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Cosmic innovation: How Maurice Louca changed the rules to make Elephantine
It’s almost startling the ways that Louca, 36, has evolved as a musician over the years.
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Masafat Cairo: Within striking distance of larger musical aspirations?
On aiming beyond musicians’ exposure and learning from the choices of our predecessors.
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Hussein Sherbini objects: A review of ELECTRO CHAABI
While the album’s title may be misleading, for Sherbini’s music is far from mahraganat, he chose it to make use of and criticize what he considers an over-enthusiasm…
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Controversial tunes: D-CAF’s music, 100Copies and mahraganat
This year’s edition left both audiences and artists frustrated over the curation and management of the big-budget, well-publicized contemporary arts festival.
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A history of CIC’s 10 years in posters
On the 10th birthday of the exhibition space, library, photography school and photographic facility, Jenifer Evans sat down with CIC’s new artistic director.
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Salute the Parrot: Fantasy of the real
"I feel that the musicians and audience are light years ahead of the institutions." Kinda Hassan talks to Maurice Louca and Maha Maamoun.
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Everybody’s a producer in Cairo
It wasn’t always this way: 15 years ago, the alternative music scene was dominated by guitar-based bands playing progressive rock and heavy metal.
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Hiccups and energy: Looking back at this year’s D-CAF music
The third annual Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF) in Cairo was a manic month of running to catch cultural events. By the end of the music program I…
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Band of the week: Islam Chipsy
Islam Chipsy is the star. If you’ve ever seen him in action, it’s not hard to understand why.
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Band of the week: Mahmoud Refat
He’s always pushing sonic boundaries while still engaging listeners, luring post-rave refugees into a visceral journey of glitchy roads and intelligent techno.
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Music, crisis and creative spaces in Cairo
We figured, if we’re all going to be cooped up in our houses, we might as well be cooped up in a music studio where we can create,…