Description
Title: Big Mango
Artist: Land of Kush
Label: Constellation
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 666561009717
Genre: Alternative Rock
Release Date: 2013-09-30
Number of Discs: 1
Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing including digital download. Following several visits to the city over the years, Osama (Sam) Shalabi moved to Cairo in 2011, arriving at an apartment one block from Tahrir Square, in the midst of Egypt”s ”Arab Spring”. Shalabi describes the Big Mango, his 2013 phenomenal work for his Land of Kush big-band, as “”a love letter to Cairo”” framed by “”the beautiful, surreal madness of the city… as joyous, horrific, historical events were unfolding””.
Tracks:
1.1 Faint Praise
1.2 Second Skin
1.3 The Pit, Pt. 1
1.4 The Pit, Pt. 2
1.5 Sharm El Bango
1.6 Mobil Nil
1.7 St Stefano
1.8 Drift Beguine
1.9 The Big Mango
