City: Works of Fiction

by Jon Hassell

City: Works of Fiction cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Opal
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 56:13
  • Community rating: 3.72/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The visionary trumpeter significantly evolved his 'Fourth World' aesthetic by incorporating contemporary urban rhythms and heavy hip-hop influences. The dense, heavily sequenced fusion of tribal percussion, dark jazz, and electronic manipulation paints a futuristic, cybernetic cityscape.

Genres

Descriptors: Leftfield, atmospheric, avant-garde, uncommon-time-signatures, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Voiceprint (Blind From The Facts) (5:48)
  2. Pagan [Original Fictions] (6:27)
  3. Mombasa [Original Fictions] (8:07)
  4. Tikal [Original Fictions] (3:07)
  5. In The City Of Red Dust [Original Fictions] (5:38)
  6. Rain [Original Fictions] (6:31)
  7. Ba-Ya D [Original Fictions] (6:03)
  8. Warriors [Original Fictions] (9:23)
  9. Out Of Adedara [Original Fictions] (5:06)

Credits

  • Andy Harper - edited by [tape], editor
  • Jean-Philippe Rykiel - electronics [sequence]
  • Richard Henderson - sampler [additional sampling - "metadrum"]
  • Dan Schwartz - bass guitar

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