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(2021 end-of-year lists) – POMME ROUGE

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It’s been a while (five good years actually) since we’ve done this, and so we’ve gone ahead and asked the musicians whom we worked with this year in some respect or other, to tell us about their favorite albums of 2021.

JOY MOUGHANNI & ALEX CHAHINE [POMME ROUGE]

– Fadi Mohem & Rødhåd: “210407” from WSNWG008
– FJAAK & Tobi Neumann: “F-Zero” from Various Artists: Miss Kittin / Justice Mirabal / FJAAK & Tobi Neumann
– Shabazz Palaces: “20 Gear Science” from 20 Gear Science
– SUUNS: “Witness Protection” from The Witness
– Andy Stott: “Answers” from Never the Right Time
– Overkissed: “Wet” from Porn Cuts EP
– Versalife: “Cone of Silence” from Shape Shifter 2 EP
– Tim Reaper & Kloke: “Tensity” from Tunnelvision
– Alex Ranerro: “Terrace” from Various Artists: HDZ12 EP
– Gremlinz & Jesta: “Albatross” from UVB76​-​021

(2021 end-of-year lists) – JAD ATOUI

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It’s been a while (five good years actually) since we’ve done this, and so we’ve gone ahead and asked the musicians whom we worked with this year in some respect or other, to tell us about their favorite albums of 2021.

JAD ATOUI

– Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra: Promises
– Thomas Ankersmit: Perceptual Geography
– Anthony Sahyoun: Proof by Infinite Descent
– Two or the Dragon: Dance Grooves for The Weary
– Jerusalem In My Heart: Qalaq
– Chuck Bettis: Blood Activation
– Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe: Candyman (Original Soundtrack)
– Jan Jelinek: The Raw and the Cooked
– Maurice Louca: Sa’et el Hazz
– Pavel Milyakov & Bendik Giske: Untitled

(2021 end-of-year lists) – JANA SALEH

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It’s been a while (five good years actually) since we’ve done this, and so we’ve gone ahead and asked the musicians whom we worked with this year in some respect or other, to tell us about their favorite albums of 2021.

JANA SALEH

– Senyawa: Alkisah
– Liliane Chlela: Safala
– Jerusalem In My Heart: Qalaq
– Anthony Sahyoun: Proof by Infinite Descent
– Various Artists: Istimrar Phase 1
– Postcards: After the Fire, Before the End
– Prefaces: Hippodrome

(2021 end-of-year lists) – STEPHANIE MERCHAK

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It’s been a while (five good years actually) since we’ve done this, and so we’ve gone ahead and asked the musicians whom we worked with this year in some respect or other, to tell us about their favorite albums of 2021.

STEPHANIE MERCHAK

– Scanner: Wing Pinger
– Patrick R. Pärk: Sacred Winged Door
– Upside T-Rex Music: TwoDots Volume 7 (Original Soundtrack)
– Dream Theater: A View from The Top of The World
– Myéline: Tiny Windows
– Memory Scale: Soft Power
– Nils Petter Molvær: Stitches
– Emika & Paul Frick: In Parallel
– 2404R: False LP
– Hainbach: Schwebungssummer

(2021 end-of-year lists) – ANTHONY SAHYOUN

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It’s been a while (five good years actually) since we’ve done this, and so we’ve gone ahead and asked the musicians whom we worked with this year in some respect or other, to tell us about their favorite albums of 2021.

ANTHONY SAHYOUN

– Maurice Louca: Sa’et el Hazz
– Space Afrika: Honest Labour
– Postcards: After the Fire, Before the End
– Two or the Dragon: Dance Grooves for The Weary
– Jonny Greenwood: Spencer (Original Soundtrack)
– Squid: Bright Green Field
– aya: im hole
– Jessica Moss: Phosphenes
– Aldo Clementi: Canoni Circolari
– William Fields: Fluidity 

(2021 end-of-year lists) – FADI TABBAL

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It’s been a while (five good years actually) since we’ve done this, and so we’ve gone ahead and asked the musicians whom we worked with this year in some respect or other, to tell us about their favorite albums of 2021.

FADI TABBAL

– Grouper: Shade
– Dolphin Midwives: Body of Water
– Low: HEY WHAT
– Postcards: After the Fire, Before the End
– Kinematik: Ensemble 1: Al Jadi
– Anthony Sahyoun: Proof by Infinite Descent
– Jessica Moss: Phosphenes
– Olivia Block: Innocent Passage in The Territorial Sea
– Squid: Bright Green Field
– Benoit Pioulard: Bloodless

(2021 end-of-year lists) – POSTCARDS

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It’s been a while (five good years actually) since we’ve done this, and so we’ve gone ahead and asked the musicians whom we worked with this year in some respect or other, to tell us about their favorite albums of 2021.

