Post #292364 by tiki mick on Fri, Mar 16, 2007 9:45 AM

One of Jon Hassells recent albums was "fascinoma". He does a verion of caravan that is quite interesting.

I don't count his music as real exotica because there are no real happy themes there. It's all very serious, and basically minor key stuff. Or even Key-less stuff. With most exotica, even if it veers off to the dark and mysterious, it usually comes back to some happy jazzy home. Hassell's stuff does not.

However, his song titles and I think his general aim is to be really exotic. The songs always feature a lot of "native" style percussion. But be warned, he has a lot of electronica style stuff in there too. His main collaborater has been Brian Eno in the past.

But, I have to love an artist with the album title "the surgeon of the night sky restores dead things with the power of light" (or something like that) And that album cover shows a mangrove swamp with herons in it.

Is his style world music? probably, but he has the typical westerners approach to it, which is very much what denny-baxter-lyman were trying to do.

INMHO