{{more citations needed|date=July 2016}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Power Spot | type = Album | artist = Jon Hassell | cover = Power Spot.jpg | alt = | released = 1986 | recorded = October 1983 and December 1984 | venue = | studio = | genre = | length = 47:43 | label = ECM | producer = Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois | chronology = Jon Hassell | prev_title = Aka / Darbari / Java: Magic Realism | prev_year = 1983 | next_title = The Surgeon of the Nightsky Restores Dead Things by the Power of Sound | next_year = 1987 }}
'''''Power Spot''''' is an album by the American trumpet player and composer Jon Hassell. It was released in 1986 through ECM Records.<ref name="ECM discography">[http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1300/1327.php ECM discography] accessed September 27, 2011</ref> It was recorded in 1983 and 1984.
The cover art reproduces the Whirling Snakes or Whirling Mountain sandpainting of the Navajo Shooting Chant, one of the most important and most complex of the Navajo healing ceremonies.<ref>[https://www.ursusbooks.com/pages/books/160616/franc-j-newcomb/whirling-snakes-or-whirling-mt-sandpaintings-of-the-navajo-shooting-chant Whirling Snakes or Whirling Mt. Sandpaintings of the Navajo Shooting Chant]. UrsusBooks.com</ref><ref>Newcomb, Franc Johnson and Reichard, Gladys A (1937). [https://books.google.com/books?id=gTszrHsUjAUC&pg=PA49 Sandpaintings of the Navajo Shooting Chant]. pp.53, 78, plate 10. {{ISBN|9780486231419}}</ref>
==Reception== The Allmusic review by Mark Kirschenmann awarded the album 4 stars stating "While not as stunning as ''Possible Musics'', ''Power Spot'' is nonetheless one of the most significant recordings from this utterly unique musician".<ref name="Allmusic">Kirschenmann, M. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/power-spot-r83103/review Allmusic Review] accessed September 27, 2011</ref> {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''Allmusic'' | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/>}}
==Track listing== :''All compositions by Jon Hassell'' # "Power Spot" - 7:07 # "Passage D.E." - 5:25 # "Solaire" - 6:49 # "Miracle Steps" - 4:21 # "Wing Melodies" - 7:33 # "The Elephant and the Orchid" - 11:08 # "Air" - 5:20 :''Recorded at Grant Avenue Studio in Hamilton, Canada in October 1983 and December 1984''
==Personnel== *Jon Hassell - trumpet *J. A. Deane - acoustic and electronic percussion, alto flute *Jean-Philippe Rykiel - electronic keyboards, facsimile bass, percussion, strings, etc. *Michael Brook - guitar, electronic treatments (tracks 1, 2 & 6) *Richard Horowitz - electronic keyboards (tracks 1 & 2) *Brian Eno - electric bass (tracks 3 & 5) *Richard Armin, Paul Armin - RAAD electro-acoustic strings (tracks 2 & 4) *Miguel Frasconi - flute (track 7)
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