Stetson, Colin: The Love It Took To Leave You LP

The love it took to leave you was recorded in over a week in a 144-year old foundry in Montreal, the latest opus by Colin Stetson is a molten collection of imagistic emotional voyages. Another chapter in a larger odyssey inscribed through every solo recording, new album is a story told through the singular melding of Colin’s breath and body, with an arsenal of saxophones and clarinet. The love it took to leave you features new ways of capturing Colin's music and instrumentation, intensifying his practice and to continue challenging the historical canon of the bass saxophone while crafting emotive, haunting and harmonically innovative music. Recorded at The Darling Foundry, a 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.”