Power Spot

by Jon Hassell

Type: Album
Released: 1986
Label: ECM
Country: United States
Length: 47:46
Community rating: 3.98/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Co-produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, 'Power Spot' continues Jon Hassell's brilliant development of 'Fourth World' music, blending heavily processed trumpet performance with global tribal rhythms. The album utilizes dense tape loops and electronic percussion to create a deeply hypnotic, mysterious, and highly rhythmic ambient landscape. It is a profoundly calm, avant-garde masterpiece of cross-cultural musical synthesis.

Genres

Tribal Ambient

Descriptors: instrumental, avant-garde, rhythmic, atmospheric, electronic, ambient, fusion, percussive

Tracklist

Credits

Jon Hassell - primary artist, trumpet, composed by
Dieter Rehm - design
David Bottrill - engineer [assistant]
Roman Zack - engineer [assistant]
Michael Brook - guitar, electronics [electronic treatments]
Jean-Philippe Rykiel - keyboards [electronic keyboards: facsimile bass, percussion, strings, etc.]
J.A. Deane - percussion [acoustic and electronic percussion], alto flute
Curtis Knapp - photography by [insert portrait of jon hassell]
Brian Eno - producer, engineer, electric bass
Daniel Lanois - producer, engineer
Richard Horowitz - keyboards [electronic]
Paul Armin - strings [raad electro-acoustic]
Richard Armin - strings [raad electro-acoustic]
Miguel Frasconi - flute