Re: Jon Hassells music

[Per Boysen <per@boysen.se>]

On 7 mar 2006, at 09.24, rune fagereng wrote:

> t I love Jon Hassells music !


YES! Finally a thread worth reading ;-)  I too love Hassels stuff.  
Bumped into his music back in -79 and it completely blew my mind. A  
friend said he was "using synthethizers" but I didn't believe so. It  
took years to dig out the fact that he actually was playing a trumpet  
into a harmonizer, using musical phrasing he had learned from  
studying for an indian singer. In the early eighties he was touring  
to a Swedish city and I managed to go there over the day/night to  
watch the concert. That was the first time I came to hear the use of  
"Freeze Reverb", a wonderful effect that now comes bundled with  
Ableton Live right into your laptop - if you want. That concert was  
also the first time I found out that the UDU was the instrument that  
created another sound I had fallen in love with from only hearing it  
on recordings. Today I jam with udu players and it's a rather common  
instrument around here.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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