And they made it happen. After concerts in the Cairo Opera House and a tour of swiss underground clubs they recorded 10 songs in an old studio in Shobra, the heart of popular Cairo. Escaping the usual cliches about oriental music isn't easy. When talking about Egypt, you automatically think of sand, camels and pyramids. But Cairo is a busy urban city where 13 million people struggle for everyday life.
Traffic is hell and the pop music is all electronic beats twisted in a mayheim of selfish pop.
This encounter doesn't reallt fit your usual world music standards, where exotism counts more than reality. Neither of us had heard such sounds collide excepts in our wildest fantasies. Today they are reality. Alain Meyer, Tel. Contact Barraka Prod.