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S U L L A   S T R A D A Jon Hassell/i Magazzini Materiali Sonori 90066 1995 60.05   1  Sotto il cielo, in un punto qualsiasi del pianeta (Beneath the sky, in a point of the planet) 1.19 2  Passaggio a nord-ovest (North-west passage) 7.05 3  Ho avuto una visione, anch'io! (I had a vision, me too!) 1.16 4  Temperature variabili (Variable temperatures) 7.00 5  Camminavo nella sera piena di lilla (I walked in the lily-filled evening) 0.55 6  Tenera e la notte (Tender is the night) 13.28 7  Frontiera a sud-est (South-east frontier) 11.26 8  Tramonto. Caldo umido (Sunset. Hot and humid) 22.22 9  Notte. Umidita crescente (Night. Increasing humidity) 0.27   Jon Hassell—trumpet, synth, tapes Nana Vasconçelos—Udu drum Miguel Frasconi—percussion Michael Brook—guitar Julie Ann Anzilotti—narrator Marion D'Amburgo—narrator Sandro Lombardi—narrator Federico Tiezzi—narrator   All titles by Jon Hassell Produced by Jon Hassell Art direction and design by Ernest Thornton from set designs by Tanino Liberatore

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Album notes: The style of music which I call "Fourth World" is a continual exploration of ways in which exotic musics from the tribal cultures of the Southern hemisphere might be fused with the technological possibilities of the Western World (primitive/future). It is an attempt to create music which dissolves the dichotomy between the structural and the sensual (classical and popular in western terms). The music for Sulla Strada is partially inspired by ceremonial music of the Beti and Bemileke of Cameroon. This is blended with other compositional and less geographically-specific elements in an attempt to create a kind of musical scenery which is not entirely "primitive", not entirely "future" but someplace impossible to locate either chronologically or geographically. In the stage production one musical section gradually evolves into another over long stretches of time. The aim is to create a dense, ritualized sound atmosphere in which the stage action might take place and be formed within, in the same way that the density of water can be said to form the movements of a swimmer. Jon Hassell, April 1992 Florence

A segued soundtrack collection mixing new works with older pieces (track 8 is Charm from Possible Musics). Sometimes sounds too much like a soundtrack ie: that a part of the equation — in this case a stage performance based on Jack Kerouac's On the Road — is missing. The original performances took place in 1982 so this is very much in the Possible Musics/Dream Theory domain. The addition of short spoken sections from the stage show (in Italian) seem rather superfluous. •