Our first mixtape of the year is here and it is amazing, put together by Toronto based composer and multi-instrumentalist Joseph Shabason. Known for his longtime collaboration with Destroyer and DIANA, he is also a busy recording artist and touring musician. Marrying jazz and ambient, Shabason first enticed us with his debut album Aytche, which he followed up last year with Anne, a beguiling and affecting album that made it to our Album Picks of 2018. So we're over the moon he found the time to pick this marvellous mix of tracks for us!
- John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman – Lush Life
[Impulse!] - Prefab Sprout – Nightingales
[Kitchenware Records / CBS] - Mid-Air Thief – Why?
[Botanical House] - Bernice – David
[Arts & Crafts] - Arve Henriksen – Patient Zero
[Rune Grammofon] - Beverly Glenn-Copeland – Ever New
[Atlast Records] - Hiroshi Yoshimura – Singing Stream (Spring Mix)
[Eastworld] - Pauline Anna Strom – Freedom at the 45th Floor
[Rvng Intl.] - Peter Gabriel – Donʼt Give Up
[Geffen] - Phil Manzanera – Big Day
[Island Records] - Nicholas Krgovich – Along the PCH on Oscar Night
[Tin Angel Records] - Joni Mitchell = The Three Great Stimulants
[Geffen] - Donald Fagen – The Goodbye Look
[Warner Bros. Records]