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Thanks Boysen !
I also got a tip on a book.
Rune F
There's a bit on Jon in David Toop's book Ocean of
Sound.. A wonderful book I'm sure any Hassell fan
would enjoy!
Chris
--- Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> skrev:
> Fra: Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>
> Emne: Re: any written material on Hassell`s harmonic
> structures/improvisation-approach
> Dato: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:23:07 +0200
> Til: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>
> On 19 aug 2007, at 18.51, rune fagereng wrote:
>
> >> I would like to know and understand more about
> >> Hassells music. Are there something written on
> this
> >> subject? Like what are this harmoni-structure on
> -
> >> lets say, "open secrets" ? How does he think and
> >> approach when improvising?
>
>
> There's some texts at his web site and some articles
> on the internet,
> that you should find by Google. As far as I remember
> no one have
> asked him those questions though... or maybe he
> refuses to answer. At
> least I know he started out studying singing with
> this Indian male
> singer I can't remember the name of right now. After
> a wile Jon
> started bringing his trumpet, instead of singing, to
> the lectures. In
> India you learn by playing/singing together with the
> master by trying
> to copy the phrasing. So what he has always been
> doing is actually to
> play trumpet as close as possible to the particular
> Indian vocal
> singing tradition (sorry, don't know much about
> Indian vocal
> tradition either). When coming back (to New York, I
> think it was) he
> wanted to expand his playing into a "music style" by
> adding drums. He
> took the decision to not fall back on the Indian
> tabla tradition
> because he felt it would be too much of the same
> spice crammed into
> the same sandwich (oops, my expression ;-) and
> that's why he looked
> to African rhythms. He recorded the Burundi Drummers
> (West
> African..?) and simply flew them into some tracks on
> the multi track
> tape recorder to go along with his "indian singing"
> trumpet lines
> (sometimes adding a fifth by harmonizer). Myself I
> have always loved
> the way these hand drumming does not play a certain
> beat pattern
> (rather sounding like thunder or zebras running by
> etc) and maybe the
> explanation to this is that his early recordings
> were created with
> this collage technique? I don't know if he played
> the trumpet lines
> listening to those
> zebra-thunder-no-beat-drumming-clatter-cluster or
> if he recorded the trumpet first and then spliced in
> the drumming
> tape later? Would be nice to find out the truth
> about that.
>
> I'm not sure there is much "harmony structure" at
> all in his music? I
> don't know about his inner ways of approaching
> improvisation but to
> my ears it sounds very Indian, like the Raga
> tradition; using a theme
> an stretching it into different directions during
> different parts of
> the evolving piece. That music is more about Time
> than Harmony.
>
> On last thing; very early he mounted the term
> "Coffee Colored Music"
> as a way to describe the music he wanted to do. He
> meant that he
> takes influences from all cultures and colors and if
> you mix all
> colors of the entire world it would end up as -
> coffee colored. This
> was "world music for the future" before that term
> "world music" was
> even invented by media.
>
> Think I reached the bottom of my all too thin Hassel
> knowledge by
> that - over and out.
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> www.looproom.com (international)
>
>
>
>
>
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