Further Fictions by Jon Hassell
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.
Further Fictions is a double CD anthology of the music on the vinyl editions, with a disc devoted to each album in hardbound book style
packaging, and an extensive booklet containing sleevenotes and archival images.
The first disc ‘The Living City’ documents a performance at the Winter Garden in New York City on 17 September 1989, mixed live by Brian Eno. The second disc ‘Psychogeography’ sees Jon taking a Teo Macero style scalpel to the original session tapes of the 'City: Works Of Fiction' album and coming up with a situationist inspired alternate version of the City album. Beguilingly different takes and the raw excitement of early demos are skillfully sequenced to concoct a different dimension of sounds from the original release.
Comes with 32 page booklet featuring extensive liner notes and photos.
Tracklist
Credits
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 on Disc One
All compositions written by Jon Hassell, except “Harambe” by Jon Hassell and Adam Rudolph. Jon Hassell published by Warp Publishing on behalf of Nyen Music. Audio edited by Jon Hassell. Mastered by Noel Summerville at 3345. Designed by Peter Salmon-Lomas. Photos by Zhenya Nesterov. Jon Hassell notes written 2014. Other interviews and notes by Jason Gross 2022.
Original source material on Disc Two produced by Jon Hassell and co-produced by Arreguin, Rona, Rudolph, Schwartz and Andronis. Studio recordings from Group IV Studios, Hollywood, June 1989, mixed by Harry Andronis. Sampling and programming by Jeff Rona, with additional sampling by Richard Henderson, Bob Bielecki, Connie Kieltyka and Jean-Philippe Rykiel.
License
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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.