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Artist: Ain Horus
Title: Risala Min Shahed Ayan
Catalogue: MMT05
Release Date: 2 April 2023
Release Format: Cassette Tape (Edition of 50)
Record Label: Modular Mind
Country : Lebanon
Genre: Film / Ambient / Experimental	

Not only a musical reinterpretation, but a “cinematic audiobook” of the 1996 cult film ‘Al Nom Fil Assal’: ‘Risala Min Shahed Ayan’ is a sample-based album by Osman Arabi as Ain Horus.

Osman Arabi launches his newest project Ain Horus (Arabic: عین حورس, The Eye of Horus) with the 18-track album ‘Risala Min Shahed Ayan’ (Arabic: رسالة من شاھد عیان, “A Letter From An Eyewitness”) on Lebanese experimental label Modular Mind.

The entire album consists of samples and sounds from the 1996 Egyptian cult film ‘Al Nom Fil Assal’ (Arabic: النوم فى العسل, English: “A Deep Sleep” or “Sweet Oblivion”). The satire features legendary comedian Adel Emam, directed by the great Sharif Arafa and scored by Omar Khayrat, the film tackles topics like sexual impotence, corruption, ignorance and frustration in Egyptian society which led it to become one of a kind audio-visual experience in the Arab world.

Osman Arabi describes the format of his album as an “18-track cinematic audiobook”. The artist draws all the sonic elements from the film that he processes, arranges and unfolds like scenes from a childhood memory. Creating a so-called cinematic audiobook is Arabi’s approach to the remains of a forgotten pan-Arabic cultural phenomenon that he intends to modernize in his own musical language. Within the composition, he transforms each track into a scene. His musical reinterpretation is an homage to the very essence of the film that revolves around the question: What does the spirit of a world that has gone mad look like?

Ain Horus’ debut on Modular Mind will be released on April 2nd, 2023. The 18-track album will be released on all digital platforms and as a limited edition cassette tape.

Osman Arabi is a guitarist, composer, producer and sound designer from El-Mina, Tripoli, Lebanon, who lives and works in Berlin. A unique figure in the international noise and industrial music scene, Arabi is especially known for pioneering noise and black metal waves in Lebanon in the early 2000’s.

His work elicits images of desolate industrial landscapes and shamanistic rites. From his beginnings in black metal, Arabi has progressed through different genres, such as dark ambient, industrial, tribal, psychedelic, electro-acoustic, power electronics and noise. His many projects have included Seeker, Kafan, Veinen, Shamanic Death Trance, The Ritual Inclusion Of Code, 20.SV, as well as nihilist Dutch collective Stalaggh. In 2000, Arabi stopped performing live -- vanishing into the underground, not resurfacing until 2009. For the past decade, Arabi has been developing -- in complete secrecy -- his "occult guitar" playing, based on the sigil work of Austin Osman Spare.

Tracklist:

1. Enzar
2. Khafafeesh
3. El-Nas Etganenet
4. Risala Min Shahed 3ayan
5. Wasfa Tohbeyya
6. Etkallemou
7. Modon Khaliya
8. Faasel
9. El-Wad3 El-Amni
10. Taba3od
11. Kabl El-Akhera 12. Mounashada
13. El-Dawwama 14. Faasel 2
15. Khalal
16. Kalak
17. Khitab
18. Basmatul El-Fajr

Credits:
Written and Produced by Osman Arabi 
Recorded during May - July 2022 at Studio Horus, Berlin-Neukölln Mastered by Kujo at Modular Mind
Artwork by Ain Horus - Layout by Zekra 
Released by Modular Mind

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Risala Min Shahed Ayan

[MMT05] Ain Horus - Risala Min Shahed Ayan

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