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.

(2022 end-of-year lists) – PASCAL SEMERDJIAN

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It is the most wonderful time of the year.
We asked some of Ruptured’s recent contributors and collaborators, to tell us about the records they listened to the most in 2022.
Pascal Semerdjian’s collaborative album with Elyse Tabet, Low Toms Bright Bells and Darkest Spells, was released by Ruptured in December. 

PASCAL SEMERDJIAN

(2022 end-of-year lists) – JULIA SABRA

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It is the most wonderful time of the year.
We asked some of Ruptured’s recent contributors and collaborators, to tell us about the records they listened to the most in 2022.
Julia Sabra’s duo with Fadi Tabbal, Snakeskin, was released by Ruptured and Beacon Sound in October.  

JULIA SABRA

(2022 end-of-year lists) – ANTHONY SAHYOUN

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It is the most wonderful time of the year.
We asked some of Ruptured’s recent contributors and collaborators, to tell us about the records they listened to the most in 2022.
Anthony Sahyoun’s solo album Proof By Infinite Descent was released by Ruptured and Beacon Sound in November 2021.

ANTHONY SAHYOUN

(2022 end-of-year lists) – MAYSSA JALLAD

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It is the most wonderful time of the year.
We asked some of Ruptured’s recent contributors and collaborators, to tell us about the records they listened to the most in 2022. 
Keep your eyes and ears open for more Mayssa news in the new year.

MAYSSA JALLAD

(2022 end-of-year lists) – DAOU

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It is the most wonderful time of the year.
We asked some of Ruptured’s recent contributors and collaborators, to tell us about the records they listened to the most in 2022. 
Daou’s album Sanctuary was released by Ruptured in May. 

DAOU

(2022 end-of-year lists) – MARC CODSI

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It is the most wonderful time of the year.
We asked some of Ruptured’s recent contributors and collaborators, to tell us about the records they listened to the most in 2022. 
Marc Codsi’s album The Silence Between the New World and the Aftermath was released by Ruptured in July. 

MARC CODSI

(2022 end-of-year lists) – RAYYA BADRAN

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It is the most wonderful time of the year.
We asked some of Ruptured’s recent contributors and collaborators, to tell us about the records they listened to the most in 2022. 
Earlier this year, Rayya Badran curated digital compilation Beirut Adrift, featuring several tracks from the Ruptured catalogue. The compilation is part of a larger, all-encompassing project entitled “Norient City Sounds: Beirut”, curated by Rayya and commissioned by Swiss art platform Norient.     

RAYYA BADRAN

(2022 end-of-year lists) – JAD ATOUI

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It is the most wonderful time of the year.
We asked some of Ruptured’s recent contributors and collaborators, to tell us about the records they listened to the most in 2022. 
Jad Atoui’s album Lattices (a collaboration with Anthony Sahyoun under the name NP) was released by Ruptured in July 2021. 

JAD ATOUI

Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Movement Radio // 01 November 2022

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Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Movement Radio in Athens, featuring music from Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt, Iran, Morocco, Tunisia and Sweden. This mix was commissioned and produced by Onassis Cultural Center, and presented for the first time in the frame of MOVEMENT RADIO.

1. Jawad Nawfal – Planned Obsolescence [LB]
2. FRKTL – Leviathan Wakes [EG]
3. Azu Tiwaline – Tessiture [TN]
4. Abadir – Pause/Stutter/Uh/Repeat I [EG]
5. Sote – Trans Force [IR]
6. Bergsonist – Poverty [MA]
7. Moon Juice – Hypnotoad Molokheyya [EG/SE]
8. Safa – Bel Abbes [LB]
9. Zuli – Everyday [EG]
10. Asifeh – Mazbalet Arqaam [PS]
11. Thoom – Re-Trace [LB]
12. Nadia Daou & Aya Metwalli – Saturnus [LB/EG]

Photo by Nour Raad

Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Radio Alhara // 19 October 2022

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Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Radio Alhara in Bethlehem, Palestine, with music from Lebanon, Egypt, and the USA.

  1. Heroes and Villains – Snake and feather [LB]
  2. Cosmic Analog Ensemble – S’aventurer [LB]
  3. Interbellum – Another day [LB]
  4. Préfaces [Charif Megarbane, Salim Naffah & Pascal Semerdjian] – Embarator [LB]
  5. The New Year – Snow [US]
  6. Kid Fourteen – Blood thick silence [LB]
  7. Toni Geitani – Raboukom [LB]
  8. Nadah el-Shazly – Afqid ad dakhira [EG]
  9. El Rass & Munma – Return of the penguin [LB]
  10. The Bunny Tylers – Hello your grace [LB]
  11. Oiseaux-Tempete & The Bunny Tylers – Little known ending fading away [LB/FR]
  12. Radwan Ghazi Moumneh – Ya dam’at al ‘ain [LB/CA]
  13. Tony Elieh & Sharif Sehnaoui – Woe to him [LB]