B2 - Win - Untitled

From the album Anne.  Available November 16, 2018 from Western Vinyl.

Bandcamp https://josephshabason.bandcamp.com/album/anne
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/anne/1427808233?ls=1&app=itunes
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/19FD6RN5K3xYFThAHM4fGy?si=0hUO0rFVQAigvSPTvJL_4w
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv182

Joseph Shabason
Twitter https://twitter.com/JosephShabason
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/josephshabason/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/josephshabason

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. On Anne’s second track “Deep Dark Divide” rays of effected saxophone shine behind clouds of digital synthesizer that echoes the sound of jazz in the late 80s, but with a Jon Hassell-esque depth of sensibility that consciously subverts the stylistic inoffensiveness of that era. There is detail and idiosyncrasy beneath Shabason’s dawn-of-the-CD-era sheen that elevates the album far beyond a mere aesthetic exercise.

Still, the sounds on Anne are not so experimentally opaque as to stand in the way of the album’s through-line of sincerity and emotionality. When dissonance is employed it is punctual and meaningful, like on album-middler “Fred and Lil” where a six-minute cascade of breathy textures builds suddenly to an agitated growl, only to abruptly give way to Anne Shabason speaking intimately about her relationship to her own parents. Snippets of such conversations see her taking on something like a narrator role across Anne while the sound of her voice itself is sometimes effected to become a musical texture entwined into the fabric of the songs without always being present or audible.  The subsequent piece “Toh Koh” then drifts into playful disorientation as a lone female voice echoes the two syllables of the title, recalling the vocal techniques of composer Joan La Barbara, or even the light-hearted mantras of Lucky Dragons. From here the album veers back onto its aesthetic thoroughfare with “November” where Shabason lays muted brass textures atop a wavepool of electric chords provided by none other than the ambient cult-hero Gigi Masin, one of Anne’s many integral collaborators.

The serene tragedy of the album distils itself gracefully into the ironically titled album closer “Treat it Like a Wine Bar” wherein flutters of piano and mournfully whispered woodwinds seem to evaporate particle by delicate particle, leaving the listener with a faint emotional afterglow like a dream upon waking. There is a corollary to be drawn here with what it must be like to feel one’s own mind and body drift away slowly until nothing remains, while the collection of memories and abilities that we use to denote the “self” softens into eternity. On Anne, it is precisely this fragile exchange of tranquillity and anguish that Joseph Shabason has proven his singular ability to articulate.

Anne

Joseph Shabason - "Fred and Lil"

May - 2019 edition of the **Shaped by What We Love** Threads radio show with Olaf Stephenson & Rajinald Perrin live from the Threads Radio studios, The Cause, Tottenham, London......psyched out rock, funk, jazz & folk.
Music from Wilma Vitra, Ishmael Ensemble, Black Flowers, Hawkwind, Greg Foat, Spider Harrison, Lunar Grave, The Flying Lizards, The Heliocentrics, Unity, Aphrodites Child, The Syndicats, Annette Peacock, Quack Quack, The Strawberry Alarm Clock....

Shaped By What We Love - May 2019

Shaped By What We Love - Threads Radio - May - 2019

Krokofant - Q Part 1

October - 2019 edition of the **Shaped by What We Love** Threads radio show with Olaf Stephenson & Rajinald Perrin live from the Threads Radio studios, The Cause, Tottenham, London......featuring music bought from a recent trip to Portland/Seattle and Vancouver!!!.....crazy funky fuzzy psychedelics/jazz and folk

Shaped By What We Love - inc *PORTLAND TO VANCOUVER mix - October 2019

"Liquid Talk" is taken from "Entering and Emerging" the second full-length album by Melbourne based composer and musician Zoltan Fecso. Following up his debut ‘Shimmer Raga’ on Hush Hush Records, Zoltan expands on his distinctive pointillist compositions, continuing to explore simplicity and limitation.

Releases January 29, 2020 

Written and recorded by Zoltan Fecso 
Field recordings from Aulus-les-Bains, Saman and Toulouse, France 
Mastering by Lawrence English 
Artwork by Sotiris Gonis

Pre Order: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/entering-and-emerging

Zoltan Fecso - Liquid Talk

I Like To Sleep - Circles

After a 3 month hiatus of physical releases, we’re delighted to have come through the other side to be able to resume our schedule of vinyl-effect CDrs. The catalog resumes with ‘Below’ by Cologne, Germany’s Jens Pauly, an artist whose album ‘Vihne’ was released by us last year.

Vihne is a ‘city’ album, full of dust and artificial light whereas Below is more free and open as it was inspired by the natural world. The cover image was taken by Jens last Autumn and in this record, he tried to reflect the peaceful moments he experienced during this time. There’s a calmness to the sound underpinned by a satisfying melancholy, as we take in these breezy reflections.

Below perpetuates the subtle beauty of a timeless moment. It's fragile, and yet, in all its reduced textures, it's demanding in its overall emotional undergrowth – closely intertwined in hope and yearning.

credits
Written and produced by Jens Pauly
Mastered by Salz mastering
Artwork and design by Jens Pauly
Words by Ralph Schmidt

Below

wlr073 Jens Pauly - Below

Track #1 from debut album "A Courteous Invitation To An Uninhabited Anabatic Prism"

Vinyl and digital pre-order: https://decolonizeyourmind.bandcamp.com

https://decolonizeyourmind.net

A Courteous Invitation To An Uninhabited Anabatic Prism

Mike The Headless Chicken

1. John Cage - Radio mix (00:00:08)
2. Magik Markers - Hymn For 2020 (00:00:50)
3. Liv.e - Moving On Felt Great and This Feels (Good)... (00:05:50)
4. Model Home - Cold Gettin' Dog (00:07:25)
5. Maths Balance Volumes - Headwaters Of The Tone River (00:11:34)
6. Oneohtrix Point Never - Imago (00:14:08)
7. Olivier Alary & Johannes Malfatti - I Can't Even See Myself (00:17:42)
8. Erik K Skodvin - Dream Of Becoming An Animal (00:25:28)
9.  Antonina Novacka - Lamuna Part 6 (00:26:29)
10. Tongues Of Light - Unity (00:28:55)
11. Ana Roxanne - Suite Pout L'Invisible(00:40:50)
12. Marja Ahti- Lost Lake (00:47:29)
13. Tara Clerkin Trio - Any Of These (00:51:34)
14. Ben Bertrand - Delayed Monologue (00:59:04)
15. Ai Aso - Gone (01:04:55)
16. Sarah Davachi - The Pelican (01:10:14)
17. Eugene Ughetti - Twin Resistance (01:15:53)
18. Emily A Sprague - Mirror (01:19:45)
19. Lucrecia Dalt - No Era Solidas (01:27:55)
20. Laura Cannell - Black Sleep Of Night (01:32:50)
21. Niagara - Ano-C (01:35:26)
22. Angel Bat Dawid - Transition East (01:42:00)
23. Memotone - Shadowed Grass(01:45:19)
24. Ian William Craig - Weight (01:48:35)
25. Oliver Coates - Honey (01:54:48)

130701 - A Dream Across The Border 18 - radio show on 1BTN - 09.01.21

Elephant9 - Rite Of Accession

a record label dedicated to release work by the most adventurous and creative norwegian artists and composers

I Like To Sleep - Circles

Rune Grammofon