Vs: Re: any written material on Hassell`s harmonic structures/improvisation-approach

[rune fagereng <rune_fagereng@yahoo.no>]

Thanks Boysen !

I also got a tip on a book. 
Rune F

There's a bit on Jon in David Toop's book Ocean of
Sound.. A wonderful book I'm sure any Hassell fan
would enjoy!

Chris
--- Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> skrev:

> Fra: Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>
> Emne: Re: any written material on Hassell`s harmonic
> structures/improvisation-approach 
> Dato: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:23:07 +0200
> Til: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> 
> On 19 aug 2007, at 18.51, rune fagereng wrote:
> 
> >> I would like to know and understand more about
> >> Hassells music. Are there something written on
> this
> >> subject? Like what are this harmoni-structure on
> -
> >> lets say,  "open secrets" ? How does he think and
> >> approach when improvising?
> 
> 
> There's some texts at his web site and some articles
> on the internet,  
> that you should find by Google. As far as I remember
> no one have  
> asked him those questions though... or maybe he
> refuses to answer. At  
> least I know he started out studying singing with
> this Indian male  
> singer I can't remember the name of right now. After
> a wile Jon  
> started bringing his trumpet, instead of singing, to
> the lectures. In  
> India you learn by playing/singing together with the
> master by trying  
> to copy the phrasing. So what he has always been
> doing is actually to  
> play trumpet as close as possible to the particular
> Indian vocal  
> singing tradition (sorry, don't know much about
> Indian vocal  
> tradition either). When coming back (to New York, I
> think it was) he  
> wanted to expand his playing into a "music style" by
> adding drums. He  
> took the decision to not fall back on the Indian
> tabla tradition  
> because he felt it would be too much of the same
> spice crammed into  
> the same sandwich (oops, my expression ;-) and
> that's why he looked  
> to African rhythms. He recorded the Burundi Drummers
> (West  
> African..?) and simply flew them into some tracks on
> the multi track  
> tape recorder to go along with his "indian singing"
> trumpet lines  
> (sometimes adding a fifth by harmonizer). Myself I
> have always loved   
> the way these hand drumming does not play a certain
> beat pattern  
> (rather sounding like thunder or zebras running by
> etc) and maybe the  
> explanation to this is that his early recordings
> were created with  
> this collage technique? I don't know if he played
> the trumpet lines  
> listening to those
> zebra-thunder-no-beat-drumming-clatter-cluster or  
> if he recorded the trumpet first and then spliced in
> the drumming  
> tape later? Would be nice to find out the truth
> about that.
> 
> I'm not sure there is much "harmony structure" at
> all in his music? I  
> don't know about his inner ways of approaching
> improvisation but to  
> my ears it sounds very Indian, like the Raga
> tradition; using a theme  
> an stretching it into different directions during
> different parts of  
> the evolving piece. That music is more about Time
> than Harmony.
> 
> On last thing; very early he mounted the term
> "Coffee Colored Music"  
> as a way to describe the music he wanted to do. He
> meant that he  
> takes influences from all cultures and colors and if
> you mix all  
> colors of the entire world it would end up as -
> coffee colored. This  
> was "world music for the future" before that term
> "world music" was  
> even invented by media.
> 
> Think I reached the bottom of my all too thin Hassel
> knowledge by  
> that - over and out.
> 
> Greetings from Sweden
> 
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> www.looproom.com (international)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 



      
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