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JON HASSELL : Dream Theory In Malaya (Fourth World Volume Two)

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Format: LP+CD [GBLP052]
Shipping Weight: 0.47lbs
Label: GLITTERBEA

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'LP version. 180 gram vinyl; Includes CD. First reissue of Jon Hassell's "Fourth World" masterpiece, originally released in 1981. Featuring contributions from Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois (U2, Peter Gabriel), and Michael Brook (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan). Beautifully remastered, with a bonus track ("Ordinary Mind") and liner notes written by Hassell himself. "Fourth World is a viewpoint out of which evolves guidelines for finding balances between accumulated knowledge and the conditions created by new technologies" --Jon Hassell. From his time studying with Stockhausen in Cologne and a passage through the New York minimalist sphere with Terry Riley, La Monte Young, and Philip Glass to his mentorship with the Indian vocal master Pandit Pran Nath and collaborative excursions with Eno, the Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, David Sylvian, Bjork, and Ry Cooder, Jon Hassell has pursued a continuous questioning of the dichotomies between North and South, sacred and sensual, primitive and futurist. These cross-pollinating influences and pan-cultural musical educations led Hassell to the gradual development of musical concepts and gestures that he grouped under the "Fourth World" umbrella theory. "I wanted the mental and geographical landscapes to be more indeterminate -- not Indonesia, not Africa, not this or that. . . . What would music be like if 'classic' had not been defined as what happened in Central Europe two hundred years ago. What if the world knew Javanese music and Pygmy music and Aborigine music? What would 'classical music' sound like then?" In the late 1970s in New York, Hassell began to produce a series of astonishing albums on which his trumpet explored both non-Western modalities and dramatic sound processing (deftly rendered by nascent digital effects like the AMS Harmonizer). Brian Eno, who was living New York at the time, was thrilled by Hassell's 1978 debut album, Vernal Equinox, and sought out its creator. Together they produced the classic 1980 album Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics (GB 019CD/LP), before Eno charged headlong into "Fourth World"-ish collaborations with a new partner, David Byrne, on Remain in Light (1980) and My Life in The Bush of Ghosts (1981). Hassell began to feel that they were at least borrowing concepts and sounds to which he had introduced them, and at worst, that a full-scale appropriation was taking place. As Hassell undertook the process of recording and finalizing Dream Theory in Malaya: Fourth World Volume Two -- the follow-up to Possible Musics -- Brian Eno was again present, as both mixer and musician, but this time the back cover credits leave no room for interpretation or confusion: "All compositions by Jon Hassell. Produced by Jon Hassell."'

Tracklist
A1 Chor Moire 2:18
Mixed By ? Brian Eno
A2 Courage 3:28
Bass ? Michael Brook
Drum [Distant Drum] ? Walter DeMaria
Drum [Drums] ? Brian Eno
Mixed By ? Jon Hassell
A3 Dream Theory 5:13
Bass ? Michael Brook
Drum [Drums] ? Brian Eno
Mixed By ? Brian Eno
A4 Datu Bintung At Jelong 7:03
Mixed By ? Dan Lanois
Synthesizer [Prophet 5] ? Jon Hassell
B1 Malay 10:10
Drum [Pottery Drums] ? Jon Hassell
Gong [Bowl Gongs] ? Miguel Frasconi
Gong [Bowl Gongs], Bells ? Brian Eno
Mixed By ? Brian Eno
B2 These Times... 2:52
Gong [Bowl Gongs], Bells ? Brian Eno
Mixed By ? Brian Eno
B3 Gift Of Fire 5:00
Drum [Pottery Drums], Gong [Bowl Gongs] ? Jon Hassell
Mixed By ? Jon Hassell
B4 Ordinary Mind (Bonus Track) 3:07

Credits
Composed By [All Compositions By] ? Jon Hassell
Coordinator [Project Co-ordinator] ? Michael Brook
Design ? Paula Greif
Edited By [Splash Rhythm Edit Assist.] ? Paul Fitzgerald
Engineer ? Dan Lanois
Engineer [Additional Engineering] ? Greg Roberts
Other [AMS Model DMX 1580S: Courtesy] ? Dick Armin
Painting [Cover: "Alexander's Dream", Painting By] ? Mati Klarwein
Photography By [Photo] ? Jimmy de Sana
Producer ? Jon Hassell
Recorded By [Frog Bog Recording] ? Andrew Timar
Trumpet [All Tracks] ? Jon Hassell

Notes
LP + CD included.
Recorded at Grant Avenue Studio, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.