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Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)

  • Cat No: NDEYA1LP
  • updated:2026-10-02

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LP ---- JPY

Not to mention the 1981 African collage masterpiece *My Life Is a Bush of Ghosts* by Brian Eno and David Byrne, this 1980 landmark album—*The Pulse of the Fourth World*—served as a catalyst for the emergence of a new urban music scene by hybridizing elements of world music from Africa, Brazil, Southeast Asia—which were then largely unknown musical realms—were hybridized into genres like rock and jazz fusion, paving the way for the birth of new urban music. Known for his 1980 landmark album *The Pulse of the Fourth World*, John Hassell—one of the most important figures in modern music history, currently enjoying a massive resurgence in the club scene—has released his first new album in nine years! !! Full steam ahead! Wonderful!!! We’re thrilled to announce the reissue of this masterpiece album for the first time in several years—it’s back in stock!

A release from NDEYA, the new label he founded himself. Both the vinyl and CD versions feature a total of 8 tracks and come with an inner sleeve and a download code. Hassel, who continues to challenge infinite possibilities by repeatedly deconstructing, reconstructing, and fusing all forms of music, reflects painterly techniques from oil painting into his production and arrangements on this album. He deconstructs textures by layering sounds upon sounds, gradually revealing the tracks’ underlying structure through meticulously timed arrangements. Forty years after the release of *Fourth World*, even when listened to in 2018—after we’ve experienced a wide variety of music—it doesn’t sound the least bit dated. Far from merely “learning from the past to understand the present,” this supreme soundscape, unique to Jon Hassell, embodies and proposes a constantly deepening and evolving sense of the times and the future—it is nothing short of breathtaking. “John Hasell’s greatness in the history of contemporary music rivals that of Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, or the Velvet Underground.”—The Wire. Please also check out the track list. I highly recommend this album. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)

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