Ended the weekend and welcomed the bank holiday Monday with The Trial of St. Orange the second album by the Montreal-based collective, Shalabi Effect.

David M. Pecoraro wrote in a contemporary review for Pitchfork

"...A primal feel is established from the disc's opening moments. An acoustic guitar is plucked as faint percussion falls like raindrops over ubiquitous natural field recordings-- bird songs, forest sounds, etc.-- placed at far intervals. Periodic gong soundings emerge. At first, the metal is allowed to resonate in a mostly empty space, but soon the field recordings grow far less distant.."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiTKNUDjE1Q&list=PLoCgNYwnSdc-M5mCbDnEQ2C0CCwLOJ7h7&index=1

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Shalabi Effect is the eponymous debut album by Shalabi Effect. The album cover is taken from the famous Eagle Nebula Pillars of Creation photo made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The album began with the song "Aural Florida", which was originally going to be on a split release with Godspeed You! Black Emperor; when that release was abandoned, the rest of the album was created.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhZbGA9E004

Shalabi Effect is a mostly instrumental band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The band was originally formed in 1996 as a duo composed of Anthony Seck and Sam Shalabi. Shalabi is an Egyptian-Canadian musician who is also the founder of Swamp Circuit, Detention, Nutsak, The Dwarfs of East Agouza, Moose Terrific and the orchestra Land of Kush. Seck is a filmmaker and member of the supergroup Valley of the Giants.
History
Shalabi and Seck independently released their first recording, a self-titled limited-edition cassette, in 1998. - Wikipedia

Sam Shalabi - Oud
Anthony Seck - Guitar

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https://shalabieffectmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-shalabi-effect-1998

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6tFfU4p1co