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- Summary: The debut full-length solo release for the Toronto-based saxophonist who has worked with Destroyer and DIANA features contributions from Destroyer's Nic Bragg, Philippe Melanson and Bram Gielen.
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- Record Label: Western Vinyl Records
- Genre(s): Jazz
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UncutSep 7, 2017Coltrane, Eno and Metheny are touchstones, but Shabason's abstraction is sensual, his language emotional. [Sep 2017, p.37]
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Sep 7, 2017Joseph Shabason plays saxophone with art rockers Destroyer and provides icy synths for the R&B outfit DIANA. His solo debut, however, is densely textured ambient jazz that is wonderful to immerse yourself in for 40 minutes.
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Sep 7, 2017Here in his first solo full-length, he sands down the edges of the jazz-man’s axe, denaturing the sound until it evokes rather than presents itself. Almost all these songs have the drifting, half-heard, hard-to-pin-down sense-memory quality of music drifting in from other rooms, long ago.
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Sep 7, 2017Aytche is a deeply accessible, detail-rich drift that, like most great music in this vein, captivates with delicate layers that unfold further with repeated, careful listens.
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Sep 7, 2017Aytche is, for the most part, an easygoing album, but an unsettling undercurrent runs through it as well. The muted thumps and ominous dissonance of “Chopping Wood” play like an ambient riposte to Bitches Brew.