When The Sandbox Has No Edge

Who do we play with when the sandbox has no edge? The fifth album from Saint Abdullah & Eomac began as a poem and became a record that refuses to stay in one place. The title arrived in a cab in Paris. Mohammad Mehrabani read it aloud from a list of options. Ian McDonnell said: that's interesting, what does that mean? The answer, it turned out, was the album. Saint Abdullah, the project Mehrabani formed with his brother Mehdi in 2016, has always operated in the space where sound does what language and data cannot. Not protest music in any conventional sense, but music built on the conviction that a three-minute composition can reach places no statistic or body count ever will.