Baskot Lel Baltageyya

Baskot Lel Baltageyya

Baskot Lel Baltageyya (meaning ‘cookies for thugs’) is a Cairo-based project headed by musician Adham Zidan and poet Anwar Dabbour. From the start, Zidan has resisted the idea of it being pinned down as any one thing - for him, it can be a band, an entirely new genre, or simply a consumable. In their phantasmagoric live shows, Baskot Lel Baltageyya’s psychedelic grooves, as heard on this year’s self-titled LP, also take on new shapes. Those astute enough will locate in the band’s off-kilter tracks a sense of humor distinctively Egyptian; one in which, when life becomes absurd, culture follows suit, and aims to be more nonsensical than reality.

Photography by Maged Nader

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