Aka/Darbari/Java: Magic Realism | ||||
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Released | 1983 | |||
Recorded | 1982 | |||
Studio | Grant Avenue Studios, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | |||
Genre | World, ambient | |||
Length | 44:10 | |||
Label | Editions EG EGED 31 | |||
Producer | Jon Hassell, Daniel Lanois | |||
Jon Hassell chronology | ||||
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Aka/Darbari/Java: Magic Realism is a 1983 album by American trumpet player and composer Jon Hassell, released on the label Editions EG. It was co-produced by Daniel Lanois and features Abdou M'Boup on drums. [1]
The album features Hassell manipulating and looping fragments of sampled sound. [2] In the liner notes, Hassell describes the album as "a proposal for a 'coffee-colored' classical music of the future." [3]
The cover painting is by Mati Klarwein. [1]
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
The Village Voice | A− [3] |
AllMusic's Brian Olewnick described the album as "an insinuating blend of early-'80s high tech with ancient Southeast Asia," calling it "an early high-water mark at the juncture between world and ambient musics." [1] For The Village Voice, Robert Christgau called it "dandy background music--more fluid and organic than Dream Theory in Malaya if also more amorphous than his first Eno collaboration." [3]
In his 1995 book Ocean of Sound, David Toop writes that on Aka/Darbari/Java "the perfume of ethnopoetics was supplemented by parallels with literature and the advanced technology of hyperreality." [2]
All tracks composed by Jon Hassell unless otherwise noted.