Osman Arabi

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2024-11-26T00:38:00.007+02:00

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Bandcamp Feature

2023-06-09T11:39:00.009+03:00

Ain Horus interview/feature on Bandcamp

A lot of misinformation in there. I will point a couple of them..

I didn't grow up with 3 sisters and certainly my mother didn't tell me about Egyptian movies before going to work.

Interview badly translated from Arabic. Many points are placed out of context or wrongly formulated.

Stalaggh - Projekt Misanthropia - The Noize Foundation

2023-04-24T00:31:00.009+03:00

STALAGGH

Projekt Misanthropia - The Noize Foundation

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Ain Horus

2023-03-22T16:50:00.017+02:00

عين حورس

رسالة من شاهد عيان

Ain Horus

Risala Min Shahed Ayan

Tape / Stream

It's been a long time, 7 years since my last album

And it's been a longer time since I had the idea of starting this project

Now, at last, it manifested

V:XII | Lu-Cipher-Sabbatean

2023-03-16T11:57:00.021+02:00

V:XII

Lu-Cipher-Sabbatean

Vinyl - CD - Tape - Digital

Produced, co-written, mixed and mastered by yours truly

Stalaggh Re-Issues

2022-07-16T04:25:00.011+03:00

… 15 years later

I still remember when I recorded the noise foundation for this album in Mina

To this day I still have to fight for my share of copies (that means one copy)

And to this day I have to remind Stalaggh that I was a big part of this project too.

Anyway..

It's been a long ride and a long time since I posted here

I've been working on a lot of sounds these past years

. . . in time

Intent

2017-09-02T20:03:00.001+03:00

Osman Arabi

Intent

Stream/Order

Years went by..

Aging,

Transforming,

Fighting,

Destroying,

Retrying,

Losing,

Discovering,

Rediscovering,

Locating,

Relocating,

Disconnecting,

Reconnecting,

Invoking,

Evoking,

Absorbing,

Dissolving, #

Vanishing,

Grinding,

Meeting,

Trying,

Retrying,

Attempting,

Refusing,

Rejecting,

Indulging,

Hoping,

Willing,

Crafting,

Sharpening,

Re-Sharpening,

Re-Re-Sharpening,

Re-Re-Re-sharpening

And finding my way back to the Gods

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Soon..

2017-06-12T03:23:00.002+03:00

20.SV - The Great Sonic Wave (Tape Version)

2015-12-05T14:35:00.003+02:00

Released through Black Horizons

----Order----

Shamanic Death Trance - Zubayn (Digital Version)

2015-07-13T12:40:00.000+03:00

<a href="http://osmanarabi.bandcamp.com/album/zubayn">Zubayn by Shamanic Death Trance</a>

Shamanic Death Trance "Zubayn" remains one of my most intimate works and one of the very few solo guitar recordings I have made. Recorded back in 2008, released by Disease Foundry Recordings in 2009 and now available on my bandcamp page.

Existentiell Zine

2015-06-25T22:17:00.007+03:00

Can't recommend this zine enough. A truly special work from Cathal Rodgers. In-depth interviews with well thought questions (and yours truly is included).

The zine can be ordered directly from Cathal: rodgerscathal [at] yahoo [dot] com

Price including postage:

€12 Ireland

€13 Rest of the World

Incubate 2015

2015-06-08T16:08:00.002+03:00

Executing a live ritual at Incubate Festival - 18 September, 2015

For more info: http://incubate.org/2015/

Orchestra Omar

2015-03-02T10:35:00.003+02:00

Orchestra Omar is now out on vinyl through Sagittarius A Star

Osman Arabi - electric guitar

Umut Caglar - electric guitar

Charbel Haber - electric guitar

Maurice Louca - electric guitar

Sam Shalabi - electric guitar

Sharif Sehnaoui - electric guitar

Fadi Tabbal - electric guitar

Tony Elieh - electric bass

rec. Feb. 21/22, 2014 at the Bustros Palace, Beirut, Lebanon.

