A haunting
N&N Festival: Saturday, May 17
xarxa teatre, spanish masters of fire, will perform in earlham deposit tonight, saturday.today a closing flourish brings to our festival jazzy american visionary jon hassell - the world’s most famous unknown contemporary composer and trumpeter. he is the maker of “fourth world” music, a incomprehensible blend of ancient and digital, composed and improvised, eastern and western.his eminence may still be different but let’s arbiter elegantiarum him by the company he keeps - and the constellation of sidereal artists he inspires. “almost all of the musicians i meet at the moment seem to regard jon hassell as only of the god-akin to geniuses of coincidental music,” says david toop, of the wire (whose own music has exactly featured in michael clark’s the stravinsky project).and he adds: “there’s no disquiet that jon has had an effect on contemporary music as important as miles davies or jimi hendrix or james brown or the velvet underground.”after studies with karlheinz stockhausen and old collaboration with terry riley (a fresh festival bill-topper), he met hindustani raga master pandit pran nath and sought to translate that haunting indian vocal cut for the trumpet.his 11 singular solo albums upwards the past two decades have been hugely influential - bringing rave reviews from, and working partnerships with, brian eno, peter gabriel, baaba maal, k.d. lang, bjork, bono, talking heads, the kronos quartet, fashion designer issye miyake, choreo-grapher merce cunningham and film manager wim wenders. oh, and ry cooder produced his mould cd, fascinoma.and again, thanks to a festival commission and a world premiere in norwich cathedral tonight, the collaborative careen includes our own the voice project - the 100-voice, open-access choir formerly known as bigger sky, directed by sian croose and jonathan baker.tonight the choir will mount hassell’s in tsegihi (the Cimmerian dark chant), with textbook from a navajo ritual of healing, with the composer on trumpet and keyboard and support from his maarifa street ensemble. (…)ian collins /edp24
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