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CAIRO FRED

It’s the question bands hear all the time. 

“So, what kind of music do you play?”

Or: “What’s your music like?”

Hmmm. 

Let’s start with this. (Brace yourselves, fancy French word coming through!) Cairo Fred is a band with its own distinctive sonic oeuvre. 

When we try to categorize our music any more deeply than that, the words start to pile up. Here was one of our recent attempts, and it wasn’t even Happy Hour yet: “Sort of a bastardized alternative pop noir funk infused hop rock.” 

See what we mean?  

We have heard almost as many interpretations about our music as there are people. We’ve been described as suggesting “the ungodly spawn of Warren Zevon and Steely Dan.” (We’re not sure if we can ever unsee that image!) One fan recently described our song London Town as “A more user-friendly version of The Clash. Or Bowie cross-pollinated with Simple Minds.” Desson’s voice has reminded some people of David Bowie and others think he sounds like Jim Morrison of the Doors. (Ground control to Major Jim?) 

Breaking news: Everybody has their own opinions and we welcome them all! 

We just believe that we’re very much ourselves, from the pedal steel sound that underscores almost every tune, to the one-of-a-kind stories you’ll find in our lyrics. If you want to hear a song about arguing mid-20th-century philosophers that has a French/Gypsy cafe musical setting…we are the band for you! We hope you just dig our songs, not only for what they might be, from love songs to rock numbers, but also for that Cairo Fred...uh, what’s the word here? Imprimatur! Too fancy? Would you take Cairo Fred twist? 

So, if our music reminds you of Billy Joel, Iggy Pop, or Weird Al Yankovic…

Actually, no one has mentioned those three yet.