Joseph Shabason - Anne [Album Review]

'The sophomore album of Joseph Shabason ‘Anne’ is an interesting study. With ambience over-layed with Shabason’s jazzy saxophonist fingerprints, it chronicles over the course of nine tracks Anne; Joseph Shabason’s mother whom the LP is titled after, and her personal perspectives on coping with the serene tragedy of Parkinson’s disease. The album opens with the relatively sombre tones of ‘I Thought I Could Get Away With It’, the opener features our first of the excerpts of interviews with Anne that are delicately interwoven at intervals throughout the project. Interestingly, the track is composed and mastered to have these opening excerpts at low volumes in comparison to the musical arrangement. This isn’t the case however, with the second track ‘Deep Dark Divide’ where a much more clearly audible discussion on generational differences is poised amongst a progressively simple ambient soundscape. [...]' [https://www.gigsoupmusic.com/reviews/album-reviews/joseph-shabason-anne/]