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Craig Wedren announces the latest installment of his Sabbath Sessions series of live, improvised vocal-looping performances. SABBATH SESSIONS F/W 2022-23 will be available digitally on February 23, 2023 and today, he shares a clip from the album’s lead track, “Trixie’s Fifty” – LISTEN HERE.
The Sabbath Sessions series is intended to help facilitate connection to self and imagination, born out of the introspection of his longtime mindfulness and wellness practices and uniting many different strands of his varied musical aptitudes. These musical meditations represent his first explorations of ambient choral music, where Wedren’s technique of sampling and looping his famously elastic voice results in a unique kind of sound bath.
Of the new album, Wedren notes:
Sabbath Sessions are live, improvised vocal-looping performances that I like to do, usually in conjunction with yoga, meditation, and/or plant-medicine practices. They’re unique beasts that offer an alternative to your typical “sound bath” or meditation playlist, which can be lovely but often feel interchangeable and a little lite/polite to me.
On the other hand, Sabbath Sessions like to overwhelm the senses a bit, and can have similar effects to psychedelic plant medicine, leaving the listener (and performer, me) feeling altered and scrubbed whistle-clean when they leave the listening space.
SABBATH SESSIONS F/W 2022-23 documents a few recent sessions that I’m excited -and a little scared- to share. I hope you enjoy!
‘SABBATH SESSION F/W 2022-23’ TRACKLISTING
1 – Trixie’s Fifty
2 – Carrying Sheep
3 – High Holidays
