Jon Hassell - Dreaming

First track from the new Jon Hassell album ’Listening To Pictures’ (Pentimento Volume One) Order here: pen·ti·men·to / noun Reappearance in a painting of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over. 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 ‘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. FURTHER READING ON JON HASSELL: Fourth World in the 21st century: Brian Eno on Jon Hassell: