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Jon Hassell Leftfield Future Jazz 1990 UK
Jon Hassell - City: Works Of Fiction flac album
  • Performer Jon Hassell
  • Title City: Works Of Fiction
  • Date of release 1990
  • Country UK
  • Style Leftfield, Future Jazz
  • Other formats TTA ADX MMF AIFF VOX MP3 AAC
  • Genre Electronic / Jazz
  • Size MP3 1342 mb
  • Size FLAC 1765 mb
  • Rating: 4.8
  • Votes: 487
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Emerald City 33. Cloud-Shaped Time Combining his trademark brand of Fourth World fusion with new influences from the emerging hip-hop scene, this 1990 album is a landmark release in Jon Hassell's career to date. Futuristic sci-fi funk with a completely melted production aesthetic – instruments and samples blur into one another in the manner of the best dub records  . Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Purchasable with gift card.

Complete your Jon Hassell collection. Another incredible otherworldly album by Jon Hassell. Glad to finally have this back in the collection. If you've heard any of his albums then you will know what this sounds like nothing new here (except everything).

Hassell coined the term "Fourth World" to describe his work on "a unified sound combining features of world ethnic styles with advanced electronic techniques. In addition to nonwestern traditional musics, critics have noted the influence of Miles Davis on Hassell's style, particularly Davis' use of electronics, modal harmony, and understated lyricism. Both on record and during  . City: Works of Fiction (1990). Dressing for Pleasure (1994) (with Bluescreen). Sulla Strada (1995) (with I Magazzini).

BPM Profile City - Works of Fiction. Album starts at 111BPM, ends at 101BPM (-10), with tempos within the -BPM range. Try refreshing the page if dots are missing). Recent albums by Jon Hassell. Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One).

Several tracks on Jon Hassell's City: Works of Fiction feature dense electronic textures that are more fragmentary and aggressive than his prior work. However, the many polyrhythmic grooves on City are clearly reminiscent of Power Spot and point to the upcoming hip-hop of Dressing for Pleasure. Throughout City, Hassell's unique brand of exoticism prevails as he weaves his processed raga trumpet amidst a dazzling array of digital samples and electronic percussion, electric bass and guitar, and Masai voices from Kenya. On "Out of Adedara," Hassell's weary trumpet brings the album to a quiet closing. As with all of Hassell's best work, his processed raga trumpet remains the focal point from which his highly imaginative musical conceptions emerge. On City, Hassell's trumpet bridges the new rhythms, textures, and technology to his Fourth World aesthetic.

City: Works Of Fiction is a music studio album recording by JON HASSELL (Jazz ive Rock) released in 1990 on cd, lp, vinyl and/or cassette. Only for completionists (0%). I see that Jon Hassell is listed here under "Jazz/Rock Fusion".

Jon Hassell - City Works of Fiction 1990. City Works of Fiction 1990. Download MP3. Jon Hassell.

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1 Voiceprint (Blind From The Facts)
Composed By – Jeff RonaEdited By [Digital Audio] – Jeff Rona, Jon HassellMixed By – Miles ChristensenRecorded By [Location Recording In Kenya Of Masai Voices] – Bob Bielecki, Connie KieltykaSampler [Additional Sampling - "metadrum"] – Richard Henderson
 5:46
2 Pagan 6:26
3 Mombasa
Composed By – Adam Rudolph
 8:03
4 Tikal
Composed By – Gregg Arreguin
 3:06
5 In The City Of Red Dust 5:37
6 Rain
Electronics [Sequence] – Jean-Philippe Rykiel
 6:28
7 Ba-Ya 6:02
8 Warriors 9:22
9 Out Of Adedara 5:07

Companies, etc.

