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Track List
01) Empire I
02) Empire II
03) Empire III
04) Empire IV
05) Empire V
06) Darbari Extension I
07) Darbari Extension II
01) Empire I
02) Empire II
03) Empire III
04) Empire IV
05) Empire V
06) Darbari Extension I
07) Darbari Extension II
2:00
4:53
7:09
5:14
3:40
13:52
7:23
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First Released
1983
Jazz
Enlightened
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The beautiful cover painting by Mati Klarwein serves as an appropriate visual analogy for the music contained herein: an abutting of two worlds, an insinuating blend of early-'80s high tech with ancient Southeast Asia. Over varying, non-specific rhythms supplied by Abdou Mboup, Jon Hassell weaves a music both evocative and plaintive, his modified trumpet sighing like an old Javanese horn pulled into the digital age on its way to what he calls a "coffee-colored" future where all ethnic traditions become one.
The astonishingly vocal sound he gets from that treated trumpet is certainly one of the signatures of this album and one of the more lovely sounds heard anywhere.
His compositions have a bit too much direction and drive to comfortably settle into the term ambient, but they remain as relaxed and gently meandering as a jungle stream. One especially nice feature is the subtle electronic burblings that whisper in the background, creating an enticingly busy sense of space.
Aka/Darbari/Java is an early high-water mark at the juncture between world and ambient musics.
Recorded at Grant Avenue Studios, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Drum recording: Polydor Paris.
Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York.
Cover painting from 'Inscapes' - Real Estate Paintings by Mati Klarwein, Harmony Books, Crown Publishers, New York.
(P)1983 EG Records Ltd. (C)1983 EG Records Ltd.
1. Empire 1:59
2. Empire II 4:51
3. Empire III 7:05
4. Empire IV 5:09
5. Empire V 3:37
6. Darbari Extension I 13:52
7. Darbari Extension II 7:20
User Album Review
This album is very much in the same style of the Fourth World series, with Hassell's computer treated trumpet playing over synth loops and Abdou Mboup's tuned drums.
The whole album is at once eerie, disturbing, and strangely soothing. The treated sound on the trumpet is mostly a lush harmonized sound, that gives it a moaning quality, like a distant train. Much of the tape loops are sampled sounds from an old Hollywood orchestration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Zd0E4nXw4#t=28
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The beautiful cover painting by Mati Klarwein serves as an appropriate visual analogy for the music contained herein: an abutting of two worlds, an insinuating blend of early-'80s high tech with ancient Southeast Asia. Over varying, non-specific rhythms supplied by Abdou Mboup, Jon Hassell weaves a music both evocative and plaintive, his modified trumpet sighing like an old Javanese horn pulled into the digital age on its way to what he calls a "coffee-colored" future where all ethnic traditions become one.
The astonishingly vocal sound he gets from that treated trumpet is certainly one of the signatures of this album and one of the more lovely sounds heard anywhere.
His compositions have a bit too much direction and drive to comfortably settle into the term ambient, but they remain as relaxed and gently meandering as a jungle stream. One especially nice feature is the subtle electronic burblings that whisper in the background, creating an enticingly busy sense of space.
Aka/Darbari/Java is an early high-water mark at the juncture between world and ambient musics.
Recorded at Grant Avenue Studios, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Drum recording: Polydor Paris.
Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York.
Cover painting from 'Inscapes' - Real Estate Paintings by Mati Klarwein, Harmony Books, Crown Publishers, New York.
(P)1983 EG Records Ltd. (C)1983 EG Records Ltd.
1. Empire 1:59
2. Empire II 4:51
3. Empire III 7:05
4. Empire IV 5:09
5. Empire V 3:37
6. Darbari Extension I 13:52
7. Darbari Extension II 7:20
User Album Review
This album is very much in the same style of the Fourth World series, with Hassell's computer treated trumpet playing over synth loops and Abdou Mboup's tuned drums.
The whole album is at once eerie, disturbing, and strangely soothing. The treated sound on the trumpet is mostly a lush harmonized sound, that gives it a moaning quality, like a distant train. Much of the tape loops are sampled sounds from an old Hollywood orchestration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Zd0E4nXw4#t=28
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