Across eight tracks that mesh spacious, jazz-laced composition with fourth-world and adult-contemporary tonality, Toronto saxophonist Joseph Shabason sketches an auditory map of the transcendence, unity, conditioning, and eventual renunciation of his upbringing in an Islamic and Jewish dual-faith household. On 'The Fellowship', like his previous albums, Joseph Shabason does what only skilled instrumental music makers can: tell a story with emotional clarity that conveys even the subtlest of feelings, all without singing a single word. As wordless as ever - with a complex theme - this album may be his most emotionally articulate yet. For fans of Brian Eno, Jon Hassell, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Laraaji, Robert Rich and Harold Budd.