Jon Hassell announces new album, Seeing Through Sound

Treating sound as if paint, to be layered, textured and reimagined.

Jon Hassell is releasing a new album, titled Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two), via Ndeya this July.

For the album, Hassell aimed to ‘paint with sound’, with the production style mirroring the meaning of ‘pentimento’, defined as the “reappearance in a painting of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over.”

Seeing Through Sound by Jon Hassell

Seeing Through Sound follows the first edition in the Pentimento series in 2018 – Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume 1) – as well as Hassell’s reissue of his 1977 debut LP Vernal Equinox in March.

Head here to pre-order a copy in advance of Seeing Through Sound’s 24th July release, check out the artwork below.