Big Mango

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Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing including digital download. Following several visits to the city over the years, Osama (Sam) Shalabi moved to Cairo in 2011, arriving at an apartmen t one block from Tahrir Square, in the midst of Egypt's 'Arab Spring'. Shalabi describes the Big Mango, his 2013 phenomenal work for his Land of Kush big-band, as "a love letter to Cairo" framed by "the beautiful, surreal madness of the city... as joyous, horrific, historical events were unfolding". Show more