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CD released: Nov 16, 2018

Tracklisting:
1. I Thought That I Could Get Away With It 4:45
2. Deep Dark Divide 7:00
3. Dangerous Chemicals 6:32
4. Donna Lee 4:51
5. Forest Run 4:30
6. Fred And Lil 6:51
7. Toh Koh 3:09
8. November 5:10
9. Treat It Like A Win Bar 6:12
JOSEPH SHABASON
ANNE
Label: WESTERN VINYL
Cat No: WV182CD
Barcode: 843563106280
Packaging: CD Jewel Case

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.

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