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Artists: Jon Hassell, Ry Cooder, Jacky Terrasson
Label: Water Lily Acoustics
Category: Music

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars 11 reviews
Sales Rank: 15755

Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

UPC: 707723007025
EAN: 0707723007025
ASIN: B00000J829

Release Date: June 22, 1999
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Tracks:

  • Nature Boy
  • Datura
  • Caravanesque
  • Wide Sky
  • Mevlana Duke
  • Secretly Happy
  • Poinciana
  • Sensuendo
  • Suite De Caravan
  • Estate (Summer)

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Why No SACD?   September 6, 2007
Gordon Danis (Eastchester, New York United States)
This is a great record. Engineer Kavi Alexander and his tube equipment captures Hassell's harmonic trumpet like nobody else has before, and pianist Jacky Terrasson sounds stunning, full, vigorous. As compared to, say, "Fourth World Volume 1; Possible Music," or "Aka Darbari Java" "Fascinoma" is relatively tame, and perhaps more jazz then ambient, but the lines blur and categories demonstrate their uselessness with an artist like Jon Hassell.

My question is this: Since Water Lily made another album from the same session into an SACD ("Hollow Bamboo by Ronu Majundar,) then why not the increased realism afforded by the SACD for "Fascinoma"?
We need some ambient SACDs



5 out of 5 stars Listen to it forever   February 17, 2005
K. Kirkland (Millburn, NJ)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

This CD is never going to be very far from my player. It is the type of music that unfolds to you over time, again and again giving you something new everytime. It doesnt demand your attention but if you want, you could be utterly absorbed in the infinite improvisation, moodiness, and mirage like tempos. Besides the bamboo flute player, Hassell, Cooder and drone players, the pianist is about as good as it gets.


5 out of 5 stars Beautifully Stange   March 14, 2004
E. Lorge (Planet Earth)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful

I just heard this CD a few nights ago at a friends dinner party and it grabbed my attention right away...(in a subtle way, that is).

It is a strange sonic mix of electronics, primitivism and jazz. The mood is predominately VERY subtle and hypnotic; if I remember correctly, there is not a bar faster than andante on the entire CD. But trust me, this is a good thing.

And so is the fact that Ry Cooder produced it...


5 out of 5 stars Best of Outside Ambient   November 3, 2001
A Music Lover (the seaside)
29 out of 31 found this review helpful

The opening amazingly beautiful reading of "Nature Boy" is so stunning when Ronu Majumdar's flute begins it's circling run around Hassell's
solo trumpet. wow. we know we are in for something unique and amazing.

This is Hassell's first CD to include covers and as a fan, I welcome this as a trend. This CD is at once beautiful, odd, provocative, and
occasionally challenging. I suppose you could expect that with a meeting of Hassell, Cooder, Majumdar, and Terrasson.

Like most Water Lily cds, it's Recorded live to stereo master in that Santa Barbara seminary with all that fetishist tube gear as usual. Music like
this sums up the underlying vibe of Santa Barbara.


5 out of 5 stars Perfect   August 11, 2001
K. Drygiannakis (Greece)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful

Misty like a winter evening. Gradually, evening images give their place to night dreams. It is incredible that such things can happen on disc.

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