Guardian's Contemporary album of the month: 'Sand Enigma' by Land of Kush - "disorientating, exhausting but quite compelling"

Land of Kush is a Canadian collective of 20-ish musicians, headed by Sam Shalabi (Egyptian born in Lybia, raised in Canada), playing a combination of free jazz, Arabic classical, postpunk and pan-global folk music. Their last album from 2013 emanated "heady optimism inspired by the Arab Spring, and Shalabi has spent much of the last […]