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Tahtib

by Sea Urchin

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  • Digital Album
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  • Sea Urchin Japanese Tour T Shirt
    T-Shirt/Apparel + Digital Album

    Cosmic T shirts commemorating the Sea Urchin Japanese mini tour that never was (with Bokeh's own 7FO)....the dates never happened, but the tee design survived the sandstorm (and isn't that a great story).

    Design by Patrick Savile, 2 colour screenprinted on Gildan Ultras

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  • Vinyl LP
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Full colour vinyl LP designed by Bokeh svengali Patrick Savile.
    Ships with real love.

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  • 5th Anniversary Tape Edition
    Cassette + Digital Album

    Never before on cassette! Limited cassette repress to celebrate Bokeh's 5th birthday (cos the vinyl is long sold out)

    Includes unlimited streaming of Tahtib via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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about

Tahtib is food for your mystical post-exotica musical landscape - hand drums played by computers fall with a squelch into the swamp, horses neigh at dub bassists, there’s water everywhere full of urchins and tarot cards and just when you think you need to breathe this record breathes for you. Tahtib’s future ambient glyphs are matched with the rapid-fire staccato "taks” of imaginary tahtib sticks (tahtib is an Upper Egyptian martial art which was enjoyed and practiced by Leila's grandfather Baba Aly). Leila Hassan sings seamlessly between Arabic and Italian (and possibly more) breathing pure soundart alchemy across Francesco Cavaliere’s library of sound effects and textures.

You remember Sea Urchin? They added their signature aquatics to Osaka-native 7FO’s 7” for Bokeh back in 2017. The duo of Leila Hassan and Francesco Cavaliere debuted a totally unique expression of ‘library music as future music’ on a series of small run cassettes before their proper debut LP Yaqaza was released on legendary Belgian imprint Kraak (Pan American, Limpe Fuchs, Typhonian Highlife). This caught the ear of Bokeh designer svengali Patrick Savile, who adds his vision to the LP cover. Francesco has also released solo explorations on Hundebiss (Kelman Duran, Lil Ugly Mane) and Edições Cn (Dolphins Into The Future).

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released May 17, 2019

Sea Urchin are Leila Hassan and Francesco Cavaliere
Recorded and mixed by Francesco Cavaliere
Design by Patrick Savile

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