2020. HipHop; "Although hes been in the game for more than three decades, The Clearing is the debut solo album by Anthony Khan, the producer/musician whos probably best known as Twilite Tone. Coming from a musical household - his uncle is the legendary Chicago bass player Hassan Khan, while hes also related to bass giant Richard Davis - Twilite Tone has soaked up the sound of the Windy City since the early seventies, producing house tracks under a bunch of secretive aliases in the mid-to-late eighties, while simultaneously forming a group with and DJ-ing for Common. That collaboration resulted in the 1992 co-production of Commons classic debut Can I Borrow A Dollar (1997s seminal Lowrell and Patrice Rushen-sampling Reminding Me (Of Sef) is also a Tone production) - before moving on to work with big names like Gorillaz and Kanye West. Armed with only an MPC, a Korg Triton Workstation and what he calls a secret Moog-like module, Tone cooks up fourteen beatscapes on The Clearing, navigating between hiphop, funk