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Fresh Pepper, Joseph Shabason, Andre Ethier - Fresh Pepper (2022)

Fresh Pepper, Joseph Shabason, Andre Ethier - Fresh Pepper (2022)

BAND/ARTIST: Fresh Pepper, Joseph Shabason, Andre Ethier

  • Title: Fresh Pepper
  • Year Of Release: 2022
  • Label: Telephone Explosion Records
  • Genre: Alternative, Jazz, Fusion
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 38:54
  • Total Size: 215 MB
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Toronto outfit Fresh Pepper's self-titled release on Telephone Explosion Records. "Fresh Pepper, led by longtime friends Andre Ethier and Joseph Shabason, playfully navigates the mental and emotional mark left on many musicians by employment in restaurants. Their self-titled debut is less concerned with their service-industry traumas, doldrums, and setbacks than it is with creating a relatable space for album’s contributors to fully be themselves within the ease and freedom of having similar histories. Shabason, Ethier, and company recount their culinary past lives across eight jazzy and benevolent tracks that exude their authors’ sheer enjoyment of the creation process. Though the mental image of restaurant inner workings might trigger a mix of urgency, weariness, and yearning for a better livelihood, Fresh Pepper recolors these frazzled scenes with fondness and levity, exorcizing past workplace woes through skillful musicianship and an earnest, slightly bizarre sense of humor. From the very beginning moments of Fresh Pepper, Shabason and Ethier guide their companions (a sort of super group of Toronto musicians from acts like Bernice, Beverly Glenn Copeland, and even Destroyer’s Dan Bejar himself) with breathy, hushed tones via saxophone and vocals respectively, casually traversing their own annexed corridor between smooth jazz, exploratory avant-indie, and subverted adult-contemporary. Mid-performance apologies are left unmuted in the mix, room-tones are evident in spacious moments, and the spirit of close collaboration is omnipresent. After a mini-parade of loose and glassy keys, the pensive funk highlight “Prep Cook in the Weeds” intros with the kind of furrowed-brow noir-smoothness of some yesteryear crime drama, buoyed by Ethier’s gently insightful musings. Ethier’s slice-of-life lyricism and serene baritone delivery find a fitting counterpart in Dan Bejar who appears on “Seahorse Tranquilizer”. Where featured vocalists-- especially those as iconic as Bejar-- would threaten to out-charisma an album’s resident personalities, Ethier and Bejar heighten the charm of each other’s demeanor in a natural and relaxed way, leading to one of the gentlest moments of an already gentle affair. Fresh Pepper conjures an unexpected slice of enlightenment from somewhat unnoticed circumstances. True to form, Fresh Pepper assures us not just that we are going to be okay, but that we are okay right here and now, overtired as we are amid the stainless steel, heat lamps, and spattering oil."

Tracklist:
1.01 - Fresh Pepper, Joseph Shabason, Andre Ethier - New Ways Of Chopping Onions (6:58)
1.02 - Fresh Pepper, Joseph Shabason, Andre Ethier - Walkin' (3:05)
1.03 - Fresh Pepper, Joseph Shabason, Andre Ethier - Prep Cook In The Weeds (4:51)
1.04 - Fresh Pepper, Joseph Shabason, Andre Ethier - Waiting On (5:39)
1.05 - Fresh Pepper, Joseph Shabason, Andre Ethier, Destroyer - Seahorse Tranquilizer (6:37)
1.06 - Fresh Pepper, Joseph Shabason, Andre Ethier - Dishpit (3:00)
1.07 - Fresh Pepper, Joseph Shabason, Andre Ethier - Congee Around Me (5:20)
1.08 - Fresh Pepper, Joseph Shabason, Andre Ethier - The Worm (3:23)



Year 2022 | Jazz | Alternative | FLAC / APE

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