Ruptured Album Releases // SANDY CHAMOUN / CHARBEL HABER

May 29, 2026May 28, 2026NewsLeave a Comment

Ruptured is pleased to share two new releases that arrived this season from artists working through very different forms, but shaped by similarly difficult and transformative conditions.

Out now, May a soft sun bless your sky while you wait for the inevitable is the new full-length by Charbel Haber, written and recorded in Paris in early 2025. It is his first solo album since leaving Beirut, emerging from a period marked by distance and ongoing upheaval.

Built through layered guitar, looper pedals, and modular synthesis, the record unfolds gradually, with melodic lines that stretch patiently across long-form compositions. Some pieces accumulate into dense and saturated structures, while others remain sparse and restrained.

The album was composed, performed, recorded, and produced by Charbel Haber, mixed by Fadi Tabbal at Tunefork Studios in Beirut, and mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market in Montreal. Artwork by Ali Cherri. Liner notes by Vanessa Ague. Released by Ruptured on vinyl and digital formats, distributed worldwide by Cargo UK.

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Also newly announced is Sawt El Doumouh (The Sound of Tears), the second solo album by Beirut-based artist, singer, and actor Sandy Chamoun, out June 5 on Ruptured.

Many listeners will know Chamoun through SANAM, Ghadr, and The Great Departed, projects through which she has consistently approached voice as something both musical and social, drawing from folk traditions, satire, theater, and collective forms of performance from Lebanon and across the Arab world.

Written between 2023 and 2025 during the recent war in Lebanon, Sawt El Doumouh brings together Tarab, Sardinian Cantu, sparse electronics, and percussion in a collection centered on expression under pressure, and on what remains possible to voice in conditions of exhaustion and collapse.

The album was produced by Sandy Chamoun and Anthony Sahyoun, who also handled synths and electronics. Percussion throughout the record is by Ali Hout, with buzuq by Abed Kobeissy on “Ataba.” It was recorded and mixed by Anthony Sahyoun at Tunefork Studios in Beirut and mastered by Heba Kadry in New York. The accompanying one-sheet was written by Daryl Worthington. Artwork by Elissa Assaf, with photography by Aya Saleh.

Sawt El Doumouh will be available digitally and on vinyl via Ruptured, and distributed worldwide by Cargo UK.

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Ziad Nawfal Mix for Stegi Radio with guest JOY MOUGHANNI // 03 February 2026

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A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal – this broadcast features a guest mix by musician and producer JOY MOUGHANNI. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.

Joy Moughanni is a Beirut-based producer, engineer, and songwriter, and a partner at Tunefork Studios. He emerged from Beirut’s alternative scene through the electronic and pop projects Pomme Rouge and Gizzmo, producing four EPs before moving into a solo practice and becoming a collaborator with artists across the region.

TRACK LISTING:

Joy Moughanni – The Voice I’ve Yet To Understand
Autechre – M4 Lema
Ben Frost – Killshot
SANAM – Sametou Sawtan
Sary Moussa – A Storm, a Gift
aya – hexed!
Jerusalem In My Heart – Tanto
NP [Jad Atoui & Anthony Sahyoun] – Coins With Memory
David Bird – Aetheric Resonance
Fennesz – Rivers of Sand
Fadi Tabbal – I am all that is left
Ghadr – Al-Moulatham
Joy Moughanni – Interlude

Ziad Nawfal Mix for Stegi Radio with guest FATEN KANAAN // 02 December 2025

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A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal – this broadcast features a guest mix by musician and composer FATEN KANAAN. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.

Faten Kanaan is a composer whose work uses counterpoint as a narrative tool to craft music that is mysterious, smudgy, and deeply melodic. Of Syrian, Palestinian, Jordanian, and Lebanese heritage, Kanaan was born in Germany, grew up between Europe and the Middle East, and is now based in Amman, Jordan. Recent concerts have included appearances supporting Alessandro Cortini, Colin Stetson, Blonde Redhead, and William Basinski.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Broadcast – Monica (Berberian Sound Studio)*
2. Zbigniew Preisner – Alexandre (La double vie de Véronique)*
3. Farah Kaddour & Marwan Tohme – Ghazel
4. Kitka – D-oi rgăoa (Romanian)
5. Ellie Wilson – Sanctuary
6. Carter Burwell – Theme from Blood Simple*
7. Os Mutantes – Le premier bonheur du jour
8. Wadi el Safi – Daq bab el beit (excerpt)
9. Hikaru Hayashi – Theme de l’eau (L’ile nue)*
10. Marcel Khalife – My Song (excerpt)
11. Martien Keesmaat – Erik Satie – Danses de travers
12. Faten Kanaan – Book of Changes
13. Park Hye Ri – Strange Sun (Boys Over Flowers – excerpt)*
14. Fadi Tabbal – And Then…
15. Basiani Ensemble – Shen Khar Venakhi (Svetitskhoveli Tradition)
16. Michel Polnareff – Sous quelle étoile suis-je né? (excerpt)
17. Ahmad Malek – Omar Gatlato*
18. Snakeskin – Olive groves
19. Nishimura Naoaki – Nocturne #1
20. In-Resonance Collective – Fayha Choir//Zahrat al Madain (excerpt)
21. Pascal Danel – Kilimandjaro (excerpt)
22. Księżyc – Klepana
23. SANAM – Goblin
24. Imed Alibi & Khalil EPI – Hattaya

* = film or tv soundtrack/score

(2025 end-of-year lists) – SNAKESKIN

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As the year winds down, we asked every artist whose music Ruptured released in 2025 to share the records that stayed closest to them over the past months.

SNAKESKIN (Julia Sabra & Fadi Tabbal)

Kara-Lis Coverdale – A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever / From Where You Came / Changes in Air
Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe – Lateral
Jefre-Cantu Ledesma – Gift Songs
Blood Orange – Essex Honey
caroline – caroline 2
Claire M Singer – Gleann Ciuin
William Tyler – Time Indefinite
Lucrecia Dalt – A Danger to Ourselves
Ichiko Aoba – Luminescent Creatures
Oklou – choke enough

(2025 end-of-year lists) – FADI TABBAL

December 22, 2025December 23, 2025ChartsLeave a Comment

As the year winds down, we asked every artist whose music Ruptured released in 2025 to share the records that stayed closest to them over the past months.

Published here over the coming days, these end-of-season charts gather the albums that accompanied writing, touring, waiting, and living through it all.

FADI TABBAL

Geese – Getting Killed
Maria Somerville – Luster
Cameron Winter – Heavy Metal
kelly moran – Don’t Trust Mirrors
Claire M Singer – Gleann Ciuin
William Tyler – Time Indefinite
Joanne Robertson – Blurrr
Lucrecia Dalt – A Danger To Ourselves
Kara-Lis Coverdale – From Where You Came
aya – hexed!
Oklou – choke enough

Ziad Nawfal Mix for Stegi Radio with guests SNAKESKIN // 07 October 2025

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A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal – this broadcast features a guest mix by Lebanese dreampop duo SNAKESKIN (Julia Sabra & Fadi Tabbal). Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.

Snakeskin is a Beirut-based duo making electronic dreampop that incorporates ambient, industrial, and experimental elements. The project brings together producer and musician Fadi Tabbal and singer songwriter Julia Sabra, also a member of indie trio Postcards.
The duo’s third album We live in sand will be released on October 10, 2025 as a co-release between Ruptured and Beacon Sound. Written as the war in Gaza spread to Lebanon, it is their starkest and most immediate work to date, combining industrial beats, ambient dirges, and Julia’s distinctive vocals.

TRACK LISTING:

1- Snakeskin: Ready
2- Nadah El Shazly: Kaabi Ali
3- Lucrecia Dalt: Caes (feat. Camille Mandoki)
4- SANAM: Goblin
5- Snakeskin: October sun
6- Kelly Moran: Don’t Trust Mirrors
7- Sary Moussa: Everywhere at Once
8- Jerusalem In My Heart: Ana Lisan Wahad (feat. Farida Amadou & Pierre-Guy Blanchard)
9- Dina El Wedidi: The Moon
10- Gizzmo: A Change in the Seasons
11- Snakeskin: Blindsided
12- Mabe Fratti: Kravitz
13- Postcards: Poison
14- Blood Orange: Look at You
15- Snakeskin: Black water

Press Review // Snakeskin // We live in sand

November 1, 2025November 3, 2025Press ArchiveLeave a Comment

Acclaim for We live in sand, the latest album by Lebanese dreampop duo Snakeskin, released by Ruptured & Beacon Sound in October 2025:

“Snakeskin don’t so much shed layers from release to release, they harden their resolve, reinforcing their messaging into songs which are even more powerful and defining… [They] have created an extraordinary sound document which is so poignant in these troubled times and which will remain enlightening for much longer.” – John Parry, Backseat Mafia https://www.backseatmafia.com/album-review-snakeskin-we-live-in-sand-enlightening-intense-dream-pop-from-the-ever-impressive-beirut-duo/

“With dark minimalism orchestrated from the bottom of the vortex, if We live in sand doesn’t reduce you to tears, then you’re probably hollow inside. The best art often comes from the darkest places; the same ones many of us will never encounter.” – Simon Kirk, Sun-13 https://sun-13.com/2025/10/10/snakeskin-we-live-in-sand/

“There’s a chilling disconnect at the heart of Lebanese duo Snakeskin’s third album, We live in sand: On the surface, their music invokes a lineage of wistfully melodic electronic pop. But once you dig into the album’s lyrics, a far bleaker scenario presents itself. Beneath the sweetness of the music, Sabra lays bare the tragedy playing out across the border—and on our screens, in our feeds, in our thoughts and consciences.” – Phil Sherburne via substack https://futurismrestated.substack.com/p/fr-140-spheres-nexuses-horizons

“We live in sand is an emotionally weighty album, though it’s also one in which the Lebanese duo manage to find beauty in the darkness.” – Shawn Reynaldo via substack https://firstfloor.substack.com/p/first-floor-285-money-matters

“There’s an uncompromising authenticity to the album, presenting each track as a visceral interpretation of mourning. Amidst the starkness, hope could easily seem lost. Yet the album’s most powerful moments emerge in subtle but striking sparks of defiance and resilience; and that, in itself, is a form of hope.” – SceneNoise https://scenenoise.com/New-Music/Snakeskin-s-We-Live-in-Sand-Captures-Hope-Amidst-Destruction

“There’s an atmosphere of grief, anger and frustration throughout, but as with so much of the music Sabra and Tabbal make — together or separately — there is hope here too.” – Arab News https://www.arabnews.com/node/2619195/lifestyle

“Over a decade of collaboration, producer Fadi Tabbal and singer-songwriter Julia Sabra have sculpted a sound that is both melancholic and radiant: a haunting palette of reflection, collapse and resistance that keeps developing in their new album We live in sand.” – Le Guess Who? https://leguesswho.com/news/snakeskin-new-album

“The provisional nature of life in a country touched by war has infused all of Snakeskin’s music with an urgent beauty, made of dream-state laments, elegiac organ drones and the glitch and glitter of electronic pop beats.” – Dusted Magazine https://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/796850309807882240/snakeskin-we-live-in-sand-rupturedbeacon

Featured in Will Hermes New Music + Old Music substack: https://newmusicoldmusic.substack.com/p/singing-the-unspoken

Utility Fog broadcast on FBi Radio by Peter Hollo: https://www.fbi.radio/programs/utility-fog/episodes/utility-fog-28th-september-2025

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Ruptured presents “The Noise We Carry” for Radio Elsewheres

October 27, 2025October 28, 2025NewsLeave a Comment

October 2025

Ruptured co-founders Ziad Nawfal and Fadi Tabbal have crafted “The Noise We Carry,” a sprawling 50mn audio mixtape for Radio Elsewheres and the Elsewhere on Record exhibition at Art Windsor Essex.

The piece moves through Beirut itself: its traffic, collapsing infrastructure, seaside stillness, and the din of everyday life. Drones and layered textures meet archival radio fragments and selections from Lebanon’s underground post–civil war scene (including Scrambled Eggs and Munma), creating a patchwork of music, memory, and city noise. Interwoven are intimate voices and recordings from the 2019–2021 protests, tracing themes of displacement, forced departure, and creative survival.

Released on cassette, the recording loops continuously; with each pass, the magnetic tape degrades, turning medium into message and memory into material. Nothing lasts unchanged. Nothing returns exactly. And yet, the transmission persists.

Ruptured has long nurtured Lebanon’s experimental music, hosting concerts, producing albums, and preserving cultural memory amid collapse. “The Noise We Carry” carries that mission further: a transmission from Beirut, from the noise of daily survival, sent out to anyone listening.

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The mixtape will be broadcast during the exhibition at Art Windsor Essex and on Radio Elsewheres’ website. Check broadcast times here.

Discover the exhibition here and explore Radio Elsewheres, the experimental sound platform founded by Velibor Božović, Steve Bates, and Claudia Zini, here.

Ruptured News // Snakeskin European tour // Nov. 2025

October 11, 2025October 10, 2025NewsLeave a Comment

Nov 04 Berlin, Germany – Morphine Raum
Nov 06 Zutphen, The Netherlands – Modka Beiroet
Nov 08 Utrecht, The Netherlands – Le Guess Who?
Nov 09 Ghent, Belgium – Groot Begijnhof Church
Nov 12 Paris, France – Les Relais Solidaires
Nov 13 Oslo, Norway – Kafe Haerverk
Nov 14 Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Murmur

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Ziad Nawfal Mix for Stegi Radio with guest SARY MOUSSA // 02 September 2025

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A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal – this broadcast features a guest mix by Lebanese musician SARY MOUSSA. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.

Sary Moussa is a Lebanese electronic musician, sound designer, producer, and engineer, deeply rooted in Beirut’s experimental and underground music scenes. Emerging in the late 2000s under the moniker radiokvm, he released his debut full-length album, Issrar, in 2014 on the Ruptured label. Performing under his own name, Moussa followed up with Imbalance in 2020 on Nicolas Jaar’s Other People imprint: an album shaped by childhood memories and regional soundscapes, blending Greek-Catholic chants, ambient noise, and the sonic imprint of southern Lebanon.

Moussa’s work is characterized by a fusion of drone-driven compositions and dance floor-ready electronica, emphasizing generative sound design and intricate sonic textures. His latest album Wind, Again was released by Other People in summer 2025. Beyond his solo projects, Moussa is an active collaborator across various artistic disciplines. He has composed music for theater, dance, film, and art installations.

TRACK LISTING:

Sary Moussa – Everywhere at once
Two or the Dragon – Dance Grooves for the Weary pt. 1
Cinna Peyghami – Sympathetic Fillings
Jerusalem in my heart – Wa Ta’atalat Loughat Al Kalam pt.1
Aho Ssan and Nicolas Jaar – Le Tremblement
Amina Hocine – Ātamōn I
Maurice Louca – Yara’ (Fire Flies)
Biliana Voutchkova and Phill Niblock – Biliana
Mana – Archipelaghi pt.2
Hania Rani – Dreamy
Charbel Haber, Nicolas Jaar and Sary Moussa – Crashing waves dance to the rhythm set by the broadcast journalist revealing the tragedies of the day pt.4
Asil Ensemble – Free group improvisation
Sary Moussa – White Dust
Fadi Tabbal – (Keep Beating)
Charbel Haber and Sary Moussa – Pity City (unreleased)