Massar Egbari

Massar Egbari is a band from Alexandria, Egypt.

The band, which formed in 2005, presents a kind of alternative Egyptian music, mixing rock, jazz and blues with Oriental music.[1] "Massar Egbari" means "Compulsory Track", a name intended to reflect how society forces people to lead their lives in a particular way.[2] Massar Egbari presents music and songs talking about social problems. Love is not the main concern although it represents a part of their songs.

Performances

In 2007, the band played for the first time in Europe as part of the Malta Arts Festival (Valletta-Malta),[3] Barisa Rock Festival - Rock for Peace (Istanbul-Turkey).[4]

In 2008, the band played in The Biennale of young artists from Europe and the Mediterranean in Bari, Italy.[5]

In 2009, Massar Egbari played at a festival in Cairo in support of the people of the Gaza Strip,[2] then at the International Adriatic-Mediterranean Festival in Ancona, Italy[1] and at the Fesival of the Mediterranean in Alexandria.[6] In the same year, Massar Egbari invited as special guests to perform in the Bienale of young artists in Skopje to perform with Monistra band from Macedonia in their Common project Alexsopje (Alexandria-Skopje).

In 2010, the band performed for the first time along with other artists from Africa in Sauti Za Busara Festival in Zanzibar.

On May 29, 2014, Massar Egbari will perform alongside Black Theama and Cairokee.[7]

Massar Egbari members (nationally and internationally) attended several workshops, won several prizes, as well as composing music for a number of movies. Massar Egbari will appear by the end of 2010 in El-Hawi, a film by Ibrahim El-batout (director of “Ein-Shams”) about people living in Alexandria, and in “Microphone”, a film by Ahmed Abdallah El-Sayed (director of “Heliopolis”) in a film taking about under-ground artists in Alexandria with Khaled Abo El-Naga, Menna Shalaby, Yosra El-Lozy and Alexandrian underground artists.

Massar Egbari was featured on the 2014 compilation Songs from a Stolen Spring that paired Western musicians with artists from the Arab Spring. On the album, Massar Egbari's "I Still Exist" was meshed with Maria McKee's performance of the Tony Joe White song "Ol' Mother Earth".[8]

Discography

Awards

Massar Egbari also won a Special Award in Other Songs Contest 2005 organized by the Euromed Café. 104 songs from more than 20 Mediterranean countries participated in the contest and the band's song "Kol El Khal" was selected to get a Special Recognition Award.[3]

Massar Egbari's song "Taam el byout" had won the same prize in the same competition in 2006.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Ancona palcoscenico del Festival Internazionale Adriatico Mediterraneo". anconainforma.it (in Italian). 28 August 2009. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
  2. 1 2 "An artistic upheaval". Al-Ahram Weekly. 29 January – 4 February 2009. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
  3. 1 2 3 "Une onde porteuse". Al-Ahram Hebdo (in French). 1–7 August 2007. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
  4. ↑ "Barışarock Beşinci Yılında da Barış Diyor". Bianet (in Turkish). 10 August 2007. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
  5. ↑ "La fontaine des miracles et des clichés". Al-Ahram Hebdo (in French). 11–17 June 2008. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
  6. ↑ "Farah El Bahr - Η Γιορτή της Θάλασσας στο Μεσογειακό Φεστιβάλ στην Αλεξάνδρεια Αιγύπτου". Sofia Times (in Greek). 14 October 2009. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
  7. ↑ "Pack of Cards".
  8. ↑ "Songs From A Stolen Spring". Valley Entertainment. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  9. ↑ "Massar Egbari* – إقرا الخبر Read The News". Discogs. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  10. ↑ "Songs From A Stolen Spring". Valley Entertainment. Retrieved 14 November 2014.

External links

Massar Egbari on Myspace

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