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Joel St. Julien // Empathy TAPE

Joel St. Julien // Empathy TAPE

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Haiti's modular player Joel St. Julien in October 2021The latest cassette released by Land and Sea.Includes 9 beautiful ambient songs from ambient hip hop.Recommended for neo-classical listeners. DL code included.

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Text by Land and Sea:

"LAND AND SEA is pleased to present our 38th effort: EMPATHY, an album / cassette by Haitian-American composer, sound artist, and musician Joel St. Julien.

For his first physical release, made during the early months of the 2021 quarantine lock down, St. Julien has woven together a series of lush, cinematic tapestries rooted in an attempt to understand, if not transform the perpetual state of the world. EMPATHY, An almost alchemic act, with EMPATHY, St. Julien transforms echoes of American ugliness into profound beauty. These songs lend to the notion of the very human act of processing a harsh truth or sudden loss. At times sounds and gestures find themselves at odds with one another, yet in other moments we hear a soft field of harmony --probably a coming to terms with self.

In his own words, "The creation of this music was a balm for my depression and anxiety of constantly seeing America These songs were a way to create a world I could live in and create for myself --not as an escape but a safe place to be. It's my hope that this album gives you a place to be. It is my deep wish that communities of empathy continue to be created outside of the shadow of white supremacy. Beyond the gatekeepers of identity, beyond the righteousness of narcissism, beyond the Twitter fingers, beyond the ego of cancellation, beyond the ease of black mirror activism, beyond the indifference of your comfort, beyond the need to be perfectly understood, beyond the need to be a man. ""

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Review by Review by Fault Radio:

".. what is immediately apparent about his music is that much of his work embodies something more ethereal yet grounded in nature; it sits in an emotional space that is raw and immediate to the listener's experience, but still distant enough to generate multiple interpretations. " 

Artist: Joel St. Julien

Label: Land and Sea

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Haiti's modular player Joel St. Julien in October 2021The latest cassette released by Land and Sea.Includes 9 beautiful ambient songs from ambient hip hop.Recommended for neo-classical listeners. DL code included.

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Text by Land and Sea:

"LAND AND SEA is pleased to present our 38th effort: EMPATHY, an album / cassette by Haitian-American composer, sound artist, and musician Joel St. Julien.

For his first physical release, made during the early months of the 2021 quarantine lock down, St. Julien has woven together a series of lush, cinematic tapestries rooted in an attempt to understand, if not transform the perpetual state of the world. EMPATHY, An almost alchemic act, with EMPATHY, St. Julien transforms echoes of American ugliness into profound beauty. These songs lend to the notion of the very human act of processing a harsh truth or sudden loss. At times sounds and gestures find themselves at odds with one another, yet in other moments we hear a soft field of harmony --probably a coming to terms with self.

In his own words, "The creation of this music was a balm for my depression and anxiety of constantly seeing America These songs were a way to create a world I could live in and create for myself --not as an escape but a safe place to be. It's my hope that this album gives you a place to be. It is my deep wish that communities of empathy continue to be created outside of the shadow of white supremacy. Beyond the gatekeepers of identity, beyond the righteousness of narcissism, beyond the Twitter fingers, beyond the ego of cancellation, beyond the ease of black mirror activism, beyond the indifference of your comfort, beyond the need to be perfectly understood, beyond the need to be a man. ""

~

Review by Review by Fault Radio:

".. what is immediately apparent about his music is that much of his work embodies something more ethereal yet grounded in nature; it sits in an emotional space that is raw and immediate to the listener's experience, but still distant enough to generate multiple interpretations. " 

Artist: Joel St. Julien

Label: Land and Sea