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CairoScene
02-08-2025
- Entertainment
- CairoScene
Chiati Loses Himself in ‘Cairo Traffic' for New Music Video
The video takes us on Chiati's afro-melodic house journey through the chaotic metropolis. Aug 02, 2025 Egyptian multi-instrumentalist and electronic live act Chiati has dropped the official music video for his latest single 'Cairo Traffic'. Directed by Ziad Yosry, and co-produced by Armaal's Ahmed Khalil the video takes us on Chiati's afro-melodic house journey through the chaotic metropolis. Shot amid honking cars and the relentless flow of the city's traffic, the video captures the unfiltered energy that inspired Chiati to make the track in the first place through a cinematic lens. Dreamy, often hazy frames are intercut with live street recordings, the visuals dissolving at times, mirror the layered, percussive textures of the song, placing Chiati himself at the center of the fray, performing on the back of a cruising truck, and grooving to himself with the roads around him in full motion, as if a it were a fever dream whilst in the midst of the tracks inception in the studio. 'Cairo Traffic' initially came through as part of Chiati's debut double release on Animal Trainer and Dario D'Attis' Swiss electronic dance label Hive Audio and since reached #1 on Anghami's electronic charts.
CairoScene
11-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CairoScene
Chiati Unveils Double Release 'Cairo Traffic' / 'Wither Away' on Hive
Chaiti reveals two tracks of emotional house that eschew convention for more mundane and introspective scenarios on Hive Audio. Apr 11, 2025 Egyptian producer and live act Chiati has just dropped a double release on Animal Trainer and Dario D'Attis' Swiss electronic dance label Hive Audio. Titled 'Cairo Traffic' and 'Wither Away'. 'Cairo Traffic' is a hypnotic afro-melodic house journey into the chaotic metropolis, where Chiati interweaves street recordings of incessant car horns and classical Egyptian instrumentations like Mizmar, Riq and Tabla into a driving groove layered with melodic synth work, resulting in a club-ready tune that pulses with the energy of Cairo's bustling roads. On the other hand, 'Wither Away' is hauntingly melancholic, more of a supercut of Chiati's intimate side. His haunting falsetto vocals - echoing, 'Do I have to change myself, can I not be myself' - waft through emotive house arrangements like a late-night reverie.
