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(2011 end-of-year lists) – LILIANE CHLELA

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I asked some of my favorite musicians from Beirut and beyond, to tell me what their favorite records of 2011 were…

Liliane Chlela: producer, musician (Hezbel Taleta, The DnB Project)

1- Petrels: Haeligewielle
2- Explosions in the Sky: Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
3- Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones: Metamanoir
4- Tim Hecker: Ravedeath, 1972
5- The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble: From The Stairwell
6- Kangding Ray: OR
7- Lamb: 5 (Special Edition)
8- Deaf Center: Owl Splinters
9- Electoplasm Girls: TxN
10- The Hole Punch Generation: The Hole Punch Generation (OST)

(2011 end-of-year lists) – JAD ATOUI

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I asked some of my favorite musicians from Beirut and beyond, to tell me what their favorite records of 2011 were…

Jad Atoui: musician (Acousmatik System)

– Amon Tobin: ISAM
– igorrr: Nostril
– Enduser: Even Weight
– The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble: From The Stairwell
– Radiohead: The King Of Limbs
– Fever Ray: Fever Ray
– Deaf Center: Owl Splinters
– Bibio / Clark: Willenhall / Baskerville Grinch
– Flying Lotus: Cosmogramma
– Plaid: Scintilli

(2011 end-of-year lists) – EILEEN KHATCHADOURIAN

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I asked some of my favorite musicians from Beirut and beyond, to tell me what their favorite records of 2011 were…

Eileen Khatchadourian: musician, artist

– PJ Harvey: Let England Shake
– Tom Waits: Bad As Me
– Feist: Metals
– Beirut: The Rip Tide
– Zola Jesus: Vessel
– Anna Calvi: Anna Calvi
– Keren Ann: 101
– Brazzaville: Jet Lag Poetry
– Radiohead: The King Of Limbs
– Alabama Shakes: Alabama Shakes

(2011 end-of-year lists) – MIKE COOPER

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I asked some of my favorite musicians from Beirut and beyond, to tell me what their favorite records of 2011 were…

The wonderful Mike Cooper chose to share with me some of the travel music playing on his iPhone in the past year:

– Robert Pete Williams: Louisiana Blues
– Elliott Sharp: Live in Dachau
– John Zorn: Interzone
– Rova Saxophone Quartet: Electric Ascension
– Marc Ribot: Spiritual Unity
– Dele Abiodon: Time for JuJu Music
– John Zorn: IOA
– Elliott Sharp/Frances Marie Uiti: Live
– Fennesz: Black Sea
– Adrian Sherwood & Dub Syndicate

(2011 end-of-year lists) – PAED CONCA

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I asked some of my favorite musicians from Beirut and beyond, to tell me what their favorite records of 2011 were…

Improv & free jazz Swiss musician Paed Conca (AnArchy TV, Bushwac, The Incompetents, Porta Chiusa, Praed, Syg Baas, Under The Carpet…) opted instead for a list of his all-time favorites:

– Morton Feldman
– MF Doom
– Cheb Khaled
– Sardar Ali Takkar
– This Heat
– John Coltrane
– Eric Dolphy
– Dead Kennedys
– Hüsker Dü
– Saccharine Trust

(2011 end-of-year lists) – WAEL KODEIH

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I asked some of my favorite musicians from Beirut and beyond, to tell me what their favorite records of 2011 were…

In the case of hip-hop artist Wael Kodeih aka Rayess Bek, he preferred to send me a list of the albums he listened to the most in 2011, regardless of date of release, and even took the time to include YouTube links! Here goes:

1- Luther Allison – Album: Bad news is coming – Bad News is Coming

2- Ratatat – Album: Classic – Loud Pipes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iexoDhvwGbo

3- Wax Tailor – Album: Hope and Sorrow – The Games You Play
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6-pQSWjwqc

4- Alton Ellis – Album: Rude Boy compilation – Cry Tough
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3F1iWkHhLI

5- Roce – Album: Identité en crescendo  – Besoin D’oxygène
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qbjnwknKms

6- Kamilya Jubran – Ghareebah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idp6_QSH9q8&feature=related

7- Al Hadra Al Toonisya

8- Brassens РMourir Pour Des Id̩es
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-ZI28nbSDQ

9- Abdel Wahab РMin Gheir Leh (le mątre de tout les temps!!!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHl6Z0zXkaU

10- Imagination – Just An Illusion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnfHdZrmMAw

(2011 end-of-year lists) – MARC CODSI

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I asked some of my favorite musicians from Beirut and beyond, to tell me what their favorite records of 2011 were…

Marc Codsi: producer, musician (Zeid & The Wings, formerly with Scrambled Eggs, Lumi, The Incompetents…)

– James Blake: Self-titled
– Camille: Ilo Veyou
– Radiohead: The King Of Limbs
– M83: Saturdays=Youth
– Tuneyards: Whokill
– Nicolas Jaar: Space Is The Only Noise
– Amon Tobin: ISAM

(2011 end-of-year lists) – CHRISTOPHE KATRIB

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I asked some of my favorite musicians from Beirut and beyond, to tell me what their favorite records of 2011 were…

Christophe Katrib: musician (Cristobal), multimedia artist, photographer

– Bon Iver: Self-titled
– Joan as Police Woman: The Deep Field
– Class Actress: Rapprocher
– Florence + The Machine: Ceremonials
– James Blake: Self-titled
– J. Mascis: Several Shades Of Why
– Tom Waits: Bad As Me
– Beirut: The Rip Tide
РBj̦rk: Biophilia
– Feist: Metals
– Toro y Moi: Underneath The Pine

(2008 end-of-year lists) – ZEID HAMDAN

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I asked the main actors of this here blog (mostly musicians, of course, but also friends, family, support-givers…) to provide me with a list (5 to 20 albums) of their favorite records of the year.

The results are slowly coming in. There are surprises, resemblances, similarities, incongruous choices… I’ve left the responses intact, exactly as I received them, along with my friends’ comments. So here goes:

Zeid Hamdan: musician (Soapkills, New Government, Control Z, 3Arab), producer, promoter

“for sure !!!!
they were not released in 2008 but that’s what i’ve been mostly listening to this year not in order of preference:”

CD 1 Bassekou Kouyate  segu blue
CD 2 Radio head in rainbows
CD 3 Lumi two tears in water
CD 4 Portishead (the latest)
CD 5 Cedric Im Brooks And The Light Of Saba
CD 6 jon kennedy ( mostly to his myspace , he has no cd s here..)


(2008 end-of-year lists) – CHRISTOPHE KATRIB

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I asked the main actors of this here blog (mostly musicians, of course, but also friends, family, support-givers…) to provide me with a list (5 to 20 albums) of their favorite records of the year.

The results are slowly coming in. There are surprises, resemblances, similarities, incongruous choices… I’ve left the responses intact, exactly as I received them, along with my friends’ comments. So here goes:

Christophe Katrib: DJ, musician (Cristobal), photographer

“Although I haven’t purchased all the music I would have wanted to this year, I will write a list based on what I’ve been able to listen to, in and out, up and down, a couple might be from 2007 though… here it goes:”

– Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever ago
– Ratatat: LP3
– Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
– Passion Pit: Chunk of Change (EP)
– Elbow: The seldom seen kid
– Yeasayer: All hour cymbals
– Band of Horses: Cease to begin
– The Helio Sequence: Keep your eyes ahead
– TV on the Radio: dear science
– Okkervil River: The Stand Ins
– Destroyer: Trouble in Dreams