Author: z.nawfal

ZIAD NAWFAL is a Beirut-based DJ, radio host, music promoter and producer, and the co-founder of ground-breaking independent label Ruptured with Lebanese studio owner and engineer Fadi Tabbal. From 1992 to 2021, Nawfal relentlessly exposed Lebanon and the world to the special local and regional independent music talent, on his weekly radio shows ‘Ruptures’ and ‘Decalages’ broadcast on Radio Lebanon 96.2FM. Between 2013 and 2021, he was also the managing director of Irtijal Festival, the first and foremost festival for experimental music in Lebanon.

Ziad Nawfal Mix for Stegi Radio with guest MARYLOU // 03 March 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 DJ and sound artist MARYLOU. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.

Marylou is a Berlin-based French DJ and sound artist known for eclectic, genre-defying sets that blend dub, noise, traditional music, improv jazz, footwork, and breakcore. Associated with Morphine Records and the SHAPE+ platform, she has played at major venues like Berghain, Café OTO, and festivals including Terraforma, CTM, and Meakusma.

TRACK LISTING:

  1. Gonçalo F Cardoso: Danum Valley & Canopy Walks
  2. Jessica Ackerley: Introduction
  3. Sunn O))) meets Nurse with Wound: Ash On The Trees {The sudden ebb of a diatribe}
  4. Unknown Artist: Naluwahañadibu Inina {I’m looking for you}
  5. Typhonian Highlife: Chitahoori Training Tape
  6. lusor: We’re Relatings
  7. Ale Hop: Why Is It They Say A City Like Any City
  8. Marshall Allen, Roscoe Mitchell, Milford Graves & Scott Robinson: Flow State
  9. Benji Da Freak: Jeben U Mozak
  10. Mark Fell & Will Guthrie: Infoldings 1
  11. Meredith Monk: Turtle Dreams
  12. Dj Haram: Badass (feat. Carmen Nebula)
  13. Mohammad Reza Mortazavi: Swamp (Ricardo Villalobos Variation)
  14. Meitei / 冥丁: Touba / 塔婆
  15. Driftmachine: Dogov Godov
  16. Tyler Friedman: Jlaljar
  17. Bruce: Wesley’s Sniped All Our Bleedin’ K (Re-Vamped)
  18. Lord Spikeheart: Vistas (feat. DJ SCOTCH ROLEX)
  19. Carne Tremula: Refraction
  20. Chad Dubz: Wall Of Sound (feat. Magugu)
  21. Material: Temple Drumming
  22. Mai Mai Mai: Karakoz
  23. Susumu Yokota: Kawano Hotorino Kinoshitade
  24. H.R Giger’s Studiolo: Giger’s Bust of Mantegna

JOY MOUGHANNI // A Separation From Being // Vinyl Edition

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Out 26 March 2026 via Ruptured.

We released A Separation From Habit by Joy Moughanni on cassette in April 2025. It now returns on vinyl.

Limited to 200 copies. 50 are available via our Bandcamp page. The rest will travel with Joy on his upcoming tour.

Built from archival tape recordings (1975–1985) by Georges Tarazi, alongside radio fragments and electronic processing, the album moves through conflict and memory, without offering resolution.

Named one of The Quietus Albums of the Year 2025 (#48).

Available now, in small quantity.

Thank you for listening and supporting.

LISTEN / ORDER

Ruptured News // Land 02 + Land 03 benefit compilations by Tunefork Studios

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Two new compilations have just been released by our friends at Tunefork Studios and Beirut Synth Center, bringing together a vast cross-section of musicians and artists from Beirut and beyond.

At a moment when Israeli bombing and military escalation have once again forced mass displacement across southern Lebanon, this project gathers work from artists across generations and scenes, to raise funds for grassroots aid supporting those who have been pushed from their homes.

The list of contributors speaks for itself: Bachar Mar-Khalife, Julia Sabra, Mayssa Jallad, Postcards, Charif Megarbane, Yasmine Hamdan, Zeid Hamdan, Mazen Kerbaj, Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, Sary Moussa, Faten Kanaan, Mary Lattimore with Pascal Semerdjian & Fadi Tabbal, and many more. It genuinely feels like everyone who matters in Beirut’s musical landscape is present here, alongside close friends and collaborators from further afield.

Sales from the compilation go to Beit Aam and other local initiatives working directly with displaced families in Beirut and the South.

