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by Doug Collette
In making Vernal Equinox available on vinyl for the first time in forty-two years and on CD for the first time in three decades, Jon Hassell's 1977 album has been fully remastered for its updated release on the artist's own Ndeya label. This first commercially released work by Hassell was, by many accounts, an early glimpse into a sound that would later go on to be known as 'Fourth World,' a mix of electronics, jazz, classical Indian music field recordings ...
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by Mark Sullivan
Visionary trumpeter-composer Jon Hassell is one of the architects of what has come to be called World Music: his own preferred term is Fourth World, which he described as “a unified primitive/futuristic sound combining features of world ethnic styles with advanced electronic techniques." Vernal Equinox was his first commercial album release, originally on Lovely Music in 1977. The second release on Hassell's own Ndeya label—following the 2018 Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)—this reissue makes the album available on vinyl ...
read moreDavid Rosenboom: Brainwave Music
by AAJ Italy Staff
A metà tra eccentricità e neuroscienza applicata, la Brainwave Music di David Rosenboom è una delle perle nascoste di certa sperimentazione USA anni ’70. Il concetto, a spiegarlo, è semplice: prendere gli impulsi elettronici del cervello umano, amplificarli tramite elettrodi applicati alla testa dell’“esecutore”, trasferirli su un sintetizzatore e vedere un po’ quello che viene fuori. E cosa può venirne fuori, se non un suono elettronico di volta in volta statico e oscillante, cerebrale nel senso più puro del termine? ...
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