upon sound, or a carefully timed reveal of the delicate bones pinning the frame of a track together.

The release of this new album also sees the launch of Jon’s own label, Ndeya (pronounced “in-day-ya”), which will be a home for new work as well as well as selected archival releases, including re-presses of classic sides and some astonishing unreleased music.

Tracklisting

A1: Dreaming

A2: Picnic

A3: Slipstream

A4: Al-Kongo Udu

B1: Pastorale Vassant

B2: Manga Scene

B3: Her First Rain

B4: Ndeya