Jon Hassell - Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One) (Vinyl)

Jon Hassell - Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One) (Vinyl) First new album in nine years by a musical visionary and hugely influential figure in new music. Forty years since its 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 ØpentimentoÙ 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. TRACKLISTING 1. Dreaming 2. Picnic 3. Slipstream 4. Al Kongo Udu 5. Pastorale Vassant 6. Manga Scene 7. Her First Rain 8. Ndeya