  • Recorded At – Group IV Recording Studios

Credits

  • Artwork By [Art Direction + Design] – Ph. D
  • Bass, Mastered By [Coordination And Cosultation] – Daniel Schwartz
  • Co-producer – Rudolph*, Daniel Schwartz, Arreguin*, Rona*
  • Edited By [Tape] – Andy Harper
  • Engineer [Second, At Group IV Studios] – Dann Thompson, George Belle
  • Engineer [Second, At Post Logic Studios] – George Selden, Greg Howard , Tim Malcolm
  • Guitar – Gregg Arreguin
  • Keyboards – Jeff Rona
  • Keyboards, Percussion [Sampled], Programmed By [Programming] – Jeff Rona
  • Liner Notes – Glenn O'Brien
  • Mastered By – Stephen Marcussen
  • Mixed By – Harry Andronis (tracks: 2 to 9)
  • Percussion, Percussion [Sampled] – Adam Rudolph
  • Photography – Christine Alicino
  • Recorded By – Harry Andronis
  • Trumpet, Keyboards, Composed By, Producer – Jon Hassell

Notes

Recorded at Group IV Studios, Hollywood, June 1989.
Mixed at Post Logic Studios, Hollywood, July 1989.
Mastered at Precision Lacquer, Hollywood.
AAD

"Voiceprint (Blind From The Facts)" Metal fatigue is a euphemism. The same vibrations express sympathy or illness depending on their target. At night the broken glass looks like a field of stars. Seen from the towers, the tail lights of a car cruising for prostitutes can spell out short words, like L-U-V.
"Pagan" In our search for a way of keeping track of minutes and seconds without tools we discovered music and from then on the other arts chimed in. Harvests improved. We developed new fruits and flowers and invented dessert wines.
"Mombasa" They sell orchids in the ladies room. The subway is free. The trains keep rolling all night long. On it they sell fresh orange juice and newspapers. Rice is a dime and it's white. When it rains everything shines like glass. Once in a while the wind blows through this town from the North and sandblasts everything. What's metal shines, what's painted they repaint.
"Tikal" At any given time exactly the same number of people will be found to be sleeping there. Sleeping past the alarm is a crime. Doctors make the patients run or weave a specific pattern of lace. Smoking is mandatory in restaurants.
"In The City Of Red Dust" Their engravings of God depict him in a hammock. The grandeur of a home usually has to do with the size of its central fountain. Many of their priests are also hairdressers whose pricey creations represent mythological events. Although nudism is the custom, men and women rarely are seen unveiled.
"Rain" The wind changes the beat. Water blows around a corner and down the block. It's backed up. Foreign cars with horns in minor keys. Hear the phone wires bang and echo like a cheap cave. The wind is playing with fire.
"Ba-Ya" D. I always wondered how they could dig a city like that up. Who buried it in the first place. Don't tell me it just gathered dust for that long. Somebody must have buried it. Maybe they were trying to hide it so their apartments would be vacant when they came back but then they never did.
"Warriors" Bad mothers. Fierce but laid back. Wearing colors you've never seen. Gangbanging without moving. Napping in your face. Sleeping in a car outside your house with the radio on.
"Out Of Adedara" Their architects were blind women. From these towers rose the hot air balloons of the singers. The baths stretched from the North wall of the city to the South. To enter the women's city from the men's city one had to pass through them, and the same going the other way.

GEMA/BIEM
LC 0392
Barcode: 0 7599-26153-2 7
Made in Germany

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
LANDCD11 Jon Hassell City: Works Of Fiction ‎(CD, Album) Land Records LANDCD11 UK 1990
4-26153, 9 26153-4 Jon Hassell City: Works Of Fiction ‎(Cass, Album) Opal Records, Warner Bros. Records 4-26153, 9 26153-4 US 1990
HNCD 1483 Jon Hassell City: Works Of Fiction ‎(CD, Album, RE) All Saints HNCD 1483 UK 1992
POCP-1302 Jon Hassell City: Works Of Fiction ‎(CD, Album) All Saints POCP-1302 Japan 1993
7599-26153-1 Jon Hassell City: Works Of Fiction ‎(LP, Album) Opal Records, Warner Bros. Records 7599-26153-1 Germany 1990


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