Jon Hassell

Bass – Daniel Schwartz
Guitar – Gregg Arreguin
Keyboards, Sampler [Sampled Percussion] – Jeff Rona
Mixed By [Live Mix] – Brian Eno
Percussion [Acoustic Percussion], Sampler [Sampled Percussion] – Adam Rudolph
Trumpet, Keyboards – Jon Hassell

Part of a series of three new archival releases from Ndeya that showcase Jon Hassell and group in the late 1980s exploring a radical tangent on his Fourth World sensibility.

The Living City captures the Jon Hassell Group in September 1989 performing as part of an audio-visual installation inside the World
Financial Center Winter Garden in New York City, with Brian Eno mixing the band live. Eno had designed an audio-visual installation in the 10-story glass-vaulted pavilion, inspired by the hunting, ceremony, animals, and weather sounds of the Ba-Ya-Ka pygmy tribe from Cameroon gathered by Louis Sarno.

Jon Hassell and his then band, the musicians who had recently recorded the City: Works Of Fiction album, played in the Winter Garden Atrium over the course of three nights, with Eno mixing the band live with the installation sounds.

The audio presented here is an edited selection from the performance on the second night, available on vinyl for the first time, cut across four sides by Stefan Betke aka Pole. Gatefold vinyl edition includes download card and extensive sleevenotes.

Comes in gatefold sleeve.
Includes download code.

Also on CD via

Barcode (scanned) – 5060263728894
Matrix / Runout (Runout A) – A NDEYA8LP IΛ BM65628-01 A1 pole@scapemastering
Matrix / Runout (Runout B) – B NDEYA8LP ΛΛ BM65628-01 B1 pole@scapemastering
Matrix / Runout (Runout C) – C NDEYA8LP =Λ BM65628-02 C1 pole@scapemastering
Matrix / Runout (Runout D) – D NDEYA8LP =Λ BM65628-02 D1 pole@scapemastering