Jon Hassell
Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One) LP

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 ‘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.

NEW / Released in 2018

Tracklist:

A1 Dreaming

A2 Picnic

A3 Slipstream

A4 Al-Kongo Udu

B1 Pastorale Vassant

B2 Manga Scene

B3 Her First Rain

B4 Ndeya