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

  1. Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics, Wikipedia