{"product_id":"land-of-kush-sand-enigma","title":"Land of Kush: Sand Enigma - VINYL LP","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSand Enigma\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eLand of Kush\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eConstellation\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eVINYL LP\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e666561014612\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eJazz\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2019-11-08\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e2\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         Renowned 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.1 Aha \u003cbr\u003e1.2 Domyat 1331 \u003cbr\u003e1.3 Safe Space \u003cbr\u003e1.4 Broken Maqams \u003cbr\u003e1.5 Sand Enigma \u003cbr\u003e1.6 Ssssss \u003cbr\u003e1.7 Recuerdo \u003cbr\u003e1.8 Bone Mass I \u003cbr\u003e1.9 Bone Mass II \u003cbr\u003e1.10 Bone Mass III \u003cbr\u003e1.11 Ana \u003cbr\u003e1.12 Trema \u003cbr\u003e1.13 Dol \u003cbr\u003e1.14 Tensor\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Land of Kush","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32078168817735,"sku":"39492685","price":27.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2976\/0132\/files\/3726159-2480061.jpg?v=1711075904","url":"https:\/\/tower.com\/products\/land-of-kush-sand-enigma","provider":"Tower Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}