he made so many ridiculously good albums you can go through decades of his work without finding anything shit, Fascinoma is a personal fave of mine.
― calzino, Sunday, 27 June 2021 11:15 (two years ago) link
Ronu Majumdar's "Hollow Bamboo" album on the Water Lily label has a real nice guest spot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zeaTh0f0E4
― sleeve, Sunday, 27 June 2021 15:16 (two years ago) link
New York Times w/ details I didn’t know:
Fascinated by electronic music, he made tape collages and won a grant to study with the avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen for two years in Cologne, Germany. His classmates included musicians who would go on to start the German band Can; he took LSD with them
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 June 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link
I knew he studied with Stockhausen around the same time as Holger Czukay, didn't know about the LSD though!
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 28 June 2021 15:42 (two years ago) link
... and David Johnson, who was in the original line-up of Can.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 28 June 2021 15:44 (two years ago) link
RIP. what a life.
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Monday, 28 June 2021 15:47 (two years ago) link
84 is pretty good. But given that he was creating music at such a high level, it’s hard not to feel a little sadder about this. His last few records betrayed no signs of slowing down whatsoever – in retrospect, I find it remarkable that his music sounded every bit as exotic, brooding and other to the very end. RIP to one of the greats.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 13:21 (two years ago) link
Have we ever polled his albums? I only get this topic when using the search.
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:35 (two years ago) link
The Surgeon of the Nightsky Restores Dead Things by the Power of Sound----
not seeing this one on Spotify. Author/critic Jon Savage says it's a fave of his
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 1 July 2021 17:10 (two years ago) link
It's wonderful. Listen to it a lot.
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Friday, 2 July 2021 02:04 (two years ago) link
Nice tribute mix from Low Light: https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/last-night-the-moon-came-a-tribute-to-john-hassell/
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 2 July 2021 06:58 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGFJhExa4Qc
― Milton Parker, Friday, 2 July 2021 08:22 (two years ago) link
Chaser:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbcuISx7vDk
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 4 July 2021 20:21 (two years ago) link
I miss this guy already
― sleeve, Sunday, 4 July 2021 20:28 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0sjEnihSdI
"caracas night september 11, 1975"
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Sunday, 11 September 2022 17:25 (one year ago) link
Highly recommended tribute: https://astralindustries.bandcamp.com/album/ai-32-the-fifth-world-recordings
― Pataphysician, Friday, 13 January 2023 15:05 (one year ago) link
Some live stuff coming out — sounds pretty pretty good ...
https://jonhassell.bandcamp.com/
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 January 2023 20:56 (one year ago) link
just reading up on some of his credits, turns out he played on a pair of duncan sheik tracks? sounds like a bad david sylvian song hxxps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISt0LotIIEo
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Thursday, 19 January 2023 23:04 (one year ago) link
the link between bad 90s radio rock and new weird america that ilm needed today
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 19 January 2023 23:07 (one year ago) link
Some live stuff coming out — sounds pretty pretty good ... https://jonhassell.bandcamp.com🕸/
― bamboohouses, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 17:59 (one year ago) link
Just now relistening to Brilliant Trees for the first time in a while and his tone when he first appears is unmistakable.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 18:04 (one year ago) link
aahhhh xpost that's too bad re:forthcoming live stuff. that material *is* worth revisiting. this is the cd edition i picked up years ago and it's p spiff.
also yes ned! love him so much on that material. words with the shaman probably already mentioned as such, but i am officially stating my vote for "classic hassell" across the board for all of the sylvian collabs. stating the obvious perhaps, but it's nice to be right for once!
― "i'm grateful." (Austin), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link
sounds like a bad david sylvian song
funny because one of the few things I know about duncan shiek is that he's a big sylvian fan and stated in interviews after Barely Breathing became a huge hit that he was surprised to get any commercial success as he thought of himself as a Sylvian type.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 23:38 (one year ago) link
Never understood why Alfred had such a bad reaction to Brilliant Trees. Hassell’s work there (and on Words w the Shaman which was stapled to my CD edition) is so, so good. Even though I love that he went out on top, I miss this guy.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 13:00 (one year ago) link
duncan shiek is that he's a big sylvian fan
yeah i definitely got that sense after listening to the two tracks with hassell and almost made me want to check out some of his other stuff to see if he had some good sylvian-inspired deep cuts
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 15:50 (one year ago) link
aka/dabari/java >>>>>>
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 21:09 (one year ago) link
decided to listen through the whole catalog and spend time with some of his records i've only glancingly heard and wow what a knockout
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 21:10 (one year ago) link
That one is killer. A discography listen sounds just the thing. Lately, I've been listening to *Last Night the Moon* and goddamn.
― Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 21:15 (one year ago) link
agreed, so great, very subtle/minimal
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 22:26 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2CO0kFhjwE
i'm glad the living city was given its own release. i don't know that i would've ever heard it otherwise and it's one of the very best hassell things
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 14 May 2023 18:00 (one year ago) link
First heard Hassell w/his track Amsterdam Blue (Cortege) on the soundtrack for the The Million Dollar Hotel. I don't think it appeared anywhere else.
― omar little, Sunday, 14 May 2023 18:05 (one year ago) link
he was a genius, such a rich catalog.
Hadn't heard *The Living City* before. Some deep weirdness going on in there. The bassline on the opening track is like having a fly in a tooth cavity.
― Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Sunday, 14 May 2023 20:12 (one year ago) link