Tracks

1. Voiceprint (Blind From The Facts)
2. Pagan
3. Mombasa
4. Tikal
5. In The City Of Red Dust
6. Rain
7. Ba-Ta D
8. Warriors
9. Out Of Adedara

About This Album

There’s a unique restlessness to this music; ‘Mombasa’ is obviously rooted in African drumming. The pitch-shifting trumpet line is like an aerial sprite which moves over the musical landscape. But underneath the rooting bass of Daniel Schwartz embodies the nervous impatience of Hip-Hop and Rap. In effect the integrity of the unique sound of City:Works Of Fiction was so innovative that few if none could follow its lead. English Techno group 808 State would later remix ‘Voiceprint’. Others like The Orb and Howie B would cite the importance of the album. As The Wire so succinctly put it: "Face it, it's all been said about Hassell before, but perhaps this, at least, is worth restating: Jon Hassell's ideas and techniques have so thoroughly permeated lo- and hi-brow contemporary electronic music, albeit often in a third or fourth hand way . . . that it's difficult to think what contemporary music would sound like without his influence. I repeat: there's categorically no doubt that Hassell has had as an important effect on contemporary music as Miles Davis or Jimi Hendrix or James Brown or the Velvet Underground."