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Of Heliotaxis and Cosmic Knifing

album by Abu Lahab

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ22907438 ↗
Source-derived summary

Of Heliotaxis and Cosmic Knifing is an EP by Abu Lahab, independently released on October 14, 2013. Quotes from Nico's Desertshore album serve as appendixes for Of Heliotaxis and Cosmic Knifing, with samples of "Le petit chevalier" used prominently in the opening and closing tracks.

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Adapted from the Of Heliotaxis and Cosmic Knifing liner notes.

Editorial summary

“Of Heliotaxis and Cosmic Knifing” enters the record as album by Abu Lahab. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Heliotaxis, Cosmic and Knifing can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2013. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Heliotaxis, Cosmic and Knifing.
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“Of Heliotaxis and Cosmic Knifing” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Heliotaxis, Cosmic and Knifing provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q22907438. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Of Heliotaxis and Cosmic Knifing” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.