Release Date: 08 December 2023
Label: Telephone Explosion Records
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 061297791323
Release Date: 10 November 2023
Label: Telephone Explosion Records
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 061297791316
Description
Toy Machine skateboard's seminal 1996 video "Welcome To Hell" features a unique and progressive patchwork of skateboarders, most of which would become icons in their world, and helped redefine what the modern skateboarding video could be. A young Joseph Shabason felt that impact. The acclaimed musician hit rewind on his VHS copy of "Welcome To Hell" hundreds of times in his youth, each watch as thrilling as the last. That invigorating, improvisational, full-body experience of skateboarding is one that Shabason likens to jazz, where a shared language exists between the wheels and woodwinds. The way the skateboarder and musician command that language is what distinguishes them, adding definition to the mercurial concept of "style." This connection becomes most apparent in collaboration; ensembles of skaters and musicians are a noisy, creative bunch. Reflecting on this relationship and the Toy Machine classic would ultimately lead Shabason to wonder: what does hell sound like?
The answer was a concept album that, like his previous records, lives in the personal. One that, much like skateboarding itself, would push him to try something new: rescoring "Welcome To Hell".
Description
Toy Machine skateboard's seminal 1996 video "Welcome To Hell" features a unique and progressive patchwork of skateboarders, most of which would become icons in their world, and helped redefine what the modern skateboarding video could be. A young Joseph Shabason felt that impact. The acclaimed musician hit rewind on his VHS copy of "Welcome To Hell" hundreds of times in his youth, each watch as thrilling as the last. That invigorating, improvisational, full-body experience of skateboarding is one that Shabason likens to jazz, where a shared language exists between the wheels and woodwinds. The way the skateboarder and musician command that language is what distinguishes them, adding definition to the mercurial concept of "style." This connection becomes most apparent in collaboration; ensembles of skaters and musicians are a noisy, creative bunch. Reflecting on this relationship and the Toy Machine classic would ultimately lead Shabason to wonder: what does hell sound like?
The answer was a concept album that, like his previous records, lives in the personal. One that, much like skateboarding itself, would push him to try something new: rescoring "Welcome To Hell".
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Blunt Chunks
Tony Price
Jahmal Padmore
Dorothea Paas
Teenanger
Bob Bell
Joseph Shabason
Badge Epoque Ensemble
Tom Green Septet
Tom Green Septet
Patchwork Jazz Orchestra
Rick Panzer
Vincent Ingala
Laufey
The Flying Burrito Brothers
The Cannonball Adderley Quintet
