Maurice Louca – Higamah (Hirudinea)

Maurice Louca has shared the second single from upcoming album Saet El-Hazz (The Luck Hour)

The droning, hypnotic single is a stunning endcap on a collection of songs drawing heavily on Arabic music, psychedelic folk, and freeform jazz.

Saet el Hazz is a coded saying in Egypt to refer to a good time and usually implies a great deal of debauchery. “When you mention to someone that you’ve had a saet hazz, there are no questions asked. It is what it is.”

The initial spark for Saet El-Hazz was Louca’s desire to collaborate with “A” Trio, the Lebanese improvisational group featuring Mazen Kerbaj on prepared trumpet, Sharif Sehnaoui on prepared guitar, and Raed Yassin on prepared double bass. “When the three of them come together they create a sonic cosmos entirely their own. I started by composing music that I wanted to have exist within this sonic world—at times in harmony, or clashing with it, and all the emotional ranges in between.”

Saet El-Hazz (The Luck Hour) is out 9/24 via Sub Rosa & Northern Spy. Pre-order it on Bandcamp.