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Jon Hassell: Music Is Invisible (Pentimento Volume Three)

Read "Music Is Invisible (Pentimento Volume Three)" reviewed by Maciej Stasiowski

by Maciej Stasiowski
October 6, 2026

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 ...

Article: Reassessing

Vernal Equinox

by Doug Collette
May 10, 2020

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 ...

Article: Album Review

Jon Hassell: Vernal Equinox

Read "Vernal Equinox" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
April 3, 2020

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 ...

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