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musicOMH FEBRUARY 1, 2023 - by Ian Wade

JON HASSELL: FURTHER FICTIONS

Further Fictions is a new anthology of Jon Hassell's two albums The Living City and Psychogeography. The Living City documented a live show at the Winter Garden in New York in September 1989 and was mixed by Brian Eno, while Psychogeography is, and I quote, "inspired by the increasingly innovative production techniques being used in hip-hop, in particular the hyper-collaged sampledelic barrage of the Bomb Squad's work with Public Enemy, hearing it as a kind of extension of the tape splicing that Teo Macero brought to his work with Miles Davis. He began to incorporate more of this aesthetic into his own music, playing over loops of his own performances and riffing on angular juxtapositions of noise, rhythm and melody. The resulting sonic stew is a kind of futuristic sci-fi funk with an appropriately melted production aesthetic." And you can't say fairer than that. The 2CD set and 2x2LP individual albums come with a thirty-two-page booklet of notes and snaps.