Anthology of new/leftfield music featuring twelve artists including Steve Reich, Wim Mertens & Michael Nyman. Hassell contributes Pygmy Dance, a piece exclusive to this album

Number of Discs: 1
Label: New Tone

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New deluxe, special packaging plus extra tracks:

Preparations For A Journey
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The Stigma Of Childhood (Kin)
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A Brief Conversation Ending In Divorce
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Steel Cathedrals (previously available on cassette version of Alchemy and Weatherbox)
(29th September 2003)

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Originally released in 1982. Hassell appears on one track, Shadow

Number of Discs: 1
Label: EG

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French edition of the ethereal Swedish singer/songwriter's 1994 album for East West. 12 tracks including Crime, featuring avant-garde trumpeter Jon Hassell & the acoustic Little Star (also included on the Romeo & Julliet soundtrack). For fans of David Sylvian's Brilliant Trees

Number of Discs: 1
Label: East-West

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New deluxe, special packaging plus previously unseen photos from Berlin recording session and Chamonix included on digipak and throughout the 24 page photo booklet
(29th September 2003)

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Originally released in 1991, Hassell plays on/co-writes one track, Funeral for a Flower

Number of Discs: 1
Label: Nova

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Instead of opting for the full-on pop diva route, Cole travels a far more interesting path towards the mainstream that picks up on the vapor trails of I Can See Clearly Now and her album of Waits covers. I've Just Seen a Face retains echoes of its signature melody, but is otherwise a smart reinvention, and Sheryl Crow's You Want More or the slinky Aaron Davis co-write Timbuktu make fine follow-ups. Larry Klein's spartan production shines in particular on the title track. --Jeff Bateman

Number of Discs: 1
Label: Blue Note Records

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Sensual, seductive, and above all smoky, the latest from k.d. lang is a collection of a dozen tunes that all have some connection to smoking--usually in the romantic, post-coital sense--done up in a lush, orchestrated fashion. Some of these tunes are standards, such as Smoke Dreams and My Last Cigarette, while others are just plain strange selections given some of the oddest readings imaginable. Case in point: the cover of Steve Miller's The Joker. lang's voice is an incredible instrument, and it's a treat to hear her vamping. But you have to wonder what she's up to, especially because she seems to just say no to tobacco herself, --Jim Derogatis

Number of Discs: 1
Label: Warner

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Hassell with long-time Toop collaborator Max Eastley on Wing Beats

Number of Discs: 1
Label: Barooni

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This Australian exclusive format contains a bonus track, the Howie B remix of Love's Great Ocean

Number of Discs: 1
Label: Warner

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Hassell on 14-minute final track, Pulse

Number of Discs: 1
Label: Righteous Babe

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Originally released in 1987. Hassell appears on one track, Big Snake

Number of Discs: 1
Label: EG

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Includes some new recordings featuring Hassell

Number of Discs: 1
Label: Elektra

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On Nomad Soul Baaba Maal has stayed true to his Fulani herdsman roots, singing as he travels and working with the best of those he meets along the way. On his seventh U.S. release, you will find collaborations with ambient pioneers Brian Eno and Jon Hassell (Hassell on final track, 12-minute Lam Lam, with Howie B and Eno), Celtic influences with Irish singers the Screaming Orphans, and a duet with reggae star Luciano. Afro Celt Sound System mainstay Simon Emmerson produces, as do Groucho Smykle, Ron Aslan, and Mykael Riley. This CD is a successful blend of diverse musical influences united by the solid Senegalese sound of Baaba Maal. Maal and his band Daande Lenol are known for extraordinary live performances full of passionate playing and gravity-defying dancing but Maal also makes carefully refined studio recordings using top producers. The result is a polished album that does not lose Maal's vibrancy. --Jeff Grubb

Number of Discs: 1
Label: Palm Pictures

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Hassell with Talvin Singh on the track Slow Loris vs Poison Snail

