Osman Arabi
Destroying Symmetry
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A unique figure in the international noise and industrial music scenes, Osman Arabi is a composer, producer and sound designer from Tripoli, Lebanon. His work elicits images of desolate industrial landscapes and shamanistic rites. From his beginnings in black metal, Arabi has progressed through such genres as dark ambient, industrial, tribal, psychedelic, electro-acoustic, power electronics and noise. His many projects have included Seeker, Kafan, Veinen, Shamanic Death Trance, The Ritual Inclusion of Code, harsh electronics outfit 20.SV, as well as nihilist Dutch collective Stalaggh. In 2000 Arabi stopped performing live - vanishing into the underground, not resurfacing until 2009…
For the past decade, Arabi has been developing – in complete secrecy – his ‘occult guitar’ playing, based on the sigil work of Austin Osman Spare. This new thread to his work was only recently unveiled, in late 2013, and is set to become the backbone of his live rituals hereon in.
Format
Edition of 150 copies.
Release notes
Improvised, channeled and recorded in one take at Tunefork Recording Studios on the 9th August, 2013 – Beirut, Lebanon. Mixed and mastered by Fadi Tabbal on the 10th October, 2013 – Beirut, Lebanon. This rite is a product of The Tapeworm, alright? – "Cockneys, children and animals" TTW#66, copyright 2014 The Tapeworm.
| A1 | Untitled | 4:47 | |
| A2 | Untitled | 4:11 | |
| A3 | Untitled | 5:17 | |
| A4 | Untitled | 4:19 | |
| A5 | Untitled | 4:46 | |
| B1 | Untitled | 5:33 | |
| B2 | Untitled | 3:48 | |
| B3 | Untitled | 5:01 | |
| B4 | Untitled | 5:07 |
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