Seeing Through Sound
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{{Infobox album|
| name = Seeing Through Sound
| type = studio
| artist = Jon Hassell
| cover = SeeingThroughSound.jpg
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| released = {{Start date|2020|07|24}}
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio = Studio Venice, California
| genre = Avant-garde
| length = {{Duration|m=39|s=00}}
| label = Ndeya
| producer = Jon Hassell, Rick Cox
| prev_title = Listening to Pictures
| prev_year = 2018
| next_title =
| next_year =
| misc = Pentimento Volume Two
}}
Seeing Through Sound is the eighteenth and final studio album by Jon Hassell. It was released on his own record label, Ndeya, on July 24, 2020 and is a companion piece to his previous release Listening to Pictures.{{cite web |last1=Minsker |first1=Evan |title=Jon Hassell Announces New Album, Shares New Song "Fearless" |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/jon-hassell-announces-new-album-shares-new-song-fearless-listen/ |website=Pitchfork |publisher=Pitchfork |access-date=5 July 2020 |language=en-us}} It is considered the second volume in his pentimento series.
Track listing
{{Track listing
| all_writing = Jon Hassell
| title1 = Fearless
| length1 = 8:04
| title2 = Moons of Titan
| length2 = 4:23
| title3 = Unknown Wish
| length3 = 2:53
| title4 = Delicado
| length4 = 4:02
| title5 = Reykjavik
| length5 = 2:16
| title6 = Cool Down Coda
| length6 = 1:41
| title7 = Lunar
| length7 = 6:38
| title8 = Timeless
| length8 = 8:11
}}
Personnel
Credits adapted from album liner notes.
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Musicians
- Jon Hassell – trumpet, keyboard electronics
- Rick Cox – electric guitar, bass clarinet, sample orchestration (1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
- Eivind Aarset – electric guitar, sampler (1)
- John von Seggern – electric bass, synth, keyboard samples (1, 3, 4, 6, 8)
- Kheir-Eddine M'Kachiche – violin, sampler (1)
- Michel Redolfi - electronic textures (2)
- Christoph Harbonnier - Lightwave (2)
- Christian Wittman - Lightwave (2)
- Peter Freeman - bass, electric bass (3, 5)
- Hugh Marsh - violin orchestrations, electric violin and orchestration (4, 8)
- Jan Bang - live sampling (5)
- Sam Minae - rhythmized bass samples, percussion (7)
- Adam Rudolph - African drums and orchestration (8)
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Technical personnel
- Jon Hassell – production
- Rick Cox – co-production
- Michel Redolfi – co-production (Moons of Titan)
- Matthew Jones – executive production
- Arnaud Mercier – recording engineer / production consultant
- Al Carlson – mastering
- Dan Kuehn – art direction
- Arien Valizadeh – art direction
- Taska Cleveland – art direction
- Mati Klarwein – album art sources, inspiration
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References
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External links
- [https://jonhassell.com/seeing-through-sound/ Official link]
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