Monogamy (豆瓣)

表演者: Land Of Kush's Egyptian Light Orchestra
专辑类型: 专辑
介质: CD
发行时间: 2010-05-31
出版者: Constellation
唱片数: 1
条形码: 0666561006624

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　　Sam Shalabi’s Land Of Kush project returns: his psych-arabic jazz orchestra has produced a second album of intensely genre-defying, polymorphic, big band madness.
　　Where Shalabi structured last year’s mesmerising Against The Day album around the Thomas Pynchon novel of the same name, this time Shalabi tackles concepts of shame, sexuality and society in a new multi-moveme... (展开全部) 　　Sam Shalabi’s Land Of Kush project returns: his psych-arabic jazz orchestra has produced a second album of intensely genre-defying, polymorphic, big band madness.
　　Where Shalabi structured last year’s mesmerising Against The Day album around the Thomas Pynchon novel of the same name, this time Shalabi tackles concepts of shame, sexuality and society in a new multi-movement work entitled Monogamy.
　　Rounding up many of the same Montreal-based improv and experimental players featured on Against The Day, Shalabi deploys a cast of two dozen musicians and sound artists to realise this fantastic new compositional hybrid of Middle Eastern tropes and Western vocabularies of jazz, psychedelia and experimental/free music.
　　For the Monogamy album, the group has been given it’s own sub-moniker as The Egyptian Light Orchestra. The band is a truly hydra-headed beast on this recording; string, brass and woodwinds careen around the drone/backbeat of the major movements, shifting between short melodic punctuations, free excursions, and consolidated unison lines. Dissonant piano, synth and electronics bubble below, above and at the outer limits of the mix. Several transitions also allow for various players to stretch out in some lovely virtuosic solo passages. Shalabi’s oud anchors the album’s opening and closing pieces, as well as the glorious “Tunnel Visions” piece at the album’s midpoint. The rhythm section – comprising standard trap kits, upright basses and traditional Eastern percussion – holds down one hypnotic groove after another.
　　Shalabi has once again structured his orchestral work to feature primarily female vocalists who further challenge the categorisation of the music, conjuring everything from Galas- or Ono-style ululation (“The 1st And The Last”) to cabaret/jazz (“Scars”) to ethereal psych-folk (“Tunnel Visions”).
　　Shalabi also employs a recurring digitally-processed voice track of “dirty” glossal phrases and cut-ups that interacts rhythmically and conceptually with the work. This sonic through-line frames and re-frames the music as psycho-sexual commentary and narrative, imbuing _Monogamy_’s many stylistic moments and movements with a higher conceptual power: frustration/liberation, chastity/carnality, innocence/shame, purity/impurity. Of course there’s a ‘healthy’ dose of id at play here as well – particularly on “Fisherman”, where the emotionless, robotic voice takes over in a steady stream of irreverent, desecrating, potty-mouthed absurdism.
　　The album’s title track “Monogamy” fittingly rallies the work’s conceptual terrain, with a gorgeous vocal melody spinning a concise alphabetised summation:
　　A is for the apple tree
　　B is for Beelzebub and he’s the snake
　　C is for the curse of Ham
　　D is for the drugs that you’re now forced to take
　　E is for eternity
　　F is for the fucking that you did outside
　　G is for the Giving Tree
　　H is for the Holy Spirit’s bride
　　And all of this comes out
　　In little birdlike trills
　　You’ll reach for paper towels
　　To clean up all your spills
　　BROWSE RECORDS
　　DISCOGRAPHIES:
　　1-SPEED BIKE
　　BLACK OX ORKESTAR
　　CLUES
　　DO MAKE SAY THINK
　　ELFIN SADDLE
　　ELIZABETH ANKA VAJAGIC
　　ERIC CHENAUX
　　EVANGELISTA / CARLA BOZULICH
　　EXHAUST
　　FEU THERESE
　　FLY PAN AM
　　FRANKIE SPARO
　　GLISSANDRO 70
　　GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR
　　HANGEDUP
　　HRSTA
　　JEM COHEN
　　LAND OF KUSH
　　LULLABYE ARKESTRA
　　RE:
　　SACKVILLE
　　SANDRO PERRI / POLMO POLPO
　　SILVER MT ZION
　　SOFA
　　THE DEAD SCIENCE
　　TINDERSTICKS
　　VIC CHESNUTT