Cat Toren's Human Kind

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Release Date: 2017-01-21

Label: Green Ideas Records

The HUMAN KIND project believes in an understanding that what happens to your neighbour is held in humanity’s shared unconscious mind and is passed down generationally until our efforts transcend this unconsciousness. Americans recently decided how they would cast their vote based on their personal priority issues. If our collective priorities do not include making a considerable effort toward the public good - gender equality, racial equality, equal rights for the LGBTQ2 community, freedom of religion, the right to clean air and water, basic healthcare and quality education for all - as a minimum requirement, then we suffer as a global community. When the perceived health of one’s tax bracket is of greater concern than the health and happiness of others, we enable this suffering. This music is meant to nourish the initiative to crack the door open to see outside one’s sphere. It is meant to abate ignorance and stoke the fire of compassion. It is meant to energize the soul so that we the people can mobilize, organize and get out there! It is meant to touch the spirit and keep the faith. It is meant to inspire so that we might begin to take steps to transcend unconsciousness.

Cat Toren
New York, 2017
Cat Toren - Piano/Keyboard/Compositions
Xavier Del Castillo - Saxophone
Yoshie Fruchter - Oud/Guitar
Jake Leckie - Bass
Matt Honor - Drums
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Recorded at Tedesco Studios, New Jersey
Mixing & Mastering by Chris Gestrin at Public Alley 421, Coquitlam, BC
Art and Design by Daniel Stettner
Produced by Cat Toren

Gratitude:
Xavier, Yoshie, Jake and Matt for their incredible musicianship and commitment to the project. Jesse Math, I could not have done this without you. Peter Herd for his generosity. Chris Gestrin and Daniel Stettner for their hard work. Nou Dadoun for the conversation. Jesse Math and Josh Hildebrandt for help with the text. The ACLU. Mom, Dad, Jan and Kirsten. And, You.

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