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Massar Egbari is an Egyptian band that was officially launched in 2005 from Alexandria, Egypt. The band consists of 4 musicians: Ayman Massoud (Keyboards), Hani El Dakkak (Guitar & Lead Vocal), Ahmed Hafez (Bass guitar, Tamer Attallah (Drums) & Mahmoud Siam (Guitars) who joined the Band in 2008. It presents a kind of alternative Egyptian music, mixing rock, jazz and blues with Oriental music. "Massar Egbari" means "Compulsory Detour", a name intended to reflect how society forces people to think and live their lives in a certain way, the band pokes fun at typical social norms and trends. The band mainly concentrates on presenting music and songs talking about social problems. Love is not their main concern although it represents a part of their songs.
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Performances
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".
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