Cairo Liberation Front members Yannick Verhoeven and Joep Schmitz are pioneers in the Eurabia genre, creating enticing interplay of Western European and Middle Eastern artists.
Bagdaddy was born in Baghdad and grew up in the Netherlands and is certainly no stranger to the music scene. In 2017 she participated in Popronde and she is also label boss of her own ‘mid-finger-movement’ Bagdaddy Records. She’s also a booker at ‘t Stroomhuis.
The half-Afghan N.R Safi from Arizona has never set foot in Afghanistan, but Afghan music and melodies have always played in his head. After a period in his psych band The Myrrors, he started his solo project Naujawanan Baidar, armed with his grandfather’s cassettes.
