Deluxe double 180gram LP pressed at Optimal (Germany) comes in a wide-spine jacket printed on heavy uncoated 24pt/450gsm paperboard with the inside of the jacket finished in black ink and the 2 vinyl LPs housed in audiophile polylined black paper dust sleeves. The 2x180gLP edition includes a pair of full colour 12”x24” pull-out art inserts featuring photography by Hicham Chadly (Nashazphone) and Frédéric Oberland (Oiseaux-Tempête), printed on uncoated140M archival paper. Includes digital download card.
CD comes in a custom mini-gatefold jacket printed on uncoated paperboard with an an inner dust sleeve for the disc. Artwork by Hicham Chadly (Nashazphone).
1. Aha
2. Domyat 1331
3. Safe Space
4. Broken Maqams
5. Sand Enigma
6. Ssssss
7. Recuerdo
8. Bone Mass pt I
9. Bone Mass pt II
10. Bone Mass pt III
11. Ana
12. Trema
13. Dol
14. Tensor
Deluxe double 180gram LP pressed at Optimal (Germany) comes in a wide-spine jacket printed on heavy uncoated 24pt/450gsm paperboard with the inside of the jacket finished in black ink and the 2 vinyl LPs housed in audiophile polylined black paper dust sleeves. The 2x180gLP edition includes a pair of full colour 12”x24” pull-out art inserts featuring photography by Hicham Chadly (Nashazphone) and Frédéric Oberland (Oiseaux-Tempête), printed on uncoated140M archival paper. Includes digital download card.
CD comes in a custom mini-gatefold jacket printed on uncoated paperboard with an an inner dust sleeve for the disc. Artwork by Hicham Chadly (Nashazphone).
"Contemporary Album of the Month " – The Guardian ★★★★
"Land Of Kush return with their best record to date... Sand Enigma is a work of enormous ambition with many incredible highs. In blurring the line between traditional and contemporary, as well as the distinctions between musical genres not usually known to keep company, Sam Shalabi has delivered a modern psychedelic masterpiece with ancient overtones." – The Quietus
"Never fails to defy expectations… a truly enthralling musical picture." – The Arts Desk ★★★★
"Western and Middle-Eastern instrumentation coalesce here in a stylistic mosaic traversing free-jazz, noise abstraction, psychedelic rock and traditional Arabic idioms, whilst vocalist Nadah El Shazly imbues the tableau with dreamlike qualities, her voice alternatiating between incantory balm and ululating assault… Land Of Kush employ intense juxtapositions of beauty and bombast as mediums of recall, contemplating both temporal and spiritual elements to realize a truer evocation of people and place." – Record Collector
"Sand Enigma is a cutting-edge fusion between experimental jazz and traditional forms of music. Merging the sounds from Montreal’s avant-garde rock and post-punk improv scene with Arabic classical instrumentation and free jazz — Shalabi ingeniously delivers a nuanced, sonic expression of the explored musical themes, friendships and relationships between Montreal and Cairo. It is experimentalism at its finest." – Scene Noise
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