The Fellowship

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why we love this

The unique sound of Shabason always moves us. Especially this deeply personal album of his takes us through a whole array of emotions. Painting different shades of calming sounds - some dark, some light, some uplifting.

about the record

Across eight tracks that mesh jazz-laced, emotive, and spacious 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 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, 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.

  1. Life With My Grandparents 4:51
  2. Escape From North York 3:38
  3. The Fellowship 5:14
  4. 0-13 2:37
  5. 13-15 5:10
  6. 15-19 7:01
  7. Comparative World Religions 3:00
  8. So Long 7:07
The Fellowship

31,00

only 3 left

  1. Life With My Grandparents 4:51
  2. Escape From North York 3:38
  3. The Fellowship 5:14
  4. 0-13 2:37
  5. 13-15 5:10
  6. 15-19 7:01
  7. Comparative World Religions 3:00
  8. So Long 7:07

why we love this

The unique sound of Shabason always moves us. Especially this deeply personal album of his takes us through a whole array of emotions. Painting different shades of calming sounds - some dark, some light, some uplifting.

about the record

Across eight tracks that mesh jazz-laced, emotive, and spacious 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 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, 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.

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