Digitizing The Ritual Inclusion of Code

2015-02-25T23:30:00.004+02:00

Beta Wave Nemisis by The Ritual Inclusion of Code

Album of The Year

2014-12-31T21:49:00.000+02:00

The Guardian: Avant garde of the year: 20.SV – The Great Sonic Wave

20.SV is named after the radiation poisoning threshold beyond which human beings cannot survive for longer than seven days, but more importantly is a master of bleak, austere and clinical electronic sound manipulation who has found an utterly ideal sparring partner in vocalist Alan Dubin. For the uninitiated, Dubin fronted arguably the most harrowing band ever to exist, Khanate (also featuring Stephen O’Malley of SunnO)))) and is capable of the kind of vocal techniques that are not otherwise heard beyond the confines of vextreme horror movies or outside of the night terrors suffered by withdrawing drug addicts. On The Great Sonic Wave, Dubin vocalised at his most restrained, issuing clammy whispers, screeched orders and croaked entreaties rather than soul piercing necrotic howls of abject debasement and despair. His singular voice, combined with 20.SV’s progressive, insectile, ambient industrial electronica, made for a thrillingly tense and disturbing listen that built and built in waves of unstoppable horror. Just superb.

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/dec/30/the-playlist-best-middle-eastern-north-african-music-of-2014

The Guardian Feature

2014-12-03T19:53:00.000+02:00

John Doran wrote an article about 20.SV The Great Sonic Wave in The Guardian.

About Projekt Misanthropia

2014-11-17T21:52:00.001+02:00

Recently there have been some well spread articles regarding Stalaggh's Projekt Misanthropia. Unfortunately some of them offered misinformation or pointed out towards old rumors posted on forums. In order to clear this and set things straight, New Era Productions and I had a talk about it and the label has now publicly stated on discogs.com my credit for doing the noise foundation on Projekt Misanthropia and Pure Misanthropia to avoid any further "confusion" on the matter.

BBC Radio 3 - Late Junction

2014-11-03T15:32:00.001+02:00

BBC Radio 3 will be broadcasting some of my music during its Late Junction Programme tomorrow,

Tuesday, November 4, 2014 at 11:00 PM (UK time).

The program can be streamed live at the following link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04n5tmb

The 11th Sonic Wave

2014-10-23T13:15:00.000+03:00

20.SV - The Great Sonic Wave is now on bandcamp
The Great Sonic Wave by 20.SV

The Wire Review

2014-10-03T21:16:00.002+03:00

Review of "Destroying Symmetry" by The Wire (October issue, 2014)

A Lebanese musician who has worked extensively in noise, industrial and black metal, Osman takes a rather divergent approach on this tape. Playing solo electric guitar, with reportedly occult overtones, he has made one of the most interesting string music albums of the year. His playing reminds me of something like a cross between Bill Orcutt and Matt Valentine. He has Orcutt’s melodic astringency, but it is balanced against a semi-ecstatic feel that recalls Matt’s playing at its most hermetic.

Live at Cafe Oto

2014-09-16T02:18:00.000+03:00

Celebrating five glorious years of The Tapeworm… starring a clew of worms: CM von Hausswolff, BJNilsen, Dale Cornish and Phil Julian,Andrew Poppy, Osman Arabi, Autodigest, Zerocrop and Graham Dowdall.

