On Hashish

Sam Shalabi is the most active player in Montreal's music scene and has been documented on recordings by Shalabi Effect, Detention, Molasses and A Silver Mt. Zion. Inspired by the writing, ideas and life of German historian and critic, Walter Benjamin, On Hashish highlights Shalabi's compositional skills. Here he has enlisted the help of a dozen musicians from the local scene, recorded their playing and then spliced and diced the recordings, shaping them into his own compositions. Beautiful custom gate-fold packaging.