CST177 FYEAR | FYEAR CST096 Sequence One is their first

Sequence One is their first album: a warm shimmering sonic hug of enveloping drone and hypnotic arpeggiation flowing along buoyant filter-sweeping eddies and waves

and shimmering electronic tracers that set the stage for the album’s closing song: the devastating choral composition “until all are free”

slow transformation and gradual decay

The hugely acclaimed Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres was the culmination of two years of regular visits to Montréal and featured fifteen musicians assembled from that city's out-jazz

but buoyant freedom through conduction of circulatory energies

CST177 FYEAR | FYEAR CST096 Sequence One is their firstFYEAR is a power octet led by composer Jason Sharp and poet writer Kaie Kellough, fusing spoken word voices with genre bending compositions for electronics, two drummers, processed saxophone, pedal steel and violins. FYEAR melds drone, modern chamber, out jazz, ambient metal, post hardcore, avant rock and electroacoustic maximalism in an integrated work the opposite of collage or pastiche; it always sounds like a wholly unified ensemble aesthetic.