| Aka/Darbari/Java: Magic Realism | ||||
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| Released | 1983 | |||
| Recorded | 1982 | |||
| Studio | Grant Avenue Studios, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | |||
| Genre | World, ambient | |||
| Length | 44:10 | |||
| Label | Editions EG EGED 31 | |||
| Producer | Jon Hassell, Daniel Lanois | |||
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Aka/Darbari/Java: Magic Realism is a 1983 album by American trumpet player and composer Jon Hassell, released on the label Editions EG. It was co-produced by Daniel Lanois and features Abdou M'Boup on drums. [1]
The album features Hassell manipulating and looping fragments of sampled sound. [2] In the liner notes, Hassell describes the album as "a proposal for a 'coffee-colored' classical music of the future." [3]
The cover painting is by Mati Klarwein. [1]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| The Village Voice | A− [3] |
AllMusic's Brian Olewnick described the album as "an insinuating blend of early-'80s high tech with ancient Southeast Asia," calling it "an early high-water mark at the juncture between world and ambient musics." [1] For The Village Voice , Robert Christgau called it "dandy background music--more fluid and organic than Dream Theory in Malaya if also more amorphous than his first Eno collaboration." [3]
In his 1995 book Ocean of Sound , David Toop writes that on Aka/Darbari/Java "the perfume of ethnopoetics was supplemented by parallels with literature and the advanced technology of hyperreality." [2]
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