Vernal Equinox (album)
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"I listened to a lot of live music and bought a heap of records. One of the most important was by a musician I'd never heard of - a trumpeter called Jon Hassell. It was called Vernal Equinox."--"The debt I owe to Jon Hassell" (2007) by Brian Eno |
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Vernal Equinox is the debut studio album by Jon Hassell, released in 1977 by Lovely Music, Ltd.
Track listing
| headline = Side one | all_music = Jon Hassell | title1 = Toucan Ocean | length1 = 3:42 | title2 = Viva Shona | length2 = 7:04 | title3 = Hex | length3 = 6:20 | title4 = Blues Nile | length4 = 9:51 }} {{track listing | headline = Side two | title1 = Vernal Equinox | length1 = 21:56 | title2 = Caracas Night September 11, 1975 | length2 = 2:10
Personnel
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- Jon Hassell – trumpet, electric piano (A1, A3), production
- Musicians
- Miguel Frasconi – bells and claves (A3)
- Andy Jerison – synthesizer (A3)
- Nicolas Kilbourn – mbira and talking drum (A3)
- David Rosenboom – synthesizer (A1, A3), mbira (A2), rattles (A3), goblet drum (B1), recording
- Naná Vasconcelos – congas (A1, B1, B2), shakers (A1, A3), bells (A2), talking drum (A2)
- William Winant – kanjira and rattles (A3)
- Production and additional personnel
- Michael Brook – recording
- Andy Jerison – recording
- Rich LePage – mixing
- Ariel Peeri – design
