Osama is Sam Shalabi's "protest music about arabophobia in a Post 9-11 World". Musically, Osama takes quite a leap from the territories occupied by Shalabi's last solo outing, On Hashish, which comprised field recordings, tape music and improv sewn together to fantastic results. Osama features contributions from over thirty Montreal musicians and takes a straight-ahead hard rock, psyche and pop approach, but still utilizes many improv and experimental techniques.

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Sam Shalabi's third solo outing for Alien8, Eid, was written and conceived in Cairo, Egypt in 2006 while Shalabi was living there and further realized in Montreal and Vancouver during the first half of 2007. The album is a result of two separate ideas that slowly coalesced over a couple of years. The first was Shalabi's idea of composing songs for singers he knew and enjoyed. The second idea was that of creating a 'modern Arabic pop' record.

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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-fol...   [ read more ]

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