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Jon Hassell
- Record Label: Ndeya
- Release Date: Jun 8, 2018
- Summary: This is the first new release in nine years for the ambient jazz trumpeter.
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- Record Label: Ndeya
- Genre(s): New Age, Pop/Rock
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UncutJun 5, 2018Highlights--there are many. ... Masterful. [Jul 2018, p.28]
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Q MagazineJun 5, 2018Fans of Four Tet and Jon Hopkins are advised to check out this master at work. [Summer 2018, p.110]
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MojoJun 5, 2018The most striking thing about Listening To Pictures is how effortlessly contemporary it sounds. [Jul 2018, p.94]
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Jun 6, 2018Of course, it takes a certain degree of patience (or pretension) to unpick the record entirely, but once unravelled listeners are rewarded with a dystopian world best described as sci-fi sleaze.
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Jul 17, 2018It is a music of sense and memory perceptions, a sonic projection equal to but different from the sources that inspired it. When all are assembled, they constitute a deep, mysterious, and occasionally disruptive journey into shade, texture, nuance, and seductive persuasion.
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Aug 7, 2018The dance-inspired elements he throws in on Listening to Pictures don't suddenly mean his work's going to be on sale in the "electronic" racks of record stores. It's just another ingredient in a slow-simmering pot.
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Jun 8, 2018It feels like he’s constantly remixing himself, taking apart ideas from as far back as his 1978 debut Earthquake Island and using new technology to augment and re-contextualize them for the present era. In a perfect Fourth World twist, the music remains entirely grounded in the now while also sounding like it’s been floating in the cosmos for eons.
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