Thirty years inside this music
I have been shaped by Jon Hassell's music since high school, when I was first learning to play. The Fourth World idea, music that sounds like a place that does not exist, has been the center of my musical life since before I had a name for it.
In the 2010s that influence came full circle. I got the chance to join Jon's band and worked closely with him for the rest of the decade, on stage together through his last concert in London in 2015, and in the studio for his two final albums, Listening to Pictures and Seeing Through Sound, recording co-producing, and performing on both.
Now I'm continuing to push these ideas into the future. Now more than ever we need to cultivate the kind of cross-cultural communication Jon fostered in his work. A fourth world is still possible.
