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Massar Egbari (Biography)

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. "Massar Egbari" means "Compulsory Track", a name intended to reflect how society forces people to lead their lives in a particular way. 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), Barisa Rock Festival - Rock for Peace (Istanbul-Turkey).

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

In 2009, Massar Egbari played at a festival in Cairo in support of the people of the Gaza Strip, then at the International Adriatic-Mediterranean Festival in Ancona, Italy[1] and at the Fesival of the Mediterranean in Alexandria. 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.

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.[dated info]

Members

Hani El Dakkak is the guitarist and lead singer of the band. He was influenced by blues and rock guitarists like Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler, and also by the Egyptian composer and singer Sayed Darwich, Hani created his own style, mixing blues and rock with pure Egyptian melodies.

El Dakkak played with many bands like “El-Resala” and Khaled Shams where he added his touch to their music. He is interested in sound engineering and has worked as a sound engineer in Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

Ayman Massoud: Ayman (keyboards) started his musical career in “El hob wel Salam” one of Egypt’s best independent bands- where he played for more than 6 years. As he is interested in Sound and in discovering new styles of music, Ayman participated in lots of workshops on Sound techniques, electronic music, oriental jazz. Ayman played with lots of musicians like the German Blues Guitarist Jurgen Schubert and joined 16 young musicians from Egypt and other Arabic countries in REMIX workshop organized by Fathy Salama (Winner of The Grammy Award 2005), In 2005 Ayman decided to start his new project “Massar Egbari” with his old friends Toussy and Hafez.

Ahmed Hafez has been the bassist of the band since 2005. Hafez started his musical career by forming “El-Refak” with Khaled Wafik, Khaled Shams and Safey from 1992 to 1997 when there wasn’t almost any independent music band in Egypt (Sequencer age).

He played with "El-Hob Wel-Salam" from 1997 to 1999, then with "Khaled Shams & The Sea Friends" from 2001 to 2004

In 2005, Hafez composed the soundtrack to the movie “Garconiera” (directed by Hazem Metwaly) where the theme (mixed by Ayman Massoud and with the voice of Boustan, Hafez’ wife) won a special mentioning prize from Euro-med Café in Other Songs contest 2006 http://www.euromedcafe.org/swinners.asp?year=2006&lang=ing, then in 2007 Hafez composed the soundtrack of an interactive educational web-cartoon project between children from Arles, France and children from Alexandria which was organized by l’Afriche.

In 2009, Hafez composed and recorded the musical short animated movie “Zlezla” (directed by Sherif Sherif), an animated movie based on an Egyptian folk story where drawings and singing (with the help of Boustan Hafez’ wife) were all done by children from 6 to 11 years old (including Hafez' daughters). “Zlezla” won 2 golden prices in 19th Cairo International Festival for Children’s Cinema.

His hobbies include pottery and sculpting. As a potter and a curator in Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Hafez organizes and teaches children pottery, sculpture, and how to make simple musical instruments.

Tamer Attallah, also known as Toussy, is the drummer and the "electronic man of the band". Influenced by Pink Floyd, he is trying to make a kind of electronic rock. Toussy is also a composer and he composed the soundtracks for many movies and video installations. Toussy released his track “Desert Bomb” in the first Egyptian Compilation CD for electronic music “Electro Egypt”.

Mahmoud Siam joined Massar Egbari in 2008. He used to play in El Hob Wel Salam. Mahmoud is a guitarist and a pianist.

Muhammad Nabil, also known as Hamdoun, was the last member to join Massar Egbari. H is the percussionist, as well as a member in some independent Alexandrian mmusic bands

Shady AbdelAzim was the band's guitarist, but left in 2008 in order to start his own project.

Awards

Massar Egbari won the Prize for The Best Band Performing Original Songs in Arabic in the first International Occidental Music Competition held in Bibliotheca Alexandrina in 2006. Ayman Massoud won the prize for Best Keyboard Player in the same competition.

Hafez won the prize for the best Bassist in the Second International Occidental Music Competition in 2007. Hany El Dakkak won the prize for the best Vocalist in the same competition.

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.

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

UNESCO awarded Massar Egbari the title of "Young Artist for Intercultural Dialog between the Arab and Western Worlds" in a ceremony held at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on April 13, 2011.

Source: wikipedia.org

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