Title: Tao Artist: Shad Label: Secret City Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 680341256023 Genre: Rap/Hip Hop Release Date: 2021-10-01 Number of Discs: 1 Additional Details: JEWEL CASE PACKAGING, POSTER
2021 release. Over the course of five records to date, the JUNO Award-winning Toronto rapper has used an array of old-school tools to tackle modern problems, addressing the indignities and absurdities of our world through a shapeshifting mélange of boom-bap breaks, dusty soul samples, jazzy improvisation, and 10-dollar words rolled into thousand-dollar rhymes. But after weaving his myriad musical and philosophical interests into a socio-political song cycle on 2018's Polaris short-listed A Short Story About A War, Shad began building his sixth record, TAO, from a much simpler concept: an image of a circle. Though, in true Shad fashion, he saw something much more profound within it's basic round boundaries.
