{"product_id":"sand-enigma-lp","title":"Sand Enigma [LP]","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\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAha\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDomyat 1331\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSafe Space\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBroken Maqams\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSand Enigma\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSsssss\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecuerdo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBone Mass I\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBone Mass II 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBone Mass III 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAna 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrema 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDol 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTensor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 666561014612\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e CONSTELLATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 11.8.19\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Land Of Kush","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58292033454161,"sku":"325606","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5023\/8545\/files\/3726159-2480061.jpg?v=1760738538","url":"https:\/\/apocalypsevinyl.com\/es\/products\/sand-enigma-lp","provider":"Apocalypse Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}