Album
Vernal Equinox
1977 · Electronic
Rare pressing on Gatefold
Vernal Equinox is an Electronic album by Jon Hassell, originally released in 1977. On Gatefold: 10 pressings tracked.
About
Rarely in the history of avant-garde music has a musician laid out the <i>modus operandi</i> of their musical vision with such clarity and precision as Jon Hassell did on his 1977 debut, <i>Vernal Equinox</i>. His complex combination of electric-Miles jazz deconstruction, Hindustani raga structure, minimally abstract studio space, and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s concept of “global village polyphony” appears here more or less fully crystalized, adding up to something alien and ineffable that Hassell would later christen “fourth world.” First issued as part of a genre-defining early run of avant-garde LPs on Robert Ashley and Mimi Johnson’s Lovely Music label, <i>Vernal Equinox</i> is emblematic of the vaporous dissipation of genres that flowed from the late 1970s into the 1980s to undergird coming notions of global pop and world music. .
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Tracklist
- 1Toucan Ocean3:53
- 2Viva Shona7:08
- 3Hex6:29
- 4Blues Nile9:59
- 5Vernal Equinox22:03
- 6Caracas Night September 11, 19752:14
Sound DNA
- Electronic
- Ambient & Downtempo
- gritty
- swaggering
- urban
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Andy JerisonSYNTHESIZER
- David RosenboomKALIMBA RATTLE , SYNTHESIZER SYNTHESIZER
- DroneSYNTHESIZER SYNTHESIZER , ELECTRONICS
- Jon HassellTRUMPET TRUMPET , ELECTRIC PIANO TRUMPET, ELECTRIC PIANO
- Naná VasconcelosCONGAS CONGAS, SHAKER TALKING DRUM, BELLS
- Nicolas KilbournTALKING DRUM, MBIRA
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 10 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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