Joseph Shabason - The Fellowship (Sky Blue)

Joseph Shabason - The Fellowship (Sky Blue)Sky Blue Vinyl. Across eight tracks that mesh spacious, jazz laced composition with fourth world tonality, saxophonist Joseph Shabason sketches an auditory map of the transcendence, unity, conditioning, and eventual renunciation of his upbringing in an Islamic and Jewish dual faith household. The resulting album The Fellowship bears the name of the insular Islamic community Shabason's traditionally Jewish parents belonged to from a time before he was

‘Missionary’) as well as the original Absolute version of ‘Chance Meeting’ from 1979

courageous

Named after the Dutch art movement

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and Ben Dixon (drums)

wide-open spaces

a song of her third album Music

and your religion is a character in his religion

turning the "Summer of Love" anthem into a steamy and hypnotic soul-funk jam

The old favourites of early Deep Purple

Chemical Warfare

where he recorded a string of singles for independent labels in the late 1950s and early 60s