This world is full of constants: death, taxes, and Warm Visions covering Badge Époque Ensemble. These things will never fade, even long after we’re all gone.

The Canadian jazz-funk group’s new album Air, Light & Harmony arrives November 3rd via Telephone Explosion Records, their fourth LP for the label since 2019, and sixth overall. The album is also the final piece of a trilogy, the others being 2019’s Nature, Man & Woman and 2021’s Future, Past & Present, which all sample and take stems from previous BÉE records, warping them into new creations behind the intensely skilled instrumental prowess of the band themselves, once again flexing their versatility as elite studio musicians, as well as sampler extraordinaires.

The title track, “Air, Light & Harmony” is out now and is a lightweight groove, immediately bringing to mind a hot day spent out on a veranda, with shadows in the form of stray patches of disharmony occasionally floating in like clouds. Across the chunky drums, saxophone lilts away and organ steams up the place. A vibraphone solo offers a glassy quality, beads of moisture gathering on the outside of your beverage. A satiny guitar solo stretches out time, rubberizing stiff joints. BÉE’s ever-present flute closes things out, signaling the curtain closing on this afternoon, but leaving the door open for the rest of the album.

Badge Époque Ensemble’s Air, Light & Harmony is out November 3rd via Telephone Explosion. Listen more + pre-order below.