Extraordinary
This is one of Hassell's most compelling yet somehow least-known projects. Unfortunately, the eMusic staff mispelled Mr. Hassell's last name so this album does not come up when one searches on "Jon Hassell."
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an otherworldly masterpiece
If you like Eno and other artists who play ambient with an edge, you owe it to yourself to download this album. Farafina's hypnotic rhythms have been looped and transformed into vast dreamscapes over which Hassell blows his poignant Miles-esque lines, and some of these tracks -- like "Masque" -- give the impression of great power held in reserve, like a smoldering volcano. A superb album.
Mystical
Beautiful, other-worldly, hypnotic... The synthesis of the complex polyrhythms of Farafina and Jon Hassel's haunting trumpet lines is unique and engaging...
