Tune of the Week: Jon Hassell's Fourth World Music

Jon Hassell was a trumpeter who played with electronic treatments. In combining world musics he would study with his own electronic techniques he would craft a new kind of music he dubbed “Fourth World” music. The above composition was inspired by the music and cultures of Malayan aboriginies known as the Senoi and the Semelai. The Senoi’s custom of dream sharing and the Semelai’s water-centered folk music helped Hassell create a soundtrack to a serenely different world.