View From Above, by Alison Shearer

View From Above

by Alison Shearer

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1.	On Awakening 06:05	buy track
2.	Celestial 03:42	buy track
3.	Cycles 05:20	buy track
4.	Breathe Again (feat. Miranda Joan) 05:13	buy track
5.	Toni's Tune 05:46	buy track
6.	Three Flights Up (feat. Wayne Tucker) 05:05	buy track
7.	Big Kids (feat. Jonathan Hoard, Vuyo Sotashe, Chauncey Matthews) 06:29	buy track
8.	Purple Flowers (feat. Hattie Simon) 05:37	buy track
9.	Dawn to Dusk 04:47	buy track
10.	Gentle Traveler 05:33	buy track

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Saxophonist Alison Shearer’s debut album makes a statement. A statement about loss, and struggle, and the restorative power of music. Written soon after the passing of her father, famed photojournalist John Shearer, "View From Above" transports the listener to that liminal space between sky and earth, where the light shimmers and mundane matters seem small and far away.

Alison’s music is a study in contrasts: jagged, kaleidoscopic rhythms are paired with soaring, lyrical melodies and the rich timbres of saxophone, flute, cello, and voice are paired with electric guitar and bass, synthesizers, rhodes, and drum set. The music is textural, integrating shifting contours and metric modulations yet it remains groovy and aesthetically pleasing.

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released February 18, 2022

Alison Shearer – alto saxophone
Kevin Bernstein – piano, rhodes, synthesizers
Marty Kenney – electric bass
Hoarce Phillips – drumset
Wayne Tucker – trumpet
Susan Mandel – cello
Miranda Joan – vocals
Hattie Simon – vocals
Jonathan Hoard – vocals
Vuyo Sotashe – vocals
Chauncey Matthews – vocals

All songs written by Alison Shearer

Recorded by Scott E. Linder at Pinch Recording, Queens, NY, in March, 2021
Mixed by Fernando Lodeiro
Mastered by Kelly Hibbert
Album Artwork by Jocelyn Mackenzie

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Alison Shearer Brooklyn, New York

Alison Shearer is a saxophonist and composer based in Brooklyn, NY.

"Force on the rise" - JazzTimes

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