Comments on: Jon Hassell http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2007/04/26/jon-hassell/ Music and culture, mostly. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:30:48 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: 11V http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2007/04/26/jon-hassell/comment-page-1/#comment-26173 11V Sun, 06 May 2007 07:16:53 +0000 http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2007/04/26/jon-hassell/#comment-26173 Hey Doug, funnily enough your two faves have never enduringly hit the spot with me - despite quite a bit of effort on my part. Power Spot just sounds like a more concentrated, but less interesting variant of Possible Musics Vol.1. Earthquake Island I just can't get with, but I'm now going to try again. Give me a shout if you're interested in an FM boot of a Power Spot-era concert. Can you recommend a starting point for Roach? I've only heard a few things and never been struck by them particularly. Hey Doug, funnily enough your two faves have never enduringly hit the spot with me – despite quite a bit of effort on my part. Power Spot just sounds like a more concentrated, but less interesting variant of Possible Musics Vol.1. Earthquake Island I just can’t get with, but I’m now going to try again. Give me a shout if you’re interested in an FM boot of a Power Spot-era concert. Can you recommend a starting point for Roach? I’ve only heard a few things and never been struck by them particularly.

]]> By: doug w http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2007/04/26/jon-hassell/comment-page-1/#comment-26021 doug w Sat, 05 May 2007 02:48:21 +0000 http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2007/04/26/jon-hassell/#comment-26021 Nice piece, though I'd prefer to see Powerspot and Earthquake Island ranked higher on the scale. The latter, too often unfairly dismissed as Jon's "fusion" album, is arguably the closest he's approached to eroticism. The rest are just "merely" sensual... The Echoes tribute reinforces my view that Steve Roach's career would be far less dimensional in the absence of Hassell's Fourth World conception. No slight intended against SR-- as his own catalog has some gems that I wouldn't wish to part with-- but it's always been apparent that the tribal ambient genre was rooted near exclusively in Jon's ideas (and then expanded by Roach and others.) I'm a bit baffled by Scott's aversion to catalogs from the 80s, given the alignments of his blog (another fave, BTW.) In addition to Colin's suggestions, there are many joys to be found in post-punk, art-pop, old-skool industrial, early On-U Sound, Ornette's free funk diaspora, the birth of the tribal/desert/dark ambient movements... Nice piece, though I’d prefer to see Powerspot and Earthquake Island ranked higher on the scale. The latter, too often unfairly dismissed as Jon’s “fusion” album, is arguably the closest he’s approached to eroticism. The rest are just “merely” sensual…

The Echoes tribute reinforces my view that Steve Roach’s career would be far less dimensional in the absence of Hassell’s Fourth World conception. No slight intended against SR– as his own catalog has some gems that I wouldn’t wish to part with– but it’s always been apparent that the tribal ambient genre was rooted near exclusively in Jon’s ideas (and then expanded by Roach and others.)

I’m a bit baffled by Scott’s aversion to catalogs from the 80s, given the alignments of his blog (another fave, BTW.) In addition to Colin’s suggestions, there are many joys to be found in post-punk, art-pop, old-skool industrial, early On-U Sound, Ornette’s free funk diaspora, the birth of the tribal/desert/dark ambient movements…

]]> By: 11V http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2007/04/26/jon-hassell/comment-page-1/#comment-25182 11V Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:57:22 +0000 http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2007/04/26/jon-hassell/#comment-25182 Glad to be of help Mapsadaisical. If Maarifa Street is your introduction, you might find my <a href="http://www.eleventhvolume.com/reviews/cds/files/jon_hassell.html" rel="nofollow"> review</a> provides a bit of context. Averse to the 80s? There was a lot of fine music produced in that decade - Duran Duran, Nik Kershaw... okay, I'm joking, but off the top of my head - how Bill Laswell/Material - Low Life, Baselines, Temporary Music, Ronald Shannon Jackson - Texas, Ornette Coleman's Prime Time albums, particularly In All Languages, Pat Metheny - Offramp, Wichita, Kraftwerk - Computer World, Kate Bush - Hounds of Love? Glad to be of help Mapsadaisical. If Maarifa Street is your introduction, you might find my review provides a bit of context. Averse to the 80s? There was a lot of fine music produced in that decade – Duran Duran, Nik Kershaw… okay, I’m joking, but off the top of my head – how Bill Laswell/Material – Low Life, Baselines, Temporary Music, Ronald Shannon Jackson – Texas, Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time albums, particularly In All Languages, Pat Metheny – Offramp, Wichita, Kraftwerk – Computer World, Kate Bush – Hounds of Love?

]]> By: mapsadaisical http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2007/04/26/jon-hassell/comment-page-1/#comment-24952 mapsadaisical Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:04:46 +0000 http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2007/04/26/jon-hassell/#comment-24952 I appreciate you posting this Colin. I've been getting to work on it already - I've listened to Maarifa Street, and really enjoyed it. The Arve comparisions you make are undeniable - not just in the trumpet technique, but the vocals too. I'll try and hear some of the earlier ones next, despite my instinctive aversion to pretty much anything recorded in the 1980s. I appreciate you posting this Colin. I’ve been getting to work on it already – I’ve listened to Maarifa Street, and really enjoyed it. The Arve comparisions you make are undeniable – not just in the trumpet technique, but the vocals too. I’ll try and hear some of the earlier ones next, despite my instinctive aversion to pretty much anything recorded in the 1980s.

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