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...crazy because I'm in Iraq." ? Sawiris has a big appetite for fun as well as for risk. He and his glamorous wife, Ghada, are fixtures on Cairo's social scene, and in the 1990s he opened some of the Egyptian capital's coolest night spots, including Piano Piano, a trendy bar frequented by Egyptian movie stars. He says he cut down on such schmoozing after his father's friends worried that it could hurt the family's reputation. But Sawiris boasts: "I throw the best parties in town. It's a passion for me to see people happy." Still...
Plus, you're in a band called the Fishmongers, which plays right into that image. Yes, the music itself is a pretty well-kept secret, and it's going to remain that way. I play guitar and piano. I'm just a strummer...
...work for, like, 24 or 30 hours, 14 hours at a time, then readjust after that. Then I do it again four or five days later. Sometimes I'll be able to hear the melody and everything right in my head, sometimes I'll play on the guitar or piano or something, and some kind of thing will come. Other times I'll just go into the studio and play riffs with other people and then later on listen to the tapes and see what that wants to be. I don't know. My songs...
...Saudades.” In another dance that combined the seemingly ill-fitting, three dancers, two clad in red dresses not inappropriate for salsa-dancing, performed a kind of stilted sexy salsa step while—not a meringue mix—but a classical piano soundtrack stuttered in the background...
...Memory” were set to rolling, soothing violin crescendos. Of course, just when the music became lulling, a sudden spark of energy in each dance would undoubtedly be unfurled. In “Dacey’s Memory,” this came in the form of dissonant piano notes that climaxed to a frustrated crash of chords and immediately caused a fall to silence in the soundtrack...