{"product_id":"samaa-audition-vinyl-lp-due-out-28-11-25","title":"[Sama'A] (Audition) Vinyl LP 2025","description":"Tracklist:\u003cp\u003e1. Ya Annas [Oh, People]\u003cbr\u003e2. Isma'a [Listen]\u003cbr\u003e3. El Haris [Anxious]\u003cbr\u003e4. Farah 'Alaiyna [Joy Upon Us]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn iterative, developmental, explorative suite of music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFastidious fans may recognise the album's tracklisting as that of Ahmed Abdul-Malik’s Jazz Sahara. After his success collaborating with the pianists Thelonious Monk and Randy Weston, Jazz Sahara was the first record Abdul-Malik made as a leader and was released in 1958. It used the flame of late Fifties jazz to light the wick of North African folk music and acted as a reminder of the Arabic origins of jazz, creating a distinct, unique sound that was far beyond its time. In Malik’s Jazz Sahara, there is no piano. The ongoing work of each member of [Ahmed] then is to think differently, to wonder how the music will work and to take a risk on trying it out - an extraordinarily compelling feat of imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing group improvisation strategies and recording in single takes, ???? [Sama'a] (Audition) tackled the full suite of Jazz Sahara in just one session, with ‘Ya Annas [Oh, People’] and ‘Isma'a [Listen’] being previously unrecorded. 'Farah 'Alaiyna’, also released on 2019’s Super Majnoon, sounds unrecognisable - the slow, heady stomp and repeated phrasing of 2019’s embryonic [Ahmed] having been blast furnaced and sped up four-fold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is four kaleidoscopic, relative miniatures that move, unfold and re-imagine at a very different scale and proportion than [Ahmed]’s previous records. It’s a dizzying, euphoric music and an extraordinary record of a group moving through space-time like no other.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Assai Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56260161208703,"sku":"ROKU046LP","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1565\/5653\/files\/5056321698513_a2bcb583-7c6c-4663-9c1b-0f73d5887a3b.jpg?v=1773172382","url":"https:\/\/assai.co.uk\/products\/samaa-audition-vinyl-lp-due-out-28-11-25","provider":"Assai Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}