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Water Lily Acoustics
1999 • 60:30
1 Nature Boy (Ahbez) 2:45
2 Datura (Hassell) 4:31
3 Caravanesque (Ellington/Tizol) 7:18
4 Wide Sky
(Hassell/Cooder/Cox/Majumdar) 6:35
5 Mevlana Duke (Hassell) 6:16
6 Secretly Happy
(Hassell/Majumdar/Muhoberac) 6:33
7 Poinciana (Bernier/Simon) 4:28
8 Sensuendo (Hassell/Majumdar) 5:15
9 Suite de Caravan (Ellington/Tizol) 12:09
10 Estate (Summer) (Brighetti/Martino) 4:40
Jon Hassell—trumpet
Ry Cooder—guitar
Jacky Terrason—piano
Ronu Majumdar—bansuri
Rick Cox—guitar, bass clarinet, samples
Jamie Muhoberac—zendrum
Joachim Cooder—drums
Rick Masterson—tambura
Rose Okada—tambura
Produced by Ry Cooder
album notes
After twentysome years of recordings and performances, this is the first time I've ever played someone else's song.
With this recording I locate myself squarely within that aspect of music which is fundamental and irreducible: the beauty of the sound. This is what Dane Rudyar calls "tone-magic"—a concept derived from ancient practice wherein the quality of the tone itself communicates meaning quite apart from any further arrangement of an "artifice" of music.
At the same time I celebrate here my first contacts with musical exotica in the form of certain songs and melodies heard as a child on the radio or in movie scores. This music created a kind of permanent technicolor oasis in my spirit—a place where I always want to stop for a cool refreshing drink, whether from Duke Ellington and Juan Tizol's 'Caravan', or Ravel or raga or gamelan or Gil, or João or Joujouka—and a place which became the underlying spring from which flowed my "fourth world" musical paradigm.
jon hassell
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