Power Spot

Jon Hassell | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 14, 1994)
• Label: Ecm Records
• ASIN: B0000031TV
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #627,879 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Power Spot

2. Passage D.E.

3. Solaire

4. Miracle Steps

5. Wing Melodies

6. The Elephant and the Orchid

7. Air

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best from one of the best, February 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Power Spot (Audio CD)

Too bad we haven't heard from Hassell lately other than his forays into dub / electronica (which really has about a billion practicioners, really...) Power Spot is a perfect name for this recording - it has the power to transport you to a amphibious world in the swamps while riding on the back of the winding/swimming reptilian beast evoked by Hassell's processed trumpet. (Note: if you like Kenny G, Celine Dion, Rippingtons' - leave this review as fast you can - this music requires sincere listening and thought).

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless, sublime, beautiful, otherworldly., April 29, 2003

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D. Garcia "cordedpoodle" (los angeles, ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Power Spot (Audio CD)

Timeless, sublime, beautiful, otherworldly. Forget most of today's derivitive, mixing hip hop, .... This is the real thing. Hassell was there on Terry Riley's original "In C" recording that changed music for all time. He's the first trumpeter with a new sound since Miles. He's deep into it, micro rhythms, polyphony, microtones, electronics everything. THERE IS NO ONE ELSE LIKE HIM. And this is arguably one of the best. Those who think Eno and his ilk invented alternative music should do a little more research, and find out who the real progenitors are.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Music to do Vulcan mind-melds by, July 3, 1999

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Larry Bottorff ([e-mail]) (Moundridge, Kansas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Power Spot (Audio CD)

In the Ayn Rand book "The Fountainhead", a young music student finds the architect protagonist, Howard Rourke, standing on a ledge in a Pennsylvania forest overlooking his latest architectural achievment: a set of buildings for a retreat center. They both look at the elegantly proportioned structures which fit perfectly into the surrounding woods. The student finally tells Rourke that he now has a reason to go on with music, with life--just for knowing there are such people as Rourke and there is such accomplishment. Hassell has taken modern Minimalism, so wonderfully expressed in art and architechture, and created aural Minimalist art. My particular music-student-meets-Rourke experience happens every time I hear Passage D.E. I can feel Spock's fingers at first, but then everything goes, well, somewhere else.