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Water & Tools

by Jairus Sharif

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Andrew Godsalve
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Andrew Godsalve Equip yourself for getting lost in this transportive aqueoscape. Love the surprise ending to Humility, the hermit thrush the forest's most liquid song. Pure adventure. Support Albertan artists!
J Riddle
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J Riddle This album is so, so rad. Every track here oozes purpose, like this sound NEEDED to get out. Similar energy to Jerry Joiner/Girlfriends solo math rock project, but free jazz. The lumbering buzz giving way to hopeful-melancholy in the opening track perfectly sets the stage for the rest of the record. Interesting sax phrasings and all-over-the-place drum patterns abound here. AOTY contender for sure. Favorite track: Water & Tools.
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1.
Humility 11:37
2.
Ra Comm 43 04:52
3.
Surfacing 04:36
4.
9-5 Silver 03:02
5.
Ra Comm 8 01:15
6.
Earth III 02:40
7.
Ra Comm 10 01:46
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Water & Tools is a dense, contradictory statement with a blustery surface that shelters a soulful heart. It's generous music, exuding profound vulnerability, all the while brimming with electric wide-eyed wonder. Almost every one of the nine pieces seems to carry some semblance of a groove, while remaining completely untethered from pulse.

For Sharif, this collection is an expression of newfound lucidity, however for the listener his sonic concoctions act as powerful psychotropics. At points, there's a timelessness that's conveyed through the music's processional, ritualistic tenor, and yet there's an endless amount of wild, futuristic detail waiting to unspool at any given moment.

Similarly, while this recording emerges from Sharif's private pilgrimage and personal emancipation, he also leaves room for collaboration. Woven throughout Sharif's one-man-ensemble textures, one finds Maxmilian Turnbull (of Badge Epoque, U.S. Girls, and Cosmic Range infamy) providing sundry keyboards and treatments, as well as his mixing skills.

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released October 21, 2022

Composed, Performed, Produced, Recorded &
All Instruments* played by Jairus Sharif

Mixing and Additional Keyboards* by Maximilian 'Twig' Turnbull

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