French musician Frédéric Nogray was the guest of Ruptures to present his live performance with Stéphane Rives in Beirut, scheduled to take place a couple of days later at Walimat Warde.
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Frederic Nogray part 1
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Frederic Nogray part 2
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ZEID & THE WINGS // Ruptured Session // 07 June 2010
Zeid Hamdan, the man behind Soapkills, New Government, and countless other Lebanese bands, was the guest of Ruptures to showcase his new project Zeid & The Wings. The band performed five songs in the studio of Radio Lebanon, and spoke at length about its numerous activities, including its appearance in the much-touted Shankaboot concert extravaganza.
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zeid and the wings 1
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zeid and the wings 2
Track listing:
Zeid & The Wings LIVE
Hiba
Soapkills (Mazzy Star cover, unreleased)
Kanjha Kora
The New Government (unreleased)
Zeid & The Wings LIVE *2
MIKE COOPER // 1st Ruptured Session // 21 May 2010
British guitar player MIKE COOPER has established himself in the past decade or so as an international musical explorer, performing and recording, solo and in a number of inspired groupings and a variety of genres. His roots and inspiration range freely through traditional country blues, folk, original songs, free improvisation, pop songs, exotica, electronic music, electro-acoustic music, and ‘sonic gestural’ playing. Mike Cooper was the guest of RUPTURES to talk about his two concerts in Beirut, on May 24 at EM Chill (along with Scrambled Eggs, Beirut’s punk/experimental rock musical activists), and on May 26 at Beirut Art Center. Cooper was accompanied in this interview by Lebanese musician Sharif Sehnaoui.
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Mike Cooper 21 May part 1
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Mike Cooper 21 May part 2
Track listing:
Mike Cooper
Steffan Basho-Junghans
Son House
Charley Patton
Jack Rose
MUNMA // Ruptured Session // 10 May 2010
One of the first and foremost Lebanese artists operating in the field of electronica today, JAWAD NAWFAL has held live appearances in Lebanon and France, and regularly collaborated with Lebanese electronic musicians (including TRASH INC and dubstep project INDEX/LEFT). He has released 3 albums of ambient electronic music between 2006 and 2008 on Lebanese label Incognito, under the name Munma. He was the guest of RUPTURES to present his 4th album “Previews & Premises”, a collection of tracks recorded by Nawfal between 2006 and 2010. Not exactly a compilation, not exactly a concept album either, this new release was accompanied by a live concert at The Basement, on May 14, which marked Munma’s first “solo” appearance on a Lebanese stage since 2007.
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Munma 10 May part 1
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Munma 10 May part 2
Track listing:
Munma
Ziad Moukarzel & Jawad Nawfal [Index/Left]
Jawad Nawfal & Jad Atoui
OSMAN ARABI // Ruptured Session // 07 May 2010
Lebanese musician Osman Arabi, one of the country’s most prolific talents in the genres of metal, dark/ritualistic ambient, drone, noise and power electronics, was the guest of Ruptures for an interview and live performance in the studio of Radio Lebanon.
Track listing:
Osman Arabi
Iron Maiden
Von
Kafan
Shamanic Death Trance
TASHWEESH // 1st Ruptured Session // 28 April 2010
Tashweesh, the duo of Basel Abbas (founder of Palestinian hip-hop collective Ramallah Underground) and Ruanne Abou Rahme, were interviewed by Ziad Nawfal and musician Tarek Atoui for Ruptures. Tashweesh were in Beirut to present their sound installation “Contingency”, as part of the 5th Home Works Cultural Forum.
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Basel Abbas part 1
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Basel Abbas part 2
Track listing:
Basel Abbas
Ramallah Underground
Tashweesh
Kronos Quartet
TAREK ATOUI // Ruptured Session #2 // 26 April 2010
Le musicien d’electro-acoustique libanais Tarek Atoui, en interview et performance live sur Ruptures 96.2FM.
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Tarek Atoui part 1
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Tarek Atoui part 2
Track listing:
John Oswald
Tarek Atoui – Undrum #1
Tarek Atoui – Undrum #2
Tarek Atoui – Undrum #3
RAYESS BEK // Ruptured Session // 19 Apr 2010
An interview and live performance by Lebanese hip-hop artist Wael Kodeih aka Rayess Bek, to mark the release of his third album L’Homme de Gauche / Khartech Aal Zaman.
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Rayess Bek part 1
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Rayess Bek part 2
Track listing:
Rayess Bek *2
Rocé
Big Red
Rayess Bek LIVE
Wax Tailor
Gnawa Diffusion
Rayess Bek LIVE
Rodolphe Burger feat. Rachid Taha
Rayess Bek
FRANZ HAUTZINGER & MAZEN KERBAJ // Ruptured Session // 05 April 2010
Lebanese musician Mazen Kerbaj and Austrian musician Franz Hautzinger held an impromptu live session in the studios of Radio Lebanon, on the occasion of Irtijal Festival‘s 10th anniversary.
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Track listing:
Franz Hautzinger’s Oriental Space
Mazen Kerbaj & Franz Hautzinger
Franz Hautzinger & Mazen Kerbaj LIVE
Tarek Atoui
Franz Hautzinger & Mazen Kerbaj LIVE
Scrambled Eggs (feat. Joseph Ghosn & Abdallah Ko)
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Ruptured News // UNTITLED TRACKS Book Publication // Amers Editions
UNTITLED TRACKS: On Alternative Music in Beirut
Photographs by Tanya Traboulsi
Edited by Ziad Nawfal and Ghalya Saadawi
Design by Youmna Habbouche
Published by Amers Editions, Beirut, Lebanon
Untitled Tracks: On Alternative Music in Beirut is a collection of texts and photos which begins to chart the manifold, mutating and increasingly visible alternative musical landscapes in Beirut. Through a generous series of photographs taken from Tanya Traboulsi’s ongoing project Music is Life, as well as reflective texts on topics such as the melancholy sound of Soapkills, the politics and relevance of noise, and the interference of genres, this publication investigates the resonances of music and noise in the organized chaos and politics of everyday life.
Contributions by Serge Abiaad, Seth Ayyaz, Rayya Badran, Charbel Haber, Nizar Mroueh, Ziad Nawfal, Ghalya Saadawi, Walid Sadek and Kaelen Wilson-Goldie.
Ruptured Music 