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Below The Radar 16

Track 14

Credit Thien V

Sam Shalabi + Stefan Christoff

"Elephantine"

Forthcoming

(Howl! Arts Collective)

Sam Shalabi says:

"Our duo began as a friendship that grew out of long conversations about music, social justice and politics and then evolved naturally into this musical dialogue. The core of our approach is to continue that conversation and hear how these two mother instruments (maybe the two most weighted down by their own respective traditions and tropes) might speak directly and simply to each other through improvisation.

This piece is named after a Nubian Island in Aswan, in Upper Egypt and is inspired by it and music from the region."

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