catalogue

SHABASON, JOSEPH

THE FELLOWSHIP (WESTERN VINYL)

SHABASON, JOSEPH - THE FELLOWSHIP 144620
format:
1 LP
release:
23.04.2021
label:
WESTERN VINYL
item ID:
144620
barcode:
0844667051575
Across eight tracks that mesh spacious, jazz-laced composition with fourth-world and adult-contemporary tonality, Toronto saxophonist Joseph Shabason sketches an auditory map of the transcendence, unity, conditioning, and eventual renunciation of his upbringing in an Islamic and Jewish dual-faith household.

The resulting album The Fellowship bears the name of the insular Islamic community Shabason's traditionally Jewish parents belonged to from a time before he was even born; a mental and spiritual push-pull which continued shaping, even controlling, his outlook well into his adulthood.

As a listening experience The Fellowship follows a chronological arc that spans three generations covering his parents' early lives, his own spiritual and physical adolescence, and his subsequent struggle to eschew the problematic habituations of such a conflicted past.

On The Fellowship, as on prior albums that bear his name, Joseph Shabason does what only the best instrumental music makers can: tell a story with emotional clarity that conveys even the subtlest of feelings, all without singing a single word.

As wordless as ever-- with as complex a theme as ever-- this album may be his most emotionally articulate yet.

Most importantly, those lost in the woods of repression and self-doubt that organized religion can be at its worst now have The Fellowship to help guide them into a softer light.

R.I.Y.L. Brian Eno, Jon Hassell, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Laraaji, Robert Rich, Harold Budd
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. LIFE WITH MY GRANDPARENTS
  • 1.2. ESCAPE FROM NORTH YORK
  • 1.3. THE FELLOWSHIP
  • 1.4. 0-13
  • 1.5. 13-15
  • 1.6. 15-19
  • 1.7. COMPARATIVE WORLD RELIGIONS
  • 1.8. SO LONG