Title: Listening To Pictures (pentimento Volume One) Artist: Jon Hassell Label: Ndeya Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5060384612591 Genre: Electronic Release Date: 2018-06-08 Number of Discs: 1 Additional Details: JEWEL CASE PACKAGING, BOOKLET
Listening To Pictures: Pentimento Volume One is the first new album in nine years by a musical visionary and hugely influential figure in new music. Forty years since it's 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.
Tracks: 1.1 Dreaming 1.2 Picnic 1.3 Slipstream 1.4 Al Kongo Udu 1.5 Pastorale Vassant 1.6 Manga Scene 1.7 Her First Rain 1.8 Ndeya
