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Joseph Shabason - Aytche (2017)

Joseph Shabason - Aytche (2017)

BAND/ARTIST: Joseph Shabason

  • Title: Aytche
  • Year Of Release: 2017
  • Label: Western Vinyl
  • Genre: Jazz, Ambient
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 40:41
  • Total Size: 252 MB
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Tracklist:

1. Looking Forward to Something, Dude 04:01
2. Aytche 03:48
3. Neil McCauley 05:15
4. Smokestack 04:12
5. Tite Cycle 05:20
6. Long Swim 04:54
7. Westmeath 04:56
8. Chopping Wood 04:01
9. Belching Smoke 04:14

Saxophonist and composer Joseph Shabason's debut Aytche builds a bridge off of the precipice his forbears established, skirting jazz, ambient, and even new age with the same deliberate genre-ambiguity that made their work so interesting.

Aytche is a document of exploration both inward and outward. Every step taken in sound-design mirrors a stride in emotionality, as Shabason employs a variety of effect pedals to coax rich moody textures from his instrument. He explains, "I feel like robbing the sax of the ability to shred by effecting it and turning it into a dense chordal instrument really helps the instrument become something that it's not usually known for." Aytche deals with themes of degenerative illness and assisted suicide with eloquence that instrumental music rarely achieves regarding any subject, much less such difficult ones.

Album highlight "Westmeath" approaches Aytche's subject of inspiration head-on. Here, the album's only verbalization appears in the form of an interview with a man discussing his father's trauma and eventual suicide after surviving the holocaust. Though we only hear a few obscured words and phrases from the interview, the impact is powerful. For Shabason, whose grandparents survived the holocaust, this selection is anything but frivolous.


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