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The Living City

by Jon Hassell

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    Gatefold 2LP with spot gloss cover and printed inner sleeves. Available on vinyl for the first time. Sleevenotes contain commentary from Hassell, Eno and new interviews with some of the other musicians involved, alongside archival images from the period and download card for the full album.

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    Second Edition with alternate off-white cover colour, 68pp perfect bound 5x8” paperback, cover printed on 250gsm recycled paper, body 100gsm recycled natural paper.

    A collection of Jon Hassell’s writing about his own music, a series of dairy-like entries spanning a period of over thirty years.

    Designed by Collin Fletcher and presented as a 5 x 8” perfect bound volume on recycled paper stock throughout.

    “In trying to fully understand anyone, or anything, I’ve always wanted to get a feel for the physical and psychic landscape of the time: what kind of light was in the room or in the forest, what sounds and smells were in the air, what families and friends looked like, whether there were animals and children around, what were they eating, what was funny, what was sexy, what was sad—in other words, the “atmospherics” of a situation.”

    Includes essays and notes about the albums Vernal Equinox, Earthquake Island, Possible Musics, Dream Theory In Malaya, Aka-Dabari-Java, City: Works Of Fiction, Fascinoma, Maarifa Street and Listening To Pictures.
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Ituri 10:45
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Alchemistry 09:43
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Mashujaa 13:32
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Paradise Now 05:01
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Nightsky 18:38

about

Part of a series of three new archival releases from Ndeya that showcase Jon Hassell and group in the late 1980s exploring a radical tangent on his Fourth World sensibility.

The Living City captures the Jon Hassell Group in September 1989 performing as part of an audio-visual installation inside the World
Financial Center Winter Garden in New York City, with Brian Eno mixing the band live. Eno had designed an audio-visual installation in the 10-story glass-vaulted pavilion, inspired by the hunting, ceremony, animals, and weather sounds of the Ba-Ya-Ka pygmy tribe from Cameroon gathered by Louis Sarno.

Jon Hassell and his then band, the musicians who had recently recorded the City: Works Of Fiction album, played in the Winter Garden Atrium over the course of three nights, with Eno mixing the band live with the installation sounds.

The audio presented here is an edited selection from the performance on the second night, available on vinyl for the first time, cut across four sides by Stefan Betke aka Pole. Gatefold vinyl edition includes download card and extensive sleevenotes.

credits

released February 17, 2023

JON HASSELL trumpet, keyboards
GREGG ARREGUIN guitar
JEFF RONA keyboards, sampled percussion
ADAM RUDOLPH acoustic and sampled percussion
DANIEL SCHWARTZ bass

BRIAN ENO live mix

All compositions by Jon Hassell, Warp Publishing on behalf of Nyen Music. Audio edited by Jon Hassell. Mastered by Noel Summerville at 3345. Lacquer cut by Stefan Betke at Scape. Designed by Peter Salmon-Lomas. Essay and interviews by Jason Gross.

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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

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