Mes écoutes de la semaine du 20 Octobre 2025

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#Disque du jour, bonjour !

#LandOfKush • Monogamy (#ConstellationRecords, 2010)

https://landofkush.bandcamp.com/album/monogamy

Orchestre monté par #SamShalabi avec des membres de #GodspeedYouBlackEmperor , #ShalabiEffect, #SetFireToFlames,#XarahDion #ElisabethAnjaVajagic et j'en passe de musiciens et groupes de #Montreal, pour mélange de ses deux cultures, égyptiennes et canadiennes.

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The Big Mango by Land of Kush, released on Constellation in 2013.

Following several visits to the city over the years, Osama (Sam) Shalabi moved to Cairo in 2011, arriving at an apartment one block from Tahrir Square, in the midst of Egypt's 'Arab Spring'. Shalabi describes The Big Mango, his new and phenomenal work for his Land Of Kush big-band, as "a love letter to Cairo" framed by "the beautiful, surreal madness of the city…as joyous, horrific, historical events were unfolding".

... In combination with the peaking intensity and electricity of Shalabi's compositional vision, The Big Mango coheres, sparkles and soars: a distillation of the sonic trajectory Land Of Kush has been charting for the past five years.

https://landofkush.bandcamp.com/album/the-big-mango

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z88PSLYsSqE&list=OLAK5uy_nEVMQHQfYw-e-Q3j_aSr7Ia00PV9eh-8A&index=1

#landofkush #samshalabi #cairo #montreal #middleeasternpsych #jazz

Land Of Kush’s Egyptian Light Orchestra – ‘Monogamy’ released in 2010

Phil wrote for Sonic Abuse:

"..The answer lies in the sixteen minute track ‘scars’ which takes the psychedelic works of the Soors and filters it through Eastern mythology and which is most certainly on the right side of the aforementioned line and which drags you bodily into the word of Land of Kush no matter how much you may resist the pull. Lyrically and musically fascinating ‘scars’ belongs to the best school of music which takes the listener out of themselves and on a journey; with hypnotic rhythms pummelling you and all manner of a-typical instrumentation creating a barrage that is part Eastern music, part extravagant musical number that demands a full theatrical performance (preferably complete with belly dancers!) to truly capture the magic of the experience..."

#samshalabi #landofkush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw5A5dMPn7A&list=PLnpQFjefXCROZMd5HSAe8gITexIcIOiis&index=2&pp=iAQB8AUB