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Singer-songwriter from Toronto, CanadaFresh Pepper, the duo of Andre Ethier and saxophonist Joseph Shabason, will launch on Toronto's indie pop label in June 2022.Debut record released from Telephone Explosion Records.

Includes 8 adult contemporary jazz pop songs.DL link included.

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"Toronto outfit Fresh Pepper, led by longtime friends Andre Ethier and Joseph Shabason, playfully navigates the mental and emotional mark left on many musicians by such places. Their self-titled debut is less concerned with their service-industry traumas, doldrums, and setbacks than it is with creating a relatable space for album's contributors to fully be themselves within the ease and freedom of having similar histories. Shabason, Ethier, and company (Robin Dann, Kieran Adams
Felicity Williams, Thom Gill & Bram Gielen) recount their culinary past lives across eight jazzy and benevolent tracks that exude their authors' sheer enjoyment of the creation process. Though the mental image of restaurant inner workings might trigger a mix of urgency, weariness, and Yearning for a better livelihood, Fresh Pepper recolors these frazzled scenes with fondness and levity, exorcizing past workplace woes through skillful musicianship and an earnest, slightly bizarre sense of humor.

From the very beginning moments of Fresh Pepper, Shabason and Ethier guide their companions (a sort of super group of Toronto musicians from acts like Bernice, Beverly Glenn Copeland, and even Destroyer's Dan Bejar himself) with breathy, hushed tones via saxophone and vocals respectively, casually traversing their own annexed corridor between smooth jazz, exploratory avant-indie, and subverted adult-contemporary."

Artist : Fresh Pepper

Label: Telephone Explosion Records

Includes 8 adult contemporary jazz pop songs.DL link included.

Labels and other worksplease use this form. ///Click here to see more Telephone Explosion Records releases available at Tobira.

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Artist : Fresh Pepper

Label: Telephone Explosion Records

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Ingredient, the electronic avant-pop duo of Toronto, Canada poets/longtime friends Ian Daniel Kehoe and Luka Kuplowsky, released their debut record in November 2022 on Toronto's Telephone Explosion Records.Created as part of therapy for Ian Daniel Kehoe, who suffered from mental illness, this work is experimental, but also catchy and familiar.Includes 11 bedroom-ambient synthpop songs that pass through contemporary R&B and house.Toronto pop writers Joseph Shabason, Nicholas Krgovich, Evan J.

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Available on 12\" black or 12\" translucent blue vinyl. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSilky lake 03:44\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCloud boat 05:30\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEast Chinatown Stroller 04:03\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSea fireflies 03:39\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOkinawa sunset 03:06\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSweltering drive 03:54\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFantasy in soy sauce 02:56\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMinamo 05:25\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrees sleep at night 03:13\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBack to the West 02:09\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eText by Nick Storring:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"For the good part of the past decade, Japanese composer-musician Masahiro Takahashi has been crafting gently spellbinding pieces that simultaneously embrace electronic abstraction and a palpable, even brittle, humanity. His delicate and evocative landscapes always seem to be illuminated in vibrant magic hour tones as golden synth lines emanate from between soft flickers of acoustic instrumentation.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSince moving to Toronto in 2020, Takahashi has swiftly become a local fixture, enough so that his elegant Not Not Fun tape, Flowering Tree, Distant Moon saw an LP reissue with prominent local imprint Telephone Explosion (home to Joseph Shabason, Mas Aya, Steve Roach, Badge Epoque, Eucalyptus and others).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe forthcoming follow-up, also on Telephone Explosion, is entitled Humid Sun and proudly exhibits connections that he has cultivated in both his new and former homes. Recorded between January and August 2022, the record lives up to its title and sunset-hued cover, unfolding a kaleidoscopic, vaguely tropical calm over ten luxuriant tracks. All but one of the pieces features contributions from guest artists. On one hand he has invited several artists from back home namely Tokyo-based electronic producers H. Takahashi, Takao, and Yamaan, on the other he has brought aboard members\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e of Toronto's rich experimental music community, including his labelmates Joseph Shabason and Brodie West (leader of Eucalyptus), as well as Ryan Driver, Bram Gielen, and Michael Davidson. He also enlisted Sandro Perri of Constellation Records infamy to provide the final mix.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThough bearing Takahashi's personal atmospheric signatures, Humid Sun's warm, saturated colour palette and sunny repose audibly also take cues from the imaginary utopias of vintage lounge and exotica. These tropes offer an unexpected avenue through which Toronto's local influence creeps in again. 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October 2023 repress. Available on 12\" black or 12\" translucent blue vinyl. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSilky lake 03:44\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCloud boat 05:30\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEast Chinatown Stroller 04:03\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSea fireflies 03:39\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOkinawa sunset 03:06\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSweltering drive 03:54\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFantasy in soy sauce 02:56\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMinamo 05:25\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrees sleep at night 03:13\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBack to the West 02:09\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eText by Nick Storring:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"For the good part of the past decade, Japanese composer-musician Masahiro Takahashi has been crafting gently spellbinding pieces that simultaneously embrace electronic abstraction and a palpable, even brittle, humanity. His delicate and evocative landscapes always seem to be illuminated in vibrant magic hour tones as golden synth lines emanate from between soft flickers of acoustic instrumentation.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSince moving to Toronto in 2020, Takahashi has swiftly become a local fixture, enough so that his elegant Not Not Fun tape, Flowering Tree, Distant Moon saw an LP reissue with prominent local imprint Telephone Explosion (home to Joseph Shabason, Mas Aya, Steve Roach, Badge Epoque, Eucalyptus and others).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe forthcoming follow-up, also on Telephone Explosion, is entitled Humid Sun and proudly exhibits connections that he has cultivated in both his new and former homes. Recorded between January and August 2022, the record lives up to its title and sunset-hued cover, unfolding a kaleidoscopic, vaguely tropical calm over ten luxuriant tracks. All but one of the pieces features contributions from guest artists. On one hand he has invited several artists from back home namely Tokyo-based electronic producers H. Takahashi, Takao, and Yamaan, on the other he has brought aboard members\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e of Toronto's rich experimental music community, including his labelmates Joseph Shabason and Brodie West (leader of Eucalyptus), as well as Ryan Driver, Bram Gielen, and Michael Davidson. He also enlisted Sandro Perri of Constellation Records infamy to provide the final mix.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThough bearing Takahashi's personal atmospheric signatures, Humid Sun's warm, saturated colour palette and sunny repose audibly also take cues from the imaginary utopias of vintage lounge and exotica. These tropes offer an unexpected avenue through which Toronto's local influence creeps in again. Takahashi explains that he envisions the record as an auditory tool to cope with the city's harsh winters—and the references are designed to provide a sort of sonic vacation. Indeed he succeeds in achieving this objective; the album's nuanced colours and contours engender a sense of equatorial tranquility, though completely devoid of the kitsch associated with his inspiration.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhile it might be easy to imagine Masahiro Takahashi's unique brand of introversion as the product of hermetic solitude, anyone that knows him from the Toronto scene will tell you that Humid Sun vividly captures his true temperament—curious, attentive, and quietly gregarious.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Masahiro Takahashi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Telephone Explosion Records\u003c\/p\u003e"}