Jon Hassell - Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One) [CD]

Format: CD 
Catalogue No.: NDEYA1CDR
Barcode: 5056818810671
Release Date: 02 Oct 2026
Genre: Ambient/Drone

 pen·ti·men·to / noun: Reappearance in a painting of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over.
 ‘Listening To Pictures’ was the first new album in nine years from Jon Hassell, the musical visionary and hugely influential figure in new music.
 Continuing his lifelong exploration of the possibilities of the studio, fragments of performance were sampled, looped, overdubbed and re-arranged into beguiling unexpected shapes.
 Hassell applied the painterly technique of ‘pentimento’ to the arrangements, teasing out
texture by the careful overlaying of sound, or a carefully timed reveal of the delicate bones pinning the frame of a track together.
 Smeared, gauzy, gorgeous atmospherics to perfectly soundtrack a vertical listening experience.
 Now available on CD in four-pp digipack.

Tracklisting
Dreaming
Picnic
Slipstream
Al Kongo Udu 
Pastorale Vassant 
Manga Scene
Her First Rain 
Ndeya