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Armenian music, played on the Doudouk brings us into a related, electronic domain. Trumpet player Jon Hassell describes his music as Fourth World music. The idea is that apart from the first, second and third worlds, there is now a fourth: a globalising, electronic melting pot that has its own music.

In this context, we run into Brian Eno. Not the first, and surely not the last time. He was a collaborator on one of Jon Hassell’s forming albums. Here we meet him in the company of bassist Jah Wobble. Their 1995 album Spinner perfectly matches Jon Hassell’s Fourth World.

Playlist:

00:00 Hossein Alizadeh & Djivan Gasparyan – Armenian Romances (bewerkt)
03:51 Gurdjieff Folk Instrument Ensemble – Chant from a Holy Book
08:46 Gurdjieff Folk Instrument Ensemble – Duduki (bewerkt)
11:50 Jon Hassell – Sensuendo
16:40 Jon Hassell – Caravanesque
23:50 Brian Eno & Jah Wobble – Where we lived
26:38 Brian Eno & Jah Wobble – Marine Radio
31:17 Jon Hassell – Poinciana /
Brian Eno & Jah Wobble – Space Diary
35:37 Jon Hassell – Wide Sky
41:20 Eno & Wobble – Hidden Track van CD Spinner /
Eno & Wobble – Space Diary /
Studio Pankow – Linienbusse

Sources:
Endless Vision, 2005 World village 468047
Music of George I. Gurdjieff, 2011 ECM Records ECM 2236
Fascinoma, 1999 Water Lily Acoustics WLA-CS-70-SACD
Spinner, 1995 All Saints ASCD23
Linienbusse, 2005 City Center Offices TOWERBLOCKCD025

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