Shalabi Effect (album)

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Shalabi Effect
Shalabi Effect - Shalabi Effect album cover.jpg
Studio album by Shalabi Effect
Released June 2000
Recorded Sound of One Hand, Montreal
Genre Experimental
Psychedelic music
Dark ambient
Length131:17
Label Alien8 Recordings
Shalabi Effect chronology
Shalabi Effect
(2000)
The Trial of St. Orange
(2002)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Pitchfork Media (7.1/10) [2]

Shalabi Effect is the eponymous debut album of 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. [3]

Eponym Someone or something after which something is named

An eponym is a person, place, or thing after whom or after which something is named, or believed to be named. The adjectives derived from eponym include eponymous and eponymic. For example, Elizabeth I of England is the eponym of the Elizabethan era, and "the eponymous founder of the Ford Motor Company" refers to Henry Ford. Recent usage, especially in the recorded-music industry, also allows eponymous to mean "named after its central character or creator".

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. The first incarnation of Shalabi Effect released a limited edition cassette recording. In 1998, Shalabi Effect doubled in size by adding Alexandre Saint-Onge on double bass and Will Eizlini on tablas. That year "Aural Florida" was recorded at Red Rocket Studios in Montreal, and was originally slated to be a "side" of a split CD with Godspeed You! Black Emperor, produced by Alien8 Recordings.

Eagle Nebula H II region and open cluster in the constellation Serpens

The Eagle Nebula is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Chéseaux in 1745–46. Both the "Eagle" and the "Star Queen" refer to visual impressions of the dark silhouette near the center of the nebula, an area made famous as the "Pillars of Creation" imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The nebula contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions, including the aforementioned Pillars of Creation.

Contents

Track listing

Disc One

  1. "Wyoming" – 11:52
  2. "Vicious Triangle" – 9:47
  3. "Mending Holes in a Wooden Heart" – 7:02
  4. "Aural Florida (Approach)" – 10:00
  5. "Aural Florida" – 26:37

Disc Two

  1. "Mokoondi" – 12:57
  2. "Amber Pets" – 7:55
  3. "Boardwalk at Apollo Beach" – 6:10
  4. "Apparitions" – 5:43
  5. "On the Bowery" – 13:01
  6. "Leaving a Horse to Die" – 5:03
  7. "Return to Wake Island" – 9:03
  8. "ﺍﻠﻮﺮﺪﺓ ﺍﻠﺑﻴﻀﺎﺀ" (Arabic: "White Rose") – 6:04

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Pitchfork Media review Archived 2006-08-30 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. "Shalabi Effect by Shalabi Effect". alien8recordings.com. Alien8 Recordings. Retrieved 2010-07-11.