Psychogeography: Zones Of Feeling

Gatefold 2LP with spot gloss cover and printed inner sleeves. Available on vinyl for the first time. Sleeve notes contain commentary from Hassell and new interviews with some of the other musicians involved, alongside archival images from the period and download card for the full album
Part of a series of three new archival releases from Ndeya that showcase Jon Hassell and group in the late 1980s exploring a radical tangent on his Fourth World sensibility. Psychogeography (subtitled ‘Zones Of Feeling’) is a situationist re-thinking of the 1990 City: Works Of Fiction album, a carefully edited sequence of alternate takes, demos and studio jams put together by Jon Hassell in 2014 using Debordian philosophy as his guide
This irreverent approach to the music reflects some of the key influences: specifically Public Enemy on the City album itself – Jon professed his love of the hyper-collaged sampledelic barrage of the Bomb Squad’s productions – and also the radical tape splicing that Teo Macero brought to his work with Miles Davis. The resulting sonic stew is a kind of futuristic sci-fi funk with an appropriately melted production aesthetic – instruments and samples jumping to the forefront then disappearing in the manner of the best dub records