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Jon Hassell: trumpet, keyboard, Peter Freeman: bass, laptop, Jan Bang: live sampling, Jamie Muhoberac: keyboard, laptop, Rick Cox: guitar, loops, Kheir Eddine M Kachiche: violin, Eivind Aarset: guitar, Helge Andreas Norbakken: drums, Pete Lockett: drums
25 years after his highly influential “Power Spot” album, Jon Hassell returns to ECM with his collective Maarifa Street and some spacious Fourth World dub-montage music, his uniquely vocal trumpet sailing forth into mysterious soundscapes. Jon Hassell describes “Last night the moon” as “a continuous piece, almost symphonic, with a cinematic construction” and drifting “clouds made out of many motifs”. Core material is drawn from a session at Studios La Buissonne near Avignon in April 2008, with detail added in Los Angeles in November and December. Live recordings from Courtrais, Belgium and London, as well as a remix of a piece originally created for a Wim Wenders movie, are also integrated into the atmospheric, filmic flow, along with short samples snared throughout 2008.
Anouar Brahem: oud François Couturier: piano Klaus Gesing: bass clarinet, soprano saxophone Björn Meyer: bass Orchestra della Svizzera italiana Pietro Mianiti: conductor
Vijay Iyer: composer/piano Prashant Bhargava: film director/editor International Contemporary Ensemble
Håkon Kornstad: tenor saxophone, flute, voice Ketil Bjørnstad: piano Birger Mistereggen: percussion Oslo Chamber Choir conducted by Håkon Daniel Nystedt
Nils Økland: fiddles Per Steinar Lie: guitars Ørjan Haaland: drums
Maria Pia De Vito: voice François Couturier: piano Anja Lechner: violoncello Michele Rabbia: percussion, electronics
Jon Balke: piano, keyboards, electronics, tongoné, darbouka, percussion; Helge Andreas Norbakken: sabar, gorong, djembe, talking drum, shakers, percussion; Emilie Stoesen Christensen: vocals; Erland Dahlen: drums; Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen: poetry reading