{"id":41852,"date":"2019-04-04T16:58:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T14:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/cairo-liberation-front-drops-new-electro-chaabi-single-sagira\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:35:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:35:51","slug":"cairo-liberation-front-drops-new-electro-chaabi-single-sagira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/cairo-liberation-front-drops-new-electro-chaabi-single-sagira\/","title":{"rendered":"Cairo Liberation Front drops new Electro-Chaabi single, &#8216;Sagira&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23427 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cairo-Liberation-Front-Sagira.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cairo-Liberation-Front-Sagira.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cairo-Liberation-Front-Sagira-759x542.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cairo-Liberation-Front-Sagira-661x472.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cairo-Liberation-Front-Sagira-465x332.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cairo-Liberation-Front-Sagira-375x268.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>The duo unveils a new single featuring\u00a0Iraqi\/Dutch female vocalist Bagdaddy.<\/h4>\n<div>\n<p>Formed by\u00a0Joep Schmitz\u00a0and Yannick Verhoeven, Cairo Liberation Front (CLF) that had impulsively begun as two geeky, somewhat naive Dutch devotees of Egyptian electro-cha3bi, blossomed into a deep musical exchange between artists from both the Middle East and Western Europe.<\/p>\n<p>First noticed for their Electro-Chaabi mixtapes, their live shows earned them gigs in several European clubs and festivals. Following their\u00a0quest to spread cutting-edge Middle-Eastern sounds to audiences around the world, they initiated Eurabia, a self-curated club night inviting groundbreaking artists from all over the Middle-East, namely Rizan Said, Acid Arab, Islam Chipsy, Maurice Louca and Mehmet Aslan.<\/p>\n<p>After being exposed to so much new visionary music, CLF became inspired to start creating music themselves. The first result is the EP <em>Nymphaea Caerulea<\/em>, then followed by a second effort,\u00a0<em>Eurabia vol.1.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/600757791%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-xGkIB&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>&#8220;Sagira&#8221; is the first single in a row of releases upcoming this year. The song is written by their new vocalist Bagdaddy, who wrote the song from a mother&#8217;s perspective. The song tackles finding peace facing the inexorability of death. That&#8217;s the lesson she is\u00a0teaching her little son and daughter, whom she calls &#8216;sagir\/&#8217;sagira&#8217;, which means &#8216;little one&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>Read Next:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/30-best-albums-first-quarter-2019\/\">The 30 best albums of the last three months<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The duo unveils a new single featuring\u00a0Iraqi\/Dutch female vocalist Bagdaddy. 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