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Fresh Pepper

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Charlie Kruse
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Charlie Kruse both uniquely weird and eminently chill. Love this sound Favorite track: New Ways Of Chopping Onions.
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nah an effortlessly dynamic music, lyrics that touch gently and with a humor that belies the burdensome and stressful experiences they detail, and the most gnarled 3d modeled baby face in recent years. Favorite track: New Ways Of Chopping Onions.
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jpowell736 I'm on my second (and not last) go around on this since it was released, and I just love it. An alternative jazz album centered around the food service industry sounds strange in concept, but in practice, it works beautifully. Joseph Shabason's sax and flute is expectedly fantastic and the vocals by Andre Ethier work well with the melodies. The band overall is superb. Dan Bejar's vocal contribution is a treat. The song he sings on - Seahorse Tranquilizer - is a major highlight. Favorite track: Seahorse Tranquilizer (ft Dan Bejar).
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Walkin' 03:05
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Waiting On 05:39
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Dishpit 03:00
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The Worm 03:23

about

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.

Words by: Spencer Stephenson

This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada’s private radio broadcasters. Ce projet est financé en partie par FACTOR, le gouvernement du Canada et les radiodiffuseurs privés du Canada. www.canada.ca

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released June 17, 2022

Fresh Pepper is:

Kieran Adams
Robin Dann
Andre Ethier
Bram Gielen
Thom Gill
Joseph Shabason
Felicity Williams

All songs written and produced by Fresh Pepper
Vince Spilchuk plays trumpet on Walkin’
Dan Bejar sing on Seahorse Tranquiliser
All songs recorded and mixed by Joseph Shabason at Aytche Studio
All songs mastered by Joe Lambert
Cover Art by Peter Kalyniuk
Layout by Steve Sidoli

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