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