Taken from Teslam
Out now on Abduction Records (ABDT054)

Music by: Cherif El-Masri
Words by: Alan Bishop

Track Personnel:

AB: Lead Vocals
Cherif El-Masri: Bass, Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Chorus Vocals
Aya Hemeda: Chorus Vocals
Adham Zidan: Organ, Chorus Vocals
Magued Nagati: Drums

With -
Eyvind Kang: Violin/Viola
Mohamed Ibrahim: Cello
Sammy Sayed: Chorus Vocals

Recorded at The Mix Studios by Hussein Sami
Mixed and Mastered at Zulu Sound Seattle by Evan Schiller

Find Teslam on CD & LP at your favorite record store / online retailer or at Forced Exposure here: http://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/ABDT.054LP.html

Priests & Poets

Taken from Teslam
Out on Abduction Records (ABDT054)

Music & Words by: Adham Zidan

Track Personnel:

Aya Hemeda: Lead Vocals
Adham Zidan: Lead Vocals, Organ
AB: Chorus Vocals, Bass
Cherif El-Masri: Chorus Vocals, Electric Guitar
Magued Nagati: Drums

Recorded at The Mix Studios by Hussein Sami
Mixed and Mastered at Zulu Sound Seattle by Evan Schiller

Find Teslam on CD & LP at your favorite record store / online retailer or at Forced Exposure here: www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/ABDT.054LP.html

Teslam

The Great Implosion

Side B of The Invisible Hands 7 inch "Insect Dilemma/Disallowed b/w Lili Twil"
Out now on Abduction Records (ABDT051)

Personel:
Alvarius B: Electric Bass, Chorus Vocals
Cherif El-Masri: Electric Guitar
Aya Hemeda: Lead Vocals
Magued Nagati: Drums
Adham Zidan: Organ

Recorded live at Sonic Studios, Cairo, 2012. 
Engineer: Hussein Sami

Lili Twil

Side A of The Invisible Hands 7 inch "Insect Dilemma/Disallowed b/w Lili Twil"
Out now on Abduction Records (ABDT051)

Personel:
Alvarius B: Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Cherif El-Masri: Electric Guitar, Chorus Vocals
Aya Hemeda: Chorus Vocals
Magued Nagati: Drums
Adham Zidan: Organ, Chorus Vocals

Recorded live at Sonic Studios, Cairo, 2012. 
Engineer: Hussein Sami


Insect Dilemma/Disallowed

NEW ALBUM "TESLAM", out NOW on Abduction 

The Invisible Hands is a transcontinental collaboration between Alvarius B. (Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls) and four stellar young musicians from Cairo, Egypt: Cherif El-Masri, Aya Hemeda (both formerly of the popular Egyptian group Eskenderella), Adham Zidan and Magued Nagati. On Teslam, The Invisible Hands expand the already panoramic range of their eponymous debut LP with a haunting set of melodic, impeccably crafted songs whose vintage psych/hard-rock edge conjures up early Alice Cooper almost as often as it recalls Sun City Girls and 20th-century icons like Ennio Morricone and Serge Gainsbourg. The band's exquisite sonic palette is deepened by Cairo-based guest musicians Mohamed Ibrahim, Mohamed 'Moe' Asem, and Sammy Sayed, as well as by longtime SCG compatriot Eyvind Kang. Recorded in Cairo between 2013 and 2014, Teslam represents a further evolution of Alvarius B.'s peerlessly idiosyncratic pop sensibility, which is just as volatile and unclassifiable as his more experimental work. His songwriting -- both on his own, and in partnership with Cherif El-Masri -- is marked by a unity of purpose that has compressed countless musical and emotional incongruities into a handful of sharp-edged, pitch-black jewels. A brooding track composed by keyboardist Adham Zidan ('The Great Implosion') perfectly complements the record's uneasy mood. As usual, Alvarius B.'s lyrics comprise an apocalyptic pile-up of cruel metaphors at the intersection of culture, politics and international crime. But they take on new power and new implications as sung by El-Masri and Hemeda, whose seductive voices are as inviting as a welcome mat at the gates of hell. Each song stands on its own while also fitting into a planet-sized jigsaw puzzle detailing dark associations and secret narratives that stretch back as far as the foundation of the world. Arguably Alvarius B.'s most accessible work to date, Teslam is a generously baited steel-jaw trap for the unwary listener. Like The Invisible Hands' 2013 debut, Teslam inevitably reflects the precarious political circumstances in which it was conceived and recorded. As such, it's a vivid document not just of an unlikely musical collaboration, but also of a critical moment of hope, defiance, rage and sorrow in one of the world's most venerable cities. [This limited-edition razor-edged stainless-steel CD comes in a beautiful die cut balsawood jacket that folds out to form a fully operational guillotine. Just kidding, but it does come as a digipak CD with lyrics booklet and lovely artwork]. --B. Kearney	

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