Lebanese Indie Music Label // Promoter & Distributor // Radio Show
The world of Lebanese-Canadian rock quartet LAZZY LUNG is an intriguing and wonderful one, indeed. The band took Radio Lebanon by storm on October 11, and spoke at length about the recording of its first album, “Strange Places”. Singer & guitar player Allan Chaaraoui, guitarist Patrick Hanna and percussionist Hadi Oueini (bass player Imad Jawad was missing in action that night) also performed several songs from “Strange Places”, live in Radio Lebanon’s studio.
Lebanese producer & musician Radwan Ghazi Moumneh was the guest of Ruptures on September 20, 2010, for an enlightening interview and terribly enjoyable live performance. Moumneh is a man of many talents, producing for the likes of A Silver Mt Zion, Clues and Eric Chenaux, performing under the name Jerusalem In My Heart, and of course holding the fort at Thee Mighty Hotel2Tango, a renowned 24-track analogue studio situated in Montréal, Québec.
Listen:
Radwan Moumneh 1
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Radwan Moumneh 2
Track listing:
Les Momies de Palerme
Eric Chenaux
The Hidden Words
Jimmy Hunt
Khodr el Nasser
Lebanese musician Marc Codsi (Zeid & The Wings, The Incompetents, Lumi, ex-Scrambled Eggs) caught on Ruptures for an interview and improvised live performance. Among the tracks he selected, a new exclusive track from his electro-rock duo Lumi.
Track listing:
Faded Postcard
Scrambled Eggs
Lumi
Lumi (unreleased)
Marc Codsi LIVE
RGB
Zeid & The Wings
My Bloody Valentine
Jacques Brel
Swiss musician PAED CONCA was the guest of Ruptures for an interview + exclusive live performance. He presented an overview on his solo work, as well as his collaborations with Lebanese musicians Raed Yassin (as PRAED) and Tarek Atoui.
Listen:
Paed Conca 1
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Paed Conca 2
Track listing:
Paed Conca, Cynthia Zaven, Axel Dorner & Sabina Meyer (live at Irtijal)
Paed Conca, Tarek Atoui & Uriel Barthelemy (live at Tunefork)
Syg Baas
Paed Conca
Bushwac
Praed
Electronic musicians Faysal Bibi and Sary Moussa, the mighty duo known as Okydoky & Radiokvm, were the guests of RUPTURES for an exclusive interview and live performance, following their appearance at Lebanese electronic festival Mad Parade II. For this Ruptured Session, Okydoky & Radiokvm momentarily suspended their habit of performing together, and played one piece each.
Listen:
okidoki kvm 1
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okidoki kvm 2
Track listing:
Okydoky & Radiokvm (live at Mad Parade II)
Nine Inch Nails
Benga
Horse The Band
Squarepusher
Secret Chiefs 3
Mr. Bungle
Ametsub
A couple of days following their outstanding appearance at electronic music festival Mad Parade II, breakcore/drum’n’bass musician ENDUSER and electronic producer/label owner NICOLAS CHEVREUX (Ad Nauseam Records) were the guests of RUPTURES for an exclusive interview and live performance.
Track listing:
ENDUSER
CDATAKILL
HECQ
ROEL FUNCKEN
MOTHBOY
Lebanese dubstep duo INDEX/LEFT (Ziad Moukarzel & Jawad Nawfal) were the guests of RUPTURES to present a selection of new tracks recorded exclusively for their BASEMENT concert of July 16. And by the same token, the two hyperactive boys offered Ruptures’ audience an overview of the Dubstep genre, from its early beginnings to the present day.
Listen:
Index Left part 1
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Index Left part 2
Track listing:
Ramadanman
Ziad Moukarzel & Jawad Nawfal [Index/Left]
King Midas Sound
Quanta 330
Kode9
Martyn
Headhunter
Zomby
Modeselektor (feat. Thom Yorke)
Bloc Party (Burial remix)
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.
Listen:
Frederic Nogray part 1
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Frederic Nogray part 2
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.
Listen:
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
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.
Listen:
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
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