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Jon Hassell's Music Is Invisible Features Live Recordings
Music Is Invisible consists of live recordings created using sound banks and instruments from musicians' previous recordings, opening with Jon Hassell's melancholy trumpet alongside bass oscillations and hopeful bop chords.
Jon Hassell's Music Is Invisible consists of live recordings built from sound banks and instruments drawn from musicians' previous recordings. The album opens with bass oscillations and hopeful bop chords accompanying Hassell's melancholy trumpet.
The album includes Electric Forest, which uses electronic sounds and muted brass sounds, and Club Gris-Gris, featuring electronic pulses and metallic percussion. The first album in Hassell's Pentimento trilogy, Listening to Pictures, was released in 2018, followed by Seeing Through Sound in 2020.
Hassell developed the concept of Fourth World music and worked with Bluescreen in the mid-1990s. His last concert took place in 2015 at St John at Hackney with Rick Cox and John von Seggern.
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