catalogue

SHABASON, JOSEPH

ANNE (WESTERN VINYL)

SHABASON, JOSEPH - ANNE 129061
format:
1 CD
release:
16.11.2018
label:
WESTERN VINYL
item ID:
129061
barcode:
0843563106280
Anne, the second album By Toronto saxophonist and composer Joseph Shabason, is a tonal essay on degenerative illness.

Delicately and compassionately woven with interviews of Shabason's mother from whom the album takes its name, Anne finds its creator navigating a labyrinth of subtle and tragic emotions arising from his mother's struggle with Parkinson's disease.

Across the nine vivid postcards of jazz-laden ambience that comprise the album, Shabason unwraps these difficult themes with great care and focus revealing the unseen aspects of degenerative diseases that force us to re-examine common notions of self, identity, and mortality.

Shabason's uncanny ability to manoeuvre through such microscopic feelings is mirrored by his capacity to execute a similar tightrope-walk through musical genres.

His music occupies a specific space that is as palpable as it is difficult to pin labels to.

R.I.Y.L. Brian Eno, Jon Hassell, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Laraaji, Robert Rich, Harold Budd
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. I THOUGHT THAT I COULD GET AWAY WITH IT
  • 1.2. DEEP DARK DIVIDE
  • 1.3. DANGEROUS CHEMICALS
  • 1.4. DONNA LEE
  • 1.5. FOREST RUN
  • 1.6. FRED AND LIL
  • 1.7. TOH KOH
  • 1.8. NOVEMBER
  • 1.9. TREAT IT LIKE A WIN BAR