more from
Ndeya
We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two)

by Jon Hassell

/
  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Single 140g vinyl LP in a full colour printed sleeve with printed inner. Includes download card.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      £20 GBP or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Digipak with 4 page booklet

    Includes unlimited streaming of Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      £10 GBP or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £8 GBP  or more

     

1.
Fearless 08:02
2.
3.
Unknown Wish 02:57
4.
Delicado 04:02
5.
Reykjavik 02:16
6.
Cool Down 01:45
7.
Lunar 06:32
8.
Timeless 08:19

about

“Listen as if you were being told a secret” - Federico Fellini

A companion piece to 2018’s Listening To Pictures, this second volume in the pentimento series presents eight new tracks by the music visionary, continuing his lifelong exploration of the possibilities of recombination and musical gene-splicing. Pentimento is defined as the “reappearance in a painting of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over” and this is evident in the innovative production style that ‘paints with sound’ using overlapping nuances to create an undefinable and intoxicating new palette.

In classic Hassell fashion, the title can be interpreted in a myriad of ways, but perhaps the most pertinent at the moment is the human instinct to sing and play through a rain of difficulties. A future blues of indeterminate and ever-shifting shape. The album is buffered by two 8-minute plus epics at the beginning and the end - the hypnotic “Fearless” with it’s metronomic, almost Can-like rhythm, and blurry, noir-ish texture of sound emerging like car headlights from the fog; mirrored at the end of the record by the beautiful sci-fi lullaby of “Timeless”, a track with a gaseous, billowing quality as electronic clicks and bubbles float over a landscape of shimmering, glacially paced complexity. The bridge between those two worlds is no less compelling, from the frantic, spidery IDM sketch of “Reykjavik” to the collapsed-time ballad of “Unknown Wish”. Whilst containing seeds of classic ‘fourth world’ fusion, this record finds the artist still questing to create new forms and mutations of music, a thrilling window into what music could sound like in a world to come.

credits

released July 24, 2020

SCENE 1 (8:04)
FEARLESS
Jon Hassell - trumpet, electronics
Rick Cox - electric guitar, bass clarinet, sample orchestration
Eivind Aarset - electric guitar, sampler
John Von Seggern - electric bass, synth, keyboard samples
Kheir-Eddine M’Kachiche - violin, sampler

Arnaud Mercier - recording engineer, Paris Radio Studio
and Minoroten Kirche, Vienna, Austria

SCENE 2 (4.23)
MOONS OF TITAN
Jon Hassell - trumpet, electronics
Michel Redolfi - electronic textures
Christoph Harbonnier (Lightwave)
Christian Wittman (Lightwave)

Arnaud Mercier - recording engineer
Recording Studio, Radio France, Paris

SCENE 3 (2:53)
UNKNOWN WISH
Jon Hassell - trumpet, keyboard
Peter Freeman - electric bass
Rick Cox - guitar
John Von Seggern - sampler, percussion

SCENE 4 (4:02)
DELICADO
Jon Hassell - trumpet, keyboard
Rick Cox - guitar, percusion, samples
Hugh Marsh - violin orchestrations
John Von Seggern - sampler, percussion

SCENE 5 (2:16)
REYKJAVIK
Jon Hassell - keyboard
Rick Cox - guitar with electronics
Jan Bang - live sampling
Peter Freeman - bass

SCENE 6 (1:41)
COOL DOWN CODA
Jon Hassell - keyboard
John Von Seggern - keyboard, electronics
Rick Cox - guitar, electronics

SCENE 7 (6:38)
LUNAR
Jon Hassell - trumpet, chordal harmonics
Rick Cox - guitar, choral electronic background spatialization.
Sam Minae - rhythmized bass samples, percussion.

Background textures inspired by
Christopher O’Riley’s performance of
Guirlandes (Garlands) Prelude for Piano by Alexandere Scriabin

SCENE 8 (8:11)
TIMELESS
Jon Hassell - keyboard, electronics
Hugh Marsh - electric violin and orchestration
John Von Seggern bass, keyboard, percussion samples
Adam Rudolph - African drums and orchestration

Produced by Jon Hassell
Co-produced by Rick Cox
Executive Producer - Matthew Jones

Recording Engineer, Production Consultant - Arnaud Mercier
Co-production, Moons of Titan - Michel Redolfi
Recorded at Studio Venice, California

Art direction: Dan Kuehn, Arien Valizadeh, Taska Cleveland
Album art sources, moon-and-stars motif courtesy the Mati Klarwein family

Mastering - Al Carlson, New York
Additional mastering - Arnaud Mercier
All compositions - Jon Hassell / Nyen Music via Warp Publishing

A previous version of “Timeless” appeared
on the Dreamy Harbor compilation on Tresor.

...And the Ship Sails On, 1983 (E La Nave Va)

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Jon Hassell Los Angeles, California

Jon Hassell pioneered a musical ethos he dubbed 'Fourth World', a mixture of traditional Indian Vocal style - which Hassell adapted for the trumpet - and advanced electronic techniques, a style which manifested itself in his seminal first album 'Vernal Equinox'. His career since then has seen many influential solo works as well as collaborations with Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, amongst others. ... more

contact / help

Contact Jon Hassell

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Jon Hassell, you may also like: