With a Cairene music scene that has matured over the past decade, independent music enthusiasts started turning their heads towards other independent music markets to explore. Among several Arab bands, whose popularity has been on the rise over the previous couple of years, is the Jordanian band, Jadal. Now, it’s one thing to listen to music and appreciate it, and a whole other thing to pick the brains behind it. The morning following Jadal’s latest performance at The Music Tent, I got a chance to have a little chit chat with Mahmoud Radaideh, band founder, songwriter, guitarist, vocalist, and producer. Tell me a bit about the band’s history We kick started in the year 2003 with our cover for AbdelHalim’s “Al-Tobah”, and by the year 2006 we were performing our original tracks for the first time on stage. We kept compiling our original tracks, until we introduced them as our first album ‘Arabic Rocks’ in 2009. Between the years 2006 and 2009, we released several singles, among which was ‘Salma’ which I’d written for my niece. In 2009, Jadal flew for the first time to perform on a foreign stage in … Continue reading Jadal: Reintroducing Jordanian Music