Jon Hassell - Seeing Through Sound (Vinyl LP)
140g Vinyl • Printed Inner Sleeve • Pentimento Volume Two
‘Fearless’ locks into a steady, mechanical pulse for eight minutes while trumpet and guitar surface through a murky, smoky haze. ‘Moons Of Titan’ thins everything out into drifting electronic texture. ‘Unknown Wish’ slows almost to a stop, a ballad that seems to hang in place. Then ‘Reykjavik’ scatters into two minutes of jittery, skittering electronics. ‘Lunar’ lets the trumpet bend and smear over a bed of rhythmic bass samples. ‘Timeless’ closes with small electronic pops and burbles drifting across a slow, glistening backdrop, hand drums somewhere underneath.
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Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two) is a 2020 album from the American trumpeter and composer Jon Hassell, an ambient record threaded with fourth world jazz and electronics, released on 24 July 2020 on Ndeya, his own imprint of Warp.
A companion to 2018’s Listening To Pictures, it continues the Pentimento series, named after the painter’s term for earlier strokes showing through a reworked canvas. Hassell applies that idea to sound, layering and overpainting trumpet, guitar, violin and samples until the sources blur.
He produced it with Rick Cox at Studio Venice in California, folding in sessions recorded in a Vienna church and at Radio France in Paris, with contributions from Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang, Hugh Marsh, Adam Rudolph and electronic composer Michel Redolfi. Two pieces over eight minutes long, ‘Fearless’ and ‘Timeless’, frame shorter sketches in between. Hassell, who first set out his fourth world idea on his debut album Vernal Equinox, died the following year, making this his final studio album.
This edition is a single 140-gram LP in a full-colour printed sleeve with a printed inner, mastered by Al Carlson and cut by Josh Bonati. Its moon-and-stars artwork draws on a motif from the painter Mati Klarwein's family.
The series concluded posthumously with Music Is Invisible (Pentimento Volume Three) in 2026.
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