Recording: Sam Shalabi

Artist: Sam Shalabi

Song: Ghosts [composer: Albert Ayler]^*

Recorded at The Music Gallery (Departures Series), July 15, 2022.

Sam Shalabi - Ghosts

Before the groovestorm of the dozen-strong orchestre tout puissant marcel duchamp, Montréal-based oud maestro Sam Shalabi took to the crowded stage on his own, and unleashed something like a flowing river of music, filled with flourishes that never seemed so much like showy displays of technique as suggestive elaborations of a story he was delighted to be sharing.

^* Thanks to Sam for passing along the title to this one.