The Dwarfs of East Agouza

The Dwarfs of East Agouza was founded in Cairo by electronic musician Maurice Louca (Alif, Bikya), experimental composer and guitarist Sam Shalabi (Shalabi Effect, Land of Kush), and punk singer Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls, Alvarius B.). The trio plays free, improvised music blending elements of jazz and krautrock with influences from Arabic music and Egyptian shaabi. Their concerts are ecstatic and unpredictable sound rituals, where a dynamic chaos is sustained by electronic rhythms, free riffs, and microtonal melodies.