NOTIZIE PRINCIPALI
Like his childhood hero, Jimi Hendrix, Magdy started his musical career as a sideman to other artists where he gained vast experience and honed his stagecraft until the need to tell his own story (coupled with a prodigious talent on guitar and backing vocals that often outshone his paymasters) led him centre stage. From there he inevitably ventured into the previously uncharted waters of songwriting. An intense and fruitful spell, locked away with an acoustic and a pen, followed. The concept of Cairo Son had been born and with the addition of bass and drums - the classic 3 piece being the only line up Magdy could ever envisage for his music - Cairo Son, the band, became reality.
As happy pickpocketing the flair and grit of Hendrix, Zepplin and AC/DC as it is reconstructing the metal sound those bands had, themselves, influenced, Cairo Son makes a shameless nod to the quality of the past, sidesteps the mediocrity of the present and creates a sound for the future that’s fresh, instant and utterly unwavering in its intent. Hard, riff-heavy and, lyrically, brutally honest, Cairo Son will restore the faith you’ve lost in music.
Magdy Abdel-Rehim 23 novembre 2010 10:25