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Seeing Through Sound

2020 studio album by Jon Hassell

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Seeing Through Sound is the eighteenth and final studio album by Jon Hassell. It was released on his own record label, Ndeya, on July 24, 2020 and is a companion piece to his previous release Listening to Pictures. It is the second volume in his Pentimento series.

01Track listing

All tracks are written by Jon Hassell.

No.TitleLength
1."Fearless"8:04
2."Moons of Titan"4:23
3."Unknown Wish"2:53
4."Delicado"4:02
5."Reykjavik"2:16
6."Cool Down Coda"1:41
7."Lunar"6:38
8."Timeless"8:11

02Personnel

Credits adapted from album liner notes.

Musicians

  • Jon Hassell, trumpet, keyboard electronics
  • Rick Cox, electric guitar, bass clarinet, sample orchestration (1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
  • Eivind Aarset, electric guitar, sampler (1)
  • John von Seggern, electric bass, synth, keyboard samples (1, 3, 4, 6, 8)
  • Kheir-Eddine M'Kachiche, violin, sampler (1)
  • Michel Redolfi - electronic textures (2)
  • Christoph Harbonnier - Lightwave (2)
  • Christian Wittman - Lightwave (2)
  • Peter Freeman - bass, electric bass (3, 5)
  • Hugh Marsh - violin orchestrations, electric violin and orchestration (4, 8)
  • Jan Bang - live sampling (5)
  • Sam Minae - rhythmized bass samples, percussion (7)
  • Adam Rudolph - African drums and orchestration (8)

Technical personnel

  • Jon Hassell, production
  • Rick Cox, co-production
  • Michel Redolfi, co-production (Moons of Titan)
  • Matthew Jones, executive production
  • Arnaud Mercier, recording engineer / production consultant
  • Al Carlson, mastering
  • Dan Kuehn, art direction
  • Arien Valizadeh, art direction
  • Taska Cleveland, art direction
  • Mati Klarwein, album art sources, inspiration
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