Music + Film

FLAP MY WINGS: Songs from We Live in Cairo

Alongside brothers, songwriters, and collaborators, Daniel and Patrick Lazour, Maddy produced and released the album Flap My Wings: Songs from We Live in Cairo, on the tenth anniversary of the Tahrir Square protests that began the Egyptian Revolution in 2011. The album features songs from the Lazours’ musical, the Richard Rodgers Award-winning We Live in Cairo, seen in the Spring of 2019 at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Virtually gathering an extraordinary group of artists from across the globe during the coronavirus pandemic, the remotely recorded album features artists from the cast of the musical as well as major Arab activist-songwriters, including Ramy Essam, Emel Mathlouthi, Rotana, Hadi Eldebek, Hamed Sinno, Naseem Alatrash, and the brothers themselves.

In addition to the artists heard on the album, acclaimed Egyptian artist Ganzeer has created the album artwork and an original animation of the title track, Flap My Wings.

Writers The Lazours  Executive Producer Madeleine Foster Bersin
Music Supervision + Selected Arrangements Madeline Smith Album Art Ganzeer Conceived with Taibi Magar Music Production, Engineering, + Mixing Robin Buyer Mastering Ryan Schwabe Additional Orchestrations Michael Starobin Percussion Direction Jeremy Smith Recorded remotely + at Pulse Music (NYC).