Thirty years inside this music
I have been listening to Jon Hassell since high school. No musician has shaped me more. The Fourth World idea, music that sounds like a place that does not exist, has been the center of my listening life since before I could name it.
In the 2010s that influence became a working life. I joined Jon's band and stayed for the decade, on stage with him through his last concert in London in 2015, and in the studio for the two final albums, Listening to Pictures and Seeing Through Sound. I recorded and co-produced both. That music was built at close range, over years, in rooms Jon and I shared.
Jon is gone. The method is not. This record is my answer to the only question worth asking after a loss like that: what happens to the music now? It is heavily shaped by my relationship with him, and it is made with the conviction the title states. A fourth world is still possible.
