Maurice Louca : Saet el Hazz (The Luck Hour) Sub Rosa

LP, €20

  • A1 El-Fazza'ah (The Slip And Slide) 10:21
  • A2 Bidayat (Holocene) 4:23
  • A3 Yara' (Fire Flies) 4:19
  • B1 Saet El Hazz (The Luck Hour) 8:31
  • B2 El-Gullashah (Foul Tongue) 4:16
  • B3 Higamah (Hirudinea) 6:11

Maurice Louca is one of the most gifted musicians and composers on Egypt's thriving underground music scene. This full-length album draws voraciously on Arabic music, psychedelic folk.

The title 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.”

Saet El Hazz (The Luck Hour) is a long form composition of six movements, recorded over the course of a week in August 2019 at A/B studios in Brussels.

Middle Eastern Experimental Folk Ambient