Envision signs Colin Stetson, Announces “THE LOVE IT TOOK TO LEAVE YOU”

May 14

NEW 2xLP ALBUM OUT SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Envision Records is proud to welcome Colin Stetson to our roster with his new single The love it took to leave you the title track to Colin’s first solo recording since 2017. It features new ways of capturing his music and instrumentation, intensifying his practice and challenging the historical canon of the bass saxophone while crafting emotive, haunting and harmonically innovative music. Recorded over a week in early 2023 at The Darling Foundry, a 144-year old former metalworks facility in Montreal now transformed into a 3500m3 contemporary art complex, with a voluminous main room that still maintains its raw architecture of brick, concrete and steel. Colin says “We were using the same live setup as I normally would to amplify—a full PA in the building’s spaces—so we were really able to move the kind of air that I can move—really saturating the room, hitting the walls hard. And then we further fleshed it out.”

LISTEN TO “THE LOVE IT TOOK TO LEAVE YOU”

Written some years ago but always intended as the cornerstone of an album, the first single and title track, “The love it took to leave you,” pulses into view from a forlorn and alien distance. Voiced through alto saxophone it sets a scene saturated with yearning—ruminating on the conflicted aches and oscillations that arise from love lost, the grasping, the collapse; and the rebuild, the struggle for dignity, self-compassion, and finally liberation. It’s a composition Colin’s been performing for several years, waiting for the right context to bring its full emotional and musical anatomy to life.

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