JON HASSELL "VERNAL EQUINOX" (LOVELY MUSIC, 1976/77)

Jon Hassell, trumpet, fender rhodes (1, 3)
Naná Vasconcelos, congas (1, 5, 6), shakers (1, 3), bells (2), talking drum (2)
William Winant, kanjira and rattles (3)
Miguel Frasconi, bells and claves (3)
Nicolas Kilbourn, mbira and talking drum (3)
David Rosenboom, mbira (2), rattles (3), tabla & dumbek (5)

Andy Jerison, [Arp Synthesizer Alteration] (3)
David Rosenboom, [Buchla Synthesizer Alteration] (1, 3)
Larry Polansky, [Special Rhodes Tuning] (1, 3)

Additional sounds:
Ocean (1)
Tropical birds (2)
Drone: Serge synthesizer (4, 5)
Drone: Motorola scalatron (256Hz pitch standard) (5)
Night creatures of Altamira, Distant barking by Perrasita (6)

Fender Rhodes is specially tuned and altered by Buchla and Arp Synthesizers



1. Toucan Ocean (3:53)
2. Viva Shona     (7:08)
3. Hex     (6:29)
4. Blues Nile     (9:59)
5. Vernal Equinox (22:03)
6. Caracas Night September 11, 1975  (2:14)


Recorded at the York University Electronic Media Studios (Toronto, Ontario), October/November 1976.
Mixdown and additional recording: Mastertone Recording Studios (New York), September/October 1977.


Lovely Music LCD 1021 (1990)

Originally released on LP in 1977 (Lovely Music LML 1021)