Search - Jon Hassell :: Power Spot

One of the best from one of the best

02/22/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Too bad we haven't heard from Hassell lately other than his forays into dub / electronica (which really has about a billion practicioners, really...) Power Spot is a perfect name for this recording - it has the power to transport you to a amphibious world in the swamps while riding on the back of the winding/swimming reptilian beast evoked by Hassell's processed trumpet. (Note: if you like Kenny G, Celine Dion, Rippingtons' - leave this review as fast you can - this music requires sincere listening and thought)."

Music to do Vulcan mind-melds by

Larry Bottorff (mrprenzl@midusa.net | Moundridge, Kansas | 07/04/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"In the Ayn Rand book "The Fountainhead", a young music student finds the architect protagonist, Howard Rourke, standing on a ledge in a Pennsylvania forest overlooking his latest architectural achievment: a set of buildings for a retreat center. They both look at the elegantly proportioned structures which fit perfectly into the surrounding woods. The student finally tells Rourke that he now has a reason to go on with music, with life--just for knowing there are such people as Rourke and there is such accomplishment. Hassell has taken modern Minimalism, so wonderfully expressed in art and architechture, and created aural Minimalist art. My particular music-student-meets-Rourke experience happens every time I hear Passage D.E. I can feel Spock's fingers at first, but then everything goes, well, somewhere else."