On February 6, 2009, Lebanese experimental rock band XEFM will take to the stage at The Basement, in Beirut, and create a new soundtrack to famed Russian art-house film Man with a Movie Camera. XEFM are no strangers to the Cinemix tradition, as they have already contributed a short piece of music to a Lebanese silent…
Continue reading ➞ Ruptured Live // XEFM “Man With A Movie Camera” // The Basement
I asked some of my favorite musicians from Beirut and beyond, to tell me what their favorite records of 2011 were… Charbel Haber: musician (Scrambled Eggs, Johnny Kafta’s Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra, XEFM) 1- Tim Hecker: Ravedeath, 1972 2- Mike Cooper: Radio Paradise 3- Gil Scott Heron & Jamie xx: We’re New Here 4- M83: Hurry Up,…
Continue reading ➞ (2011 end-of-year lists) – CHARBEL HABER
I asked some of my favorite musicians from Beirut and beyond, to tell me what their favorite records of 2011 were… Fadi Tabbal: producer, sound engineer, musician (The Incompetents, Under The Carpet, XEFM, Robert Polson) – Tim Hecker: Ravedeath, 1972 – Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues – Bon Iver: Self-titled – Destroyer: Kaputt – James Blake:…
Continue reading ➞ (2011 end-of-year lists) – FADI TABBAL
[From left to right, clockwise: Haber, Elieh, Rizkallah; Tabbal; Sehnaoui; Ko; Kerbaj; Haber; Elieh; Rizkallah] Charbel Haber, singer, guitarist and composer with Lebanese rock band Scrambled Eggs, told me a few days ago that he had been planning for these sessions for three years, and the end result was ‘a dream come true’, for him.…
Continue reading ➞ Review // Scrambled Eggs & Friends // Tunefork Studios
Ziad Nawfal started playing records in Beirut’s government radio station, Radio Liban, in 1992. Early on, his eclectic music programming took in such different genres as indie rock, alternative pop, 60’s and 70’s psychedelia, dance music and electronica, with little care for political correctness or ‘proper’ merging of styles. Nawfal’s thirst for sharing musical oddities and discoveries…
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[“A glance at Beirut’s contemporary alternative musical scene” was written for & published by ELLE ORIENT MAGAZINE in 2008] To this day, I am not entirely sure what the initial spark was. I keep going through different scenarios and different events in my head, but I’m still unsure as to what started it all. It…
Continue reading ➞ Review // Beirut’s Alternative Musical Scene // Version 2