Number of Discs: 1
Label: East-West

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Originally released in 1980. Hassell enters the pop world via Brian Eno, producing Talking Heads for a third time. Appears on Houses in Motion and is credited with horn arrangements

Number of Discs: 1
Label: Warner Brothers / Sire

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Originally released in 1989, Hassell appears on Standing on the Corner of the Third World and Famous Last Words

Number of Discs: 1
Label: Polygram Records

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Hassell provides trumpet. Mastered by Seigen Ono

Mostly music associated to his TV and Film work commercials in Japan where his state of the art recording studio is Syn - Nishi-Azabu, Tokyo

Number of Discs: 1
Label: Milan Records

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Collaborations / Sessions | Solo

Features Hassell's Nature Boy from Fascinoma

Number of Discs: 1
Label: Warner Brothers

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Immaculately produced by Gabriel himself and Daniel Lanois, this album, which served as the musical background to the Alan Parker movie Birdy contains 12 tracks, 5 of which are instrumental versions of the songs Family Snapshot, Not One Of Us, Rhythm Of The Heat, Wallflower and San Jacinto, from PG's third and fourth albums. The remaining tracks are instrumentals of incredible beauty, where Gabriel plays alongside his long time contributors Larry Fast, Tony Levin, Jerry Marotta and David Rhodes, among others including Jon Hassell

Number of Discs: 1
Label: Universal

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Over the past two decades, guitarist and preservationist Ry Cooder has quietly forged one of the most consistently compelling musical careers in film. His 1997 music for director Wim Wenders's uneven exercise in Hollywood metaphor-mongering begins with typically (dare we say it) Cooder-esque exercises in spacious, loping bottleneck electric guitar over subtle, ominous electronic effects, then interweaves cool jazz and even hip-hop influences into one of the musician's most subtle, satisfying efforts yet (featuring the talents of mixer Howie B., accordionist Flaco Jimenez, trumpeter Jon Hassell, drummer Jim Keltner, tenor sax player Gil Bernal, guitarist James "Blood" Ulmer, and son Joachim Cooder on percussion). As is so often the case with Cooder's work, it's a score to savor when the film has faded from memory. --Jerry McCulley

Number of Discs: 1
Label: Outpost

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Wim Wenders's films are inextricably linked to their companion soundtracks, with music playing as essential a role as any star actor--just see Wings of Desire, Until the End of the World and Paris, Texas for proof. And now we have The Million Dollar Hotel. On this outing Wenders turns to U2's Bono Bill Frisell , Brian Eno , Jon Hassell, and Daniel Lanois. Even without the film, the songs resonate with a haunting glory.
--Tod Nelson

Hassell appears in front of the camera as one of the hotel's many "quirky" denizens. Good soundtrack with standout Hassell composition Amsterdam Blue (Cortege), a marvellous, slow blues. Hassell also on the Danny Sabre remix of Satellite of Love with the film's star, Milla Jovovich

Number of Discs: 1
Label: Island

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To call Peter Gabriel's Passion a pivotal recording in the development of the world music genre would be a significant understatement. What makes Passion so undeniably huge is, of course, its global reach but also its expert handling of what could've easily become polyglot babble. Vocalists Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Youssou N'Dour, and Baaba Mal bring strong Middle Eastern and African voicing to the project, and Balkan textures come via the ney flute and doudouk. But Gabriel is the glue, offering electronic ambient flows between the multiple streams. Gabriel also brings something even less tangible: an awesome visual imagination that takes often seamless sounds and makes them impress the listener with picturelike colors and phrasing. This is, however, far more than an ambient global mix. To be certain, the intertwined rhythms stand out but always do so both unto themselves and as brushstrokes on a larger canvas. Never mind that Passion helped launch North American careers for N'Dour and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, this is a stellar musical achievement by any standard. --Andrew Bartlett

Hassell on one track only, Passion

Number of Discs: 1
Label: Geffen Records

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The sole Hassell track, Wide Sky, is from Fascinoma

Number of Discs: 1
Label: Geffen Records

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