{"product_id":"the-fellowship","title":"The Fellowship","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcross eight tracks that mesh spacious, jazz-laced composition with fourth-world and adult-contemporary tonality, Toronto saxophonist \u003cstrong\u003eJoseph Shabason\u003c\/strong\u003e sketches an auditory map of the transcendence, unity, conditioning, and eventual renunciation of his upbringing in an Islamic and Jewish dual-faith household.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe resulting album \u003cem\u003eThe Fellowship\u003c\/em\u003e bears the name of the insular Islamic community Shabason’s traditionally Jewish parents belonged to from a time before he was even born; a mental and spiritual push-pull which continued shaping, even controlling, his outlook well into his adulthood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs a listening experience \u003cem\u003eThe Fellowship\u003c\/em\u003e follows a chronological arc that spans three generations covering his parents’ early lives, his own spiritual and physical adolescence, and his subsequent struggle to eschew the problematic habituations of such a conflicted past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn \u003cem\u003eThe Fellowship\u003c\/em\u003e, as on prior albums that bear his name, \u003cstrong\u003eJoseph Shabason\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs wordless as ever - with as complex a theme as ever - this album may be his most emotionally articulate yet. Most importantly, those lost in the woods of repression and self-doubt that organized religion can be at its worst now have \u003cem\u003eThe Fellowship\u003c\/em\u003e to help guide them into a softer light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor fans of \u003cstrong\u003eBrian Eno\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eJon Hassell\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eBeverly Glenn-Copeland\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eLaraaji\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Rich\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eHarold Budd\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Western Vinyl","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50457764233547,"sku":"1113841","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/3a28644d-ca2a-4fef-a709-2943e7203c7e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727207980","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/the-fellowship","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}