Jon Hassell

With this kind of music, he significantly influenced numerous emerging styles such as world music, nu-jazz or ambient.

It is no mistake to say that without Hassell's ideas, these types of music would have taken a very different course. The list of influenced musicians and producers is long, starting with Brian Eno, who further developed his ambient concept as well as the multi- rhythmic approach after working with him. Eno passed the latter on to David Byrne (Talking Heads). Hassell's influence on the music world cannot be overestimated, even if he himself was always unimpressed by the praise. "It's the invisible things that buzz around us. You just have to bring them to light and make them visible." INTUITION's 1987 "The Surgeon of the Nightsky Restores Dead Things by the Power of Sound" is undoubtedly one of his best works and we are proud to have it included in the catalogue.

In a tried and tested association with Brian Eno (as producer), his first completely live-recorded album was released at that time. The individual pieces, which were recorded in Paris, Vancouver, Hamburg and Brussels, reflect the special atmosphere that made every (rare) Jon Hassell concert something extraordinary. The extremely delicate preparation and postprocessing of the live material in the studio mix also makes it clear to the listener what subtle means Jon Hassell used to captivate his audience. This album is an absolute work of sound-art, or as one listener once put it: "An album with almost tender percussion and floating, artfully sprinkled synthesizer sounds and accompanied by an electronically alienated trumpet that is mysteriously bizarre and at the same time unspeakably gentle and soft - somehow beyond space and time."