You can listen, purchase, and contribute directly via Bandcamp:
tuneforkstudios.bandcamp.com/album/land-02-a-compilation-for-the-displaced-in-lebanon
+
tuneforkstudios.bandcamp.com/album/land-03-a-compilation-for-the-displaced-in-lebanon

Thanks
xRPTD

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:

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

Ruptured News // Mayssa Jallad European Dates // April 2026

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Mayssa Jallad will perform a series of April dates across Scandinavia and the Netherlands, accompanied by Julia Sabra (Snakeskin, Postcards) and Pascal Semerdjian (Postcards, SANAM).

These concerts include solo presentations of Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels, as well as two appearances at Rewire — including a special collaboration set with Swedish producer Civilistjävel!, expanding on their work together on Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels – Versions.

Upcoming dates:
07 Apr 2026 – Göteborg, SE – Kulturhuset Bergsjön
08 Apr 2026 – Copenhagen, DK – Alice
09 Apr 2026 – Malmö, SE – Inkonst
10 Apr 2026 – The Hague, NL – Rewire (trio performance)
12 Apr 2026 – The Hague, NL – Rewire + Civilistjävel!

[Tour organized by NADA]

Mayssa Jallad: Marjaa (The Battle Of The Hotels)

Civilistjävel! x Mayssa Jallad: Versions

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

Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Worldwide FM // 22 July 2025

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ZIAD NAWFAL for WORLDWIDE FM, UK – 22 JULY 2025

This mix is a personal offering, curated for Worldwide FM as a guest selection and composed entirely of music released on Ruptured Records, a label I co-founded in Beirut in 2008 with Fadi Tabbal of Tunefork Studios, and have been nurturing ever since through radio and a growing catalogue of experimental sound.

For over fifteen years, Ruptured has worked at the margins of genre and geography, sustaining a space for independent music-making in a country repeatedly brought to the edge. It has become a platform for artists whose practices emerge from a landscape of political violence and cultural erasure; yet whose works resist despair, insisting instead on complexity and  collaboration.

https://worldwidefm.net/episode/ruptured-records-ziad-nawfal

  1. Yara Asmar – to live by a body of water is to forget it exists
  2. Nour Sokhon & Stefan Christoff – Another time is now
  3. Kinematik – Muhibbi Al-Kanari
  4. The Bunny Tylers – Mothers Make Murderers (Summer 91)
  5. Mayssa Jallad & Fadi Tabbal – Ad-Douar
  6. Fadi Tabbal – Absence or death
  7. Julia Sabra – Minor Detail
  8. Munma – Midday shoulder surfing
  9. Elyse Tabet – Bright Bells (Bana Haffar Remix)
  10. Shatr Collective – Kafas
  11. Joy Moughanni – Interlude
  12. Sandy Chamoun / Anthony Sahyoun / Jad Atoui – Bihali
  13. Farah Kaddour & Marwan Tohme – Nawal
  14. Two or the Dragon – Dance Grooves for the Weary Part 1
  15. Charbel Haber / Nicolas Jaar / Sary Moussa – Crashing waves Part 4

(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) – POSTCARDS

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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.

POSTCARDS

Camille Cabbabe – K2
Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe – Lateral
Big Thief – Double Infinity
caroline – caroline 2
Ichiko Aoba – Luminescent Creatures
Blood Orange – Essex Honey
Prefaces – Acqua Marina
Juana Molina – DOGA
Turnstile – NEVER ENOUGH
Fadi Tabbal – I recognize you from my sketches

(2025 end-of-year lists) – PREFACES

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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.

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

PREFACES (Charif Megarbane, Salim Naffah, and Pascal Semerdjian)

(Charif’s picks)
Guess What – Solar Boats
Florence Adooni – AOEIU (An Ordinary Exercise in Unity)
Dana & Alden – Speedo
Sven Wunder – Daybreak
Stereolab – Instant Holograms on Metal Film

(Salim’s picks)
Snakeskin – We live in sand
Mac DeMarco – Guitar
Aviram – Drag Me Down
Charif Megarbane – Hawalat
SANAM – Sametou Sawtan

(Pascal’s picks)
Smote – Songs from the Free House
Sary Moussa – Wind, Again
Yo La Tengo – Old Joy (Original Soundtrack)
Geese – Getting Killed
Michel Maouad – Good Thing We Cleaned The Stairs