Shahara-Ja

First ever reissue of an obscure-as-you-like electrosoul bomb from Sydney, Australia, 1989!

Shahara-Ja was apparently a staple on the wedding and nightclub circuit circa the time of his sole release, I’m An Arabian Knight but unfortunately that wasn’t enough to get the record noticed and most of the stock was destroyed.

Mercifully some copies were saved from vinyl hell and have made their way into mixes of late, which is where Left Ear stepped in and dusted it down for this necessary reissue, reanimating the slick slyde of I’m An Arabian Knight, whose vocals actually sounds closer to Jacko than the Egyptian Lover cues you might expect, whilst the instrumental reveals its tehcnicoloured middle eastern riffs on the B-side and also in an Extended Funky Mix with pinging rimshots dating it firmly to the late ‘80s.