POSTCARDS 

– Anthony Sahyoun: Proof Of Infinite Descent
– Kinematik: Ensemble 1: Al Jadi
– Juana Molina: Segundo (21st Anniversary)
– Dolphin Midwives: Body of Water
– Beach House: Once Twice Melody
– Grouper: Shade
– Jessica Moss: Phosphenes
– Ben Shemie: 303 Diary
– Squid: Bright Green Field
– Low: HEY WHAT

Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Radio Ma3azef – Jerusalem In My Heart Edition // 08 December 2021

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Canadian indie label Constellation and Ma3azef resident Ziad Nawfal join forces to curate a 60mn mix of music based on and around Lebanese/Canadian duo Jerusalem In My Heart‘s album “Qalaq”, released in October 2021. Featuring several cuts from the album, as well as selected tracks from its outstanding list of contributors.

1. Jerusalem In My Heart – Abyad Barraq
2. Tim Hecker – Acephale
3. Le Révélateur (Roger Tellier-Craig & Sabrina Ratté) – Afterimage Selves
4. Pacha (Pierre-Guy Blanchard) – Ankara
5. Jerusalem In My Heart – Bein Ithnein
6. Moor Mother – Big Crime
7. Lucrecia Dalt – Disuelta
8. Body Meπa (Greg Fox / Sasha Frere-Jones / Melvin Gibbs / Grey McMurray) – Bullitt
9. Rabih Beaini – Light Within a Light
10. OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE – Out of Sight
11. “A” Trio (Mazen Kerbaj / Sharif Sehnaoui / Raed Yassin) – Over
12. Radwan Ghazi Moumneh – Qaluli (They Told Me)
13. Jerusalem In My Heart – Tanto
14. Alanis Obomsawin – Odana

Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Movement Radio // 07 December 2021

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Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Movement Radio in Athens, featuring music from Lebanon, Iran, Colombia, Canada, France, the USA and the UK. This mix was commissioned and produced by Onassis Cultural Center, and presented for the first time in the frame of MOVEMENT RADIO.

1. Jerusalem In My Heart – Abyad Barraq (feat. Greg Fox)
2. Pacha – Ankara
3. Saint Abdullah – As Gently as The Steps of Death (feat. Moor Mother)
4. Moor Mother – Big Crime
5. Jessica Moss – Distortion Harbour
6. Jerusalem In My Heart – Tanto (feat. Lucrecia Dalt)
7. Oiseaux-Tempête – Out of Sight
8. Frederic D. Oberland – À Notre Nuit
9. “A” Trio – Over
10. Saint Abdullah – The Birds Discuss the Journey (feat. John Butcher)
11. Jessica Moss – Distortion Harbour

Photo by Andrew Neerman

Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Radio Alhara – Beacon Sound Takeover // 17 November 2021

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Ziad Nawfal’s November 2021 mix for Radio Alhara in Bethlehem featured a guest takeover from Beacon Sound’s ANDREW NEERMAN:

“In anticipation of the release of Proof By Infinite Descent, Anthony Sahyoun’s debut album on Ruptured and Beacon Sound, I’ve taken over Ziad Nawfal’s hour on Radio Alhara today and assembled this unavoidably melancholic, yet occasionally buoyant, mix of friends and fellow travelers, as well as a few of my favorite tracks from the album. Hope you enjoy – Andrew”

1. Sary Moussa – In Praise Of Shadows
2. Massive Attack – Fatalism (Sakamoto/Takahashi Remix)
3. Anthony Sahyoun – The New World
4. Fadi Tabbal and Julia Sabra – Roots
5. William Basinski – O, My Daughter, O, My Sorrow
6. Burial – Endorphin
7. Fever Ray – Dry And Dusty
8. Tim Hecker – Castrati Stack
9. Aya Metwalli – Matkhafsh Menni
10. Muqata’a – Ma Wara’
11. Anthony Sahyoun – Jesuit Literature Drowning In The Mediterranean
12. Gabriel Saloman – Adhere Pt 3
13. Anthony Sahyoun – Irhamna (Amulets Remix)
14. Beacon Sound Choir – Fortunate Ones