The Cairo Gang was created in America. It has been acting as an operative for various organizations throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. The Cairo Gang will do what needs to be done, and by whatever means necessary, for the betterment of the environs that which they are called upon to fix, to rearrange, nurture or dismantle, employing the skills and practices obtained through several years of full immersion training from esteemed masters and teachers, who, with respect to their anonymity, shall remain nameless. Though they have been active for just over a decade, they have kept their presence next to invisible.
In the year 2006 they conducted a series of performances in the UK alongside the San Francisco entity known at the time as OCS. This occurred just before their debut release of recordings entitled The Cairo Gang in the same year by the defunct New York City label Narnack. In the fall of 2008 they went on their second outing, this time throughout California, alongside Chicago’s Pillars and Tongues. This was in order to scatter copies of The Cairo Gang’s second record entitled Twyxt Wyrd released in the same year by The Disneyland Reform Party. This record was a marked shift in The Cairo Gang, as it went from more of a scattered survey of differing styles and approaches, to a more unified sound. This record has plans to be re-issued in the winter of 2010 by UK label The Blackest Rainbow on a limited edition 12 inch record.
The subsequent EP entitled Holy Clover, which is a joint release by San Francisco’s Empty Cellar and UK’s Tin Angel (winter 2010), is yet another departure from previous works on account of its usage of cloning in order to preserve the singular vision of the subject in each tune. its suggested that it be played extremely loud on a preferably low quality hi-fi system so as to allow it to crack through the very mechanism of its transmission. It will preempt a third tour, this time in Ireland and UK in support of Baby Dee which will begin in late February. The Cairo Gang finds itself living in scattered corners of the world as it is in perpetual search for something it has yet to have found….
