It's a really beautiful Arabic word and it basically means a resignation to fate, like you're kind of letting the chips lie where they will.

I had a real moment when in Egypt with our manager and I kind of had to make a decision whether I wanted to jump further off the precipice of being a rock star or just be Kav again and go back home to Fremantle.

"Foreign Land" was created from an eight-second sample of traditional Turkish music that the band looped and added drum parts to.

[5] The album's middle eastern flavour also extends to the title track, "Inshalla", which was written by Temperley while he was travelling around Egypt with the band's manager.

Inshalla is the first Eskimo Joe album to be released in Europe, as a result of the band's signing with the European arm of Warner Music Group.

Whilst the album will also be released in the United States the band intends to concentrate on Europe, after having recently toured there.

[6][7] The band have played a special preview concert coinciding with the album launch on 29 May for fans from their home town in Western Australia in the Astor Theatre, tickets were given away by Nova 937 as a competition.