{"product_id":"cst119-jason-sharp-a-boat-upon-its-blood","title":"CST119 Jason Sharp | A Boat Upon Its Blood","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eJason Sharp has been a fixture of Montréal’s experimental\/improv scene for many years, chiefly as a saxophonist exploring drone and durational music, while also collaborating in a wide variety of jazz, avant and contemporary music ensembles – he has several prior links to Constellation, notably as part of Sam Shalabi’s Land Of Kush orchestra and Matana Roberts’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eCoin Coin Chapter One\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e band, and as a session player on Thee Silver Mt Zion’s 2010 album \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eKollaps Tradixionales\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSharp’s work as a composer, conductor and band leader in his own right is now featured on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Boat Upon Its Blood\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the first album-length recording to be released under his own name: a bracingly meditative multi-movement instrumental work that charts a highly compelling arc of shifting energies and intensities, tracing a heterogeneous cycle of minimalisms and maximalisms. Using custom-built equipment to translate breath and heart rate into variegated sonic triggers, along with other modes of signal processing and in tandem with traditional instrumentation, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Boat Upon Its Blood\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e features Sharp’s own reed playing and contributions from a few guest musicians, particularly Josh Zubot on violin and Joe Grass on pedal steel guitar.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTaking its title(s) from Robert Creeley’s poem “The Heart”, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Boat Upon Its Blood\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003edeploys the human metronome of amplified pulse as a recurring undercurrent, with compositions that incorporate electro-acoustic and musique concrète strategies, drone, noise, electronics, methodical dissonance, tone poem, layered rhythmic and melodic figures, and improvisation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRecorded by Thierry Amar (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Silver Mt Zion, Vic Chesnutt) at the Hotel2Tango in Montréal and mixed and mastered by Jesse Zubot (Tanya Tagaq, Drip Audio Records), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Boat Upon Its Blood\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a genre-defying album with a highly immersive and satisfying sound palette that impels deep listening and demands to be taken in as a whole. 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