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Jon Hassell: Music Is Invisible (Pentimento Volume Three)
by Maciej Stasiowski
When Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume One), Jon Hassell's first record in nine years, which was announced back in 2018, a new era in the trumpeter's career seemed to have opened. Furthermore, the LP came with its own methodology. The cut-and-paste retrieval of archival material overlaid with more recent instrumental parts promised a polyvalent and invigorating body of new work. The approach meant to evoke pentimento technique in painting--the bleeding-through of previous elements of the sonic painting onto the surface ...
Continue Reading...Jon Hassell: Seeing Through Sound: Pentimento Volume Two
by Mark Sullivan
Visionary trumpeter-composer Jon Hassell presents another gift from his late career. The third release on his own Ndeya label, it follows the re-release of his debut album Vernal Equinox (Ndeya, 2020) and is a sequel to Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One) (Ndeya, 2018). The structure is a bit different, still eight tracks, but organized as a series of Scenes. The personnel is more diverse as well. In addition to a core group of Rick Cox (electric guitar, bass clarinet, ...
Continue Reading...Jon Hassell: Seeing Through Sound: Pentimento Volume Two
by Chris May
By the time even the most radical musicians reach their ninth decade, few are any longer making cutting-edge work. But trumpeter, electronicist and composer Jon Hassell, a collaborator with Terry Riley and La Monte Young in the 1960s and the creator of Fourth World music in the 1970s, remains as venturesome as ever. Much of Seeing Through Sound: Pentimento Volume Two was recorded during the sessions for Hassell's lustrous Listening To Pictures: Pentimento Volume One (Ndeya, 2018). ...
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