Labels: Nashazphone
Review by: Captain Fidanza
The cover features a photograph of an emaciated corpse, perhaps a reference to the fact that Osiris is often believed to be the Egyptian god of the afterlife, but maybe just because the artist recognised the cadaver.
ISIS is the name for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Islamic State, and by its Arabic language acronym Daesh, which is a Salafi jihadist militant group that follows a fundamentalist, Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam.
To say that ISIS is a group of ne’er do-wells is putting it mildly; but to put it slightly better, I’m going to invoke the masterful work of Tim Key who wrote a splendid poem about the Taliban. The Taliban were a sort of the forerunner to ISIS; kind of like when Jefferson Airplane became Jefferson Starship and then finally, once they had got rid of all the heretics they became Starship and released their masterpiece … We Built This City on Rock and Roll.
The Taliban,
should be bloody banned.
If I ran Iran,
or Afghanistan,
I’d ban them
and I’d can them.
I’d fan them, (light them and then fan them to get the flames going up them)
And then I’d lock up the leaders and re-educate the followers.
I’m pleased to report that the music of Sam Shalabi doesn’t invoke the atrocities of Starship, but it does seem to be going out of its way to bring to mind the behaviour of that other mob. It’s undoubtedly a criticism rather than an endorsement, but it’s still a bit odd.