{"product_id":"vesper-sparrow","title":"Vesper Sparrow (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe work of JJJJJerome Ellis lives comfortably in the gaps between silence and possibility. \r\nThe Black disabled Grenadian-Jamaican-American artist creates atmospheric soundscapes with saxophone, organ, hammered dulcimer, electronics, and their voice. Improvisation is at the core of their artistry - often chipping away at large slabs of recordings to reveal the piece like a marble sculptor. It's an expansive and interdisciplinary practice that allows JJJJJerome to adapt to any medium or form, including recorded music, live theatrical and performance art, scoring, spoken word and storytelling, and multimedia\/visual works that incorporate sound.\r\n\r\nLiving as a person who stutters, using their mouth to express themselves proved difficult growing up. The practice of spelling their performance moniker \"JJJJJerome\" stems from the realization that the word they stutter most frequently is their own name. Despite a brief placement in speech therapy as a child - Everything clicked when they picked up the saxophone in seventh grade. \"I still stutter on the saxophone, but it's different.\" As an artist, their creative ethos now revolves around the exploration of stuttering through music, expounding upon the ability of each to shape time. They honor the stutter through art.\r\n\r\nTheir career began when they started to improvise along with John Coltrane and Billie Holiday CDs on the horn. But as someone drawn to navigating limitations, JJJJJerome has since blossomed into an adept multi-instrumentalist, each instrument being a watershed in paving new avenues of potential sound worlds. Their voice is additionally guided by a reverence for the earth and ancestors - both human and otherwise. With maternal familial ties to the church, and memorable stories of their grandmother performing as a pianist and organist, JJJJJerome's recent affinity for keyboards holds a meaningful weight.\r\n\r\nForthcoming sophomore record Vesper Sparrow (Shelter Press) is born out of this connection to Black religious tradition and inheritance. It is a continuation of the artist's ongoing study of the intersections between music and sound, stuttering, and Blackness, through the lens of time. The album is comprised of two complete thoughts, and hinges on a recorded stutter. JJJJJerome splits the four-part composition \"Evensong\" by fading out the stutter in part two, and sandwiches tracks three and four (\"Vesper Sparrow\" and \"Black-Throated Sparrow\") in-between. \"The stutter becomes a structuring moment,\" they explain, regarding the opportunity to fill the time opened up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEvensong part 1 (for and after June Kramer)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Evensong part 2 (for and after James Harrison Monaco)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Vesper Sparrow (feat. Haruna Lee James Harrison Monaco Ronald Peet and S T A R R (busby))\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Savannah Sparrow (for and after Kenita Miller)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Evensong part 3 (for and after Jessica Valoris)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Evensong part 4 (for and after okcandice)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003e UPC \u0026gt; 788362412043 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Format \u0026gt; New CD \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Label \u0026gt; Shelter Press \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Release Date \u0026gt; Release Date: 11.14.25 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShop online at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46798791016669,"sku":"788362412043","price":110.0,"currency_code":"CNY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4458267-3449418.jpg?v=1758307545","url":"https:\/\/darksiderecords.myshopify.com\/products\/vesper-sparrow","provider":"Darkside Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}