Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics
The record with Brian Eno that put a name to Fourth World music.
Jon Hassell, 1980
- Released
- 1980
- Studio
- Celestial Sounds, New York
- Label
- Editions EG
- Length
- 45:05
Made with Brian Eno at Celestial Sounds in New York, it gives its whole second side to the 21-minute Charm (Over "Burundi Cloud"), while Griot was recorded live at the Art Gallery of Ontario. The cover is a Landsat image of the land south of Khartoum. Robert Christgau placed it sixth in Pazz & Jop and called it the most seductive thing Eno had put his name to since Another Green World, and Spin's Alternative Record Guide credited it with pioneering a blended approach to world music that many artists of the 1980s went on to explore.
More from Jon Hassell
Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street (2009), Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume One) (2018)
Sources
- Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics, Wikipedia