FOURTH WORLD VOL.1: POSSIBLE MUSICS (WITH BRIAN ENO)

Simply mind-blowing! When I first heard this album in 1981, from the opening ten seconds I realized that my musical scapes would never be the same--that the whole world and all it's sound, natural and unnatural, were, from now on, to be part of the possibilities of any and all musics that might come my way. I was at the time on an Enossification period, that is, I was gathering and devouring anything and everything that Brian Eno may have touched or influenced. The fact that Brian himself never considered himself a musician so much as a sound artist made him even more endearing to me: Pushing the boundaries was what I was all about in terms of my musical appetites. Then you add to the mix Jon Hassell's stunning sound and you have music like you've never heard it before. What was most surprising here, however, was how beautiful--and how danceable--these primal futuristic mindscapes were. As a producer and visionary, Eno has very few rivals. RIP to the amazing percussionist involved in this project, Nana Vasconcelos. His work with Egberto Gismonti, Pat Metheny, and CoDoNa was monumental.