Aka / Darbari / Java: Magic Realism
A trumpet multiplied by computer over Senegalese drums, a pygmy voice and Javanese cascades.
Jon Hassell, 1983
- Released
- 1983
- Label
- Editions EG
Co-produced by Daniel Lanois, with Abdou M'Boup on drums and a cover painting by Mati Klarwein, the album has a liner note by Hassell that describes a trumpet branched into a chorus by computer, tracing the raga Darbari over Senegalese drumming recorded in Paris, and calls the record a proposal for a coffee-colored classical music of the future.
AllMusic's Brian Olewnick called it an early high-water mark where world and ambient musics meet, and Robert Christgau called it dandy background music.
Track listing
- Empire I2:00
- Empire II4:53
- Empire III7:09
- Empire IV5:13
- Empire V3:40
- Darbari Extension I13:52
- Darbari Extension II7:23
Personnel
- Jon Hassell trumpet, co-producer
- Daniel Lanois co-producer
- Abdou M'Boup drums
More from Jon Hassell
Vernal Equinox (1977), Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics (1980), Dream Theory in Malaya: Fourth World Volume Two (1981), Power Spot (1986), Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street (2009), Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume One) (2018), Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two) (2020)
Sources
- Aka/Darbari/Java: Magic Realism, Wikipedia
- Aka / Darbari / Java - Magic Realism, Discogs