City: Works of Fiction

Album by Jon Hassell

City: Works of Fiction is a studio album by American trumpeter Jon Hassell that extends his Fourth World approach, combining electronically processed trumpet with ambient sound design and urban, polyrhythmic grooves. Its themes revolve around imagined ethnographies of modern cities, drawing on ambient, experimental, and world fusion idioms.
First released: 1990

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Voiceprint (Blind From the Facts)
    5:47
  2. 2.
    Pagan
    6:27
  3. 3.
    Mombasa
    8:04
  4. 4.
    Tikal
    3:07
  5. 5.
    In the City of Red Dust
    5:39
  6. 6.
    Rain
    6:29
  7. 7.
    Ba-Ya D.
    6:02
  8. 8.
    Warriors
    9:23
  9. 9.
    Out of Adedara
    5:06

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