JON HASSELL Power Spot 12" Vinyl LP ECM 1327 466-1 German USED 12" Picture Port.
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Description
Jon Hassell
Power Spot
1986 Vinyl LP Album USED 12" Picture Included
Item Description:
Grant Avenue Studio, Hamilton, Canada
Recorded October 1983 and December 1984
Art: traditional Navajo Sandpainting design
12" portrait picture inserted
? 1986 ECM Records GmbH
All compositions (ASCAP) / Published by Opal Music Ltd, London / An Opal Production
Made and printed in West Germany
Tracklist Hide Credits
A1 Power Spot
Keyboards [Electronic] – Richard Horowitz
7:04
A2 Passage D. E.
Keyboards [Electronic] – Richard Horowitz
Strings [Raad Electro-acoustic] – Paul Armin, Richard Armin
5:25
A3 Solaire
Electric Bass – Brian Eno
6:48
A4 Miracle Steps
Strings [Raad Electro-acoustic] – Paul Armin, Richard Armin
4:18
B1 Wing Melodies
Electric Bass – Brian Eno
7:42
B2 The Elephant And The Orchid 11:00
B3 Air
Flute – Miguel Frasconi
Power Spot opens with the surging, polyrhythmic title track featuring Hassell's sinuous trumpet lines and dense electronic percussion from one of the album's most significant collaborators, J.A. Deane. Ambient keyboard textures drone in the background and, together with the percussion, form a mesmerizing tapestry over which Hassell's trumpet glides and soars. Images of the African continent emerge from the cyclic rhythms and harmonic stasis; a meditative calm hovers behind the swirling surfaces. The opening title track clearly sets the stage for what is to follow. During the murky, down-tempo "Passage D.E.," Hassell conjures stillness from his horn, breathy clouds laced with echo. In "Solaire," the trumpet weaves through watery, transparent textures and pulsing percussion. "Miracle Steps" opens with brazen trumpet declamations accompanied only by irregular rhythmic patterns from the percussion. An evocative blend of quasi-elephant calls and train whistles, the solo trumpet eventually winds its way downward until it is quietly submerged. "Wing Melodies" recalls the surging motion and dense fabric of the title track. Multiple keyboard parts interlock with aggressive percussion while Brian Eno's stuttering bassline remains fixed. Hassell's exuberant trumpet solo is possibly his finest on the album. "The Elephant and the Orchid" recalls the slower tempo and darker shades of "Passage D.E," but lingers there for a rather long time. Ambient keyboard drones and weary percussion provide the accompaniment for Hassell's remarkably flute-like sound. The shimmering flutes of Miguel Frasconi are a welcomed addition to the gently concluding "Air." Throughout Power Spot, Hassell's distinctive "raga" trumpet sound is breathy and vocal. He accomplished this by singing into the trumpet rather than the traditional method of blowing into it. Furthermore, Hassell often harmonized his principal trumpet line in real time, creating chords from just one note. At the time, he accomplished this real-time harmonization by using "tuned" tape loops to create parallel harmonies in fourths and major chords. Released in 1986, Power Spot marks Hassell's only release on Manfred Eicher's ECM label. Recorded in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1983-1984, the co-production and engineering team of Eno and Daniel Lanois faithfully captured Hassell's musical vision while remaining unobtrusive. The larger ensemble sound of Power Spot expanded on Hassell's pan-global "Fourth World" music, which he began with Eno on the groundbreaking Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics album of 1980. While not as stunning as Possible Musics, Power Spot is nonetheless one of the most significant recordings from this utterly unique musician.
Jacket Condition: NM
Small tear in plastic packaging, some vinyl ring wear, slight wear on jacket covers. Never been opened.
Vinyl Condition: M
Brand New, sealed!
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