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― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 21 August 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
Per a statement from his family, Hassell passed this morning.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 26 June 2021 23:07 (two years ago) link
Oh no. :(((
RIP
I was naïvely looking forward to his next album – it didn't even occur to me that Seeing Through Sound could be the last.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 26 June 2021 23:20 (two years ago) link
damn RIP
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Saturday, 26 June 2021 23:48 (two years ago) link
― Master of Treacle, Saturday, 26 June 2021 23:50 (two years ago) link
Oh shit no way
― disraeli grinds my gears (NickB), Saturday, 26 June 2021 23:52 (two years ago) link
that’s a big one - RIP to a total legend
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Saturday, 26 June 2021 23:58 (two years ago) link
RIP, boo, loved those last few
― sleeve, Sunday, 27 June 2021 00:02 (two years ago) link
Rest In Peace. He was on top to the very last, just a legend
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 27 June 2021 03:35 (two years ago) link
rip. great last album
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Sunday, 27 June 2021 03:40 (two years ago) link
The one before that, too! And I haven’t even listened to the one before that, yet. But still clearly on top of his game and exploring new territory to the very end. That’s all I could hope for anyone
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 27 June 2021 03:47 (two years ago) link
no!!!!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 27 June 2021 03:52 (two years ago) link
This was the statement, BTW:
PRESS STATEMENT from Jon Hassell's FamilyJULY 26, 2021Family Statement:Our beloved Jon M. Hassell - iconic trumpet player, author, and composer - has passed away at the age of 84 years on June 26th 2021. After a little more than a year of fighting through health complications, Jon died peacefully in the early morning hours of natural causes. His final days were surrounded by family and loved ones who celebrated with him the lifetime of contributions he gave to this world– personally and professionally. He cherished life and leaving this world was a struggle as there was much more he wished to share in music, philosophy, and writing.It was his great joy to be able to compose and produce music until the end. We thank all those who contributed to ensuring that he was able to continue expressing his ideas through his final days and maintain a quality end of life.Jon Hassell was able to leave behind many gifts. We are excited and committed to sharing those ongoing with his fans across time and support his enduring legacy. All donations to Jon Hassell’s GoFundMe will allow the tremendous personal archive of his music, much unreleased, to be preserved and shared with the world for years to come. We also hope to provide philanthropic gifts of scholarship and contributions to issues close to Jon’s heart, like supporting the working rights of musicians.As Jon is now free of a constricting body, he is liberated to be in his musical soul and will continue to play in the Fourth World. We hope you find solace in his words and dreams for this earthly place he now leaves behind. We hold him, and you, in this loss and grief.FOURTH WORLD ISA KIND OF PHILOSOPHICAL GUIDELINE, A CREATIVE POSTURE, DIRECTED TOWARDS THE CONDITIONS CREATED BY THE INTERSECTION OF TECHNOLOGY WITH INDIGINOUS MUSIC AND CULTURE.THE UNDERLYING GOAL IS TO PROVIDE A KIND OF CREATIVE MIDWIFERY TO THE INEVITABLE MERGING OF CULTURES WHILE PROVIDING AN ANTIDOTE TO A GLOBAL "MONOCULTURE" CREATED BY MEDIA COLONIZATION.THE UNDERLYING PREMISE IS THAT EACH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' MUSIC AND CULTURE - THE RESULT OF THEIR UNIQUE RESPONSE TO THEIR UNIQUE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT - FUNCTIONS IN THE SAME WAY AS, AS AN "ELEMENT" IN THE PERIODIC TABLE OF CHEMISTRY: AS PURE BUILDING BLOCKS FROM WHICH ALL OTHER "CULTURAL COMPOUNDS" WILL ARISE.IN OTHER WORDS, THESE CULTURES ARE OUR "VOCABULARY" IN TRYING TO THINK ABOUT WAYS TO RESPOND TO OUR PLACE IN THE NEW GEOGRAPHY CREATED BY OUR MEDIA WORLD, AND MUST BE RESPECTED RELATIVE TO THEIR IMPORTANCE TO OUR SURVIVAL.Jon Hassell####
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 27 June 2021 04:04 (two years ago) link
goddamn
and yeah, was still making great music. but also left behind a ton of great records i don’t imagine i’ll ever really get tired of listening to
rip
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Sunday, 27 June 2021 04:11 (two years ago) link
We will never hear another person like him ever again.
Absolute legend. Respect.
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Sunday, 27 June 2021 05:38 (two years ago) link
So sad.
I keep discovering new and unexplored (by me) corners of his work. I had been listening to The Surgeon of the Nightsky Restores Dead Things By The Power of Sound (from the late 80s) just this week - what an amazing record.
― Tim F, Sunday, 27 June 2021 07:36 (two years ago) link
As Jon is now free of a constricting body, he is liberated to be in his musical soul and will continue to play in the Fourth World.
― willem, Sunday, 27 June 2021 07:55 (two years ago) link
Oh shit, RIP
― paolo, Sunday, 27 June 2021 08:50 (two years ago) link
Ah shit. RIP. What a genius.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Sunday, 27 June 2021 09:08 (two years ago) link
Oh no! RIP Jon ;_;
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Sunday, 27 June 2021 09:42 (two years ago) link
RIP Jon. That was a lovely statement from his family
― I am using your worlds, Sunday, 27 June 2021 10:44 (two years ago) link
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 (ten months 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 (ten months 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 (ten months ago) link
agreed, so great, very subtle/minimal
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 22:26 (ten months ago) link