Jon Hassell’s Argument for a Fourth World Continues with ‘Seeing Through Sound’
Jon Hassell’s music is forever contemporary. All he’s had to do is leave open space for the next exploration, as he does on Seeing Through Sound.
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Jazz Meets World Music on Jon Hassell and Farafina’s ‘Flash of the Spirit’
Originally released at the end of the 1980s to a bemused audience, will Jon Hassell and Farafina's Flash of the Spirit fare any better in the new millennium?
Jon Hassell Pushes His Patented Fourth World Sound Forward on ‘Listening to Pictures’
Trumpeter Jon Hassell adds influences from club music to the rich, long-simmering stew he's been cooking for decades on Listening to Pictures.
A Travelogue of Jon Hassell’s ‘Fourth World’ Journey Into the Mystical
Fourth Word truly is a world unto itself, a vision of avant-garde experimentation that influenced numerous composers in its wake.
Jon Hassell and Brian Eno: Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics
It doesn't matter who played or who produced. It doesn't matter if it's "classical" or "ambient". And it certainly doesn't matter that it was released in 1980. Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics is still an album unlike any other.