at Dalston’s finest…

Café OTO

18-22 Ashwin Street

London E8 3DL

16.09.14 at 20h00

£5.00 in advance, £7.00 on the door

Tickets: www.wegottickets.com

For more info click the following link

Osman Arabi - Destroying Symmetry - Reviews

2014-09-07T17:58:00.000+03:00

Vital Weekly - 941

I must admit I never heard of Osman Arabi, from Tripoli in Lebanon. More than a decade ago he was occupied with recording industrial music, noise, psychedelic music, dark ambient, and worked with the likes of "Seeker, Kafan, Veinen, Shamanic Death Trance, The Ritual Inclusion of Code, harsh electronics outfit 20.SV, as well as nihilist Dutch collective Stalaggh" - none of which I heard before. In 2000 he stopped performing live and in 2009 he resurfaced, armed with an electric guitar and playing "occult guitar, based on the sigil work of Austin Osman Spare". Which is not something one can detect all too easily here, but maybe I belong to the uninitiated? August 9th last year he improvised the nine pieces on this cassette and it sounds awesome. Blues music for sure, but blues music of an even more unsettling kind. Obviously one could think of Bill Orcutt, or maybe Derek bailey, but Arabi sometimes repeats phrases - oh the horror in improvised music - which brings a great musical element to the table. This is a dark and haunting release, not for the weak of mind. Desolate beauty.

ATTN:Magazine

To read about Arabi’s initial guitar dilemma is to consider whether I, too, am a mere puppet for my own listening habits. Is my guitar playing a pure extension of my own creative will, or an amalgamative reflection of the guitar playing of others? Arguably, the consideration becomes even more worrying during the act of improvisation: perhaps this supposed current of pure impulse is merely a library of the learned and the idolised; a playbook from which I throw forth imitations of the listening material I find stimulating.

Arabi has found a way of shattering this samsaric feedback loop based on Austin Osman Spare’s sigil work, drilling a hole through which the subconscious will can pass into the air uninhibited. The results are documented here as a solitary take, with just a delicate reverb residing between his strings and my own ears. Sometimes it sounds like Arabi has rearranged the positions of his own fingers, writhing across the fretboard in a succession of wretched splays, twitching in sudden zags of transformation. At others, his plucking hand shivers and stops suddenly, causing alternations between sighing open strings and scrunched up harmonies of blues and stifled vibration – a babble of choke and chicaning release.

This may have felt stiff and discordant in another context, like a body forcing back against its own muscle mechanisms, manoeuvring between ideas with the incoherence of a dying slide projector. Yet somehow (and in a way that perhaps needs to be physically heard to be entirely understood), each gesture is the curve and ripple of a solitary thread; a direct translation of Arabi’s own electricity in the now, without the disruptive skew of unwanted outside influence. It feels thoroughly real-time. Now Arabi has discovered a channel for genuine self-impulse, he can now play in the knowledge that he will never repeat himself – just as all transient beings develop and reshape in dialogue with time and environment, his guitar playing can adapt accordingly.

Konfrontationen (35th Edition) 2014

2014-07-15T13:45:00.001+03:00

Performing my first live ritual abroad at the

Konfrontationen Festival 35th year, Nickelsdorf, Austria on Saturday, 19th of July, 2014

13 Questions

2014-06-17T22:48:00.001+03:00

An interview for Prepared Guitar was given recently and can be read at the following link:

http://preparedguitar.blogspot.com/2014/06/osman-arabi-13-questions.html

Destroying Symmetry - Untitled Seven

2014-06-11T13:41:00.000+03:00

Osman Arabi

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Bandcamp Feature

Stalaggh - Projekt Misanthropia - The Noize Foundation

Ain Horus

V:XII | Lu​-​Cipher​-​Sabbatean

Stalaggh Re-Issues

Intent

Soon..

20.SV - The Great Sonic Wave (Tape Version)

Shamanic Death Trance - Zubayn (Digital Version)

Existentiell Zine

Incubate 2015

Orchestra Omar

Digitizing The Ritual Inclusion of Code

Album of The Year

The Guardian Feature

About Projekt Misanthropia

BBC Radio 3 - Late Junction

The 11th Sonic Wave

The Wire Review

Live at Cafe Oto

Osman Arabi - Destroying Symmetry - Reviews

Konfrontationen (35th Edition) 2014

13 Questions

Destroying Symmetry - Untitled Seven

V:XII | Lu-Cipher-Sabbatean