The Anne EP is the afterword to Joseph Shabason’s acclaimed 2018 harmonic suite Anne, through which he examined and processed his mother’s struggle with Parkinson’s disease. Employing a small supporting cast that includes vocalist Dan Bejar (Destroyer) and guitarist Thomas Gill (Owen Pallett), Anne EP spotlights the Toronto saxophonist as he builds empathic tropospheres of woodwinds and synthesisers, deepening the sentiment established by the EP's companion album, which was released in November 2018. The detail and idiosyncrasy beneath the material's dawn-of-the-CD-era sheen, elevates Shabason's work far beyond mere aesthetic exercise, cementing jazz, ambient sound design, and new age revivalism into a timely new genre all his own.
Tracklist
- West of Heaven
- 1517
- I Don’t Want to Be Your Love (feat. Dan Bejar)
- Broken Hearted Kota
- Face Chord
