{"product_id":"land-of-kush-sand-enigma","title":"Land of Kush- Sand Enigma [ vinyl ]","description":"\u003cp\u003eRenowned Montréal\/Cairo composer Sam Shalabi returns with his exhilarating and utterly genre-bending big band Land of Kush. The trenchantly-titled Sand Enigma bristles with defiant exuberance, restless creative energy, and electrifying cross-cultural expression - the band's most accomplished, acute and accessible album to date (though don't expect 'easy listening' from this boundary-pushing hydra-headed entity). Sand Enigma is a wildly diverse and hugely compelling tour de force of modern composition that pulses with emotion and experimentation, blending avant-garde, psychedelic, Middle Eastern, out-jazz, electronic, and improv\/free music tropes to stunning effect. The 75-minute opus, brilliantly recorded by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Jerusalem In My Heart, Matana Roberts) captures a band on fire, flowing through composed set-pieces, improvisational turns, harmolodic gestural and textural interplay, bursts of fervent groove, and fearless, feral experimentation. While the bounty of heavy-hitting instrumental players are too numerous to call out here, Sand Enigma notably features two new Land of Kush collaborators, both of them leading lights of Cairo's burgeoning avant-electronic scene: Nadah El Shazly and Maurice Louca. As Alan Bishop of Sublime Frequencies raves: \"Shalabi raises the bar for modern psychedelic music with Land of Kush, weaving a seamless montage of styles in a transcendent way that is rarely, if ever, achieved.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAha\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Domyat 1331\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Safe Space\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Broken Maqams\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Sand Enigma\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Ssssss\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Recuerdo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Bone Mass I\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Bone Mass II\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Bone Mass III\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Ana\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Trema\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Dol\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Tensor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Constellation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58024955412744,"sku":"666561014612","price":4.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5987\/1240\/files\/3726159-2480061.jpg?v=1781516563","url":"https:\/\/evo-global-2.myshopify.com\/products\/land-of-kush-sand-enigma","provider":"EVO GLOBAL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}