Salah Ragab & The Cairo Jazz Band - Egyptian JazzReleased for RSD 2021 (June Drop) Strut present the definitive edition of the 1973 Egyptian jazz classic, 'Egypt Strut' by Salah Ragab and Cairo Jazz Band for the June Record Store Day Drop, 2021. Inspired by a concert in Cairo by Randy Weston in 1967 encouraging PanAfrican unity, drummer Ragab, Eduard Edu Vizvari, a Czech jazz musician, and Hartmut Geerken of Goethe Institut vowed to create Egypt's first jazz big band. Following the Arab Israeli war,

This time around we have 10 deep cuts from across the continental US of A and one from our neighbors up North

The bleakness of life that theåÊDownward SpiralåÊpresents is shown through tales of self-loathing and sexual deviancy

Leftfield and many more

Johnson’s signature guitar sound is at its most languid and refined

1965-1967'

Carrying on the series of Lou Reed re-issues for RSD + Black Friday

Available on limited edition LP format with extra heavy textured jackets and metallic silver ink

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‰ÛÏThe whole is much greater than the sum of its parts‰Û_ one of the most creative uses of sampling I‰۪ve ever heard

On its release in 1979

haunting and elegiac

it becomes clear that Rev was responsible for the group’s music