{"product_id":"shek-krystian-al-qahirah-cd-70852718016","title":"Krystian Shek - Al-Qahirah [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003e2018 release. Krystian Shek released a number of superb and still underrated albums on Namlook's FAX imprint over the years; his first Carpe Sonum offering, 2014's Sometimes Not, was a bracing return to form, and al-Qahirah is the follow-up, and it's a dandy, a longform slice of far-flung ethnotronica that speaks within dub's mother tongue but jettisons the lockstep rhythmic underpinning. In so doing, Shek's augured quite a brilliant thing: digidub that is all languid pools of sound, froth, reverberation, and echo, plunging the listener into a vast abyssal chamber whose sounds mimic the detritus found in long-abandoned sensory deprivation tanks. Yet the whole experience is becalming, welcoming, and thoroughly non-isolationist: throughout the fifteen-minute excursion of the title track, we are treated to a rainbow coalition of thrillingly sculpted shimmers lighting up a desert night sky like some man-made aurora borealis. Shek's skill lies in his ability to showcase works of 'ambience' that are leagues removed from Eno's hoary old definition-this is a music of flares and fanfare, bursting with light, drunk on the absinthe of nature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroducing The Ney, Pt. 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMy Name Is Khaled (Ambient Mix)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInto The Hammam, Pt. 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroducing The Ney, Pt. 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAl-Qa\u0026amp;#x304;hirah\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInto The Hammam, Pt, 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaleha\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Poem Of Antar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"5","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50792162165032,"sku":"70852718016","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0933\/3833\/7576\/files\/3764713.jpg?v=1763992521","url":"https:\/\/waterloorecords.com\/products\/shek-krystian-al-qahirah-cd-70852718016","provider":"Waterloo Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}