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Ruptured News // January 2013
The Incompetents‘ latest full-length CD, “Of Narcissism… And Other Minor Differences”, released in November 2012, is now available for sale in Lebanon at the following spots:
– Beirut Art Center (Sin el Fil)
– Dar Bookstore (Hamra)
– Chico Video (Hamra)
– Music Now (Hamra)
The following 2 CDs, which were released by the Berlin-based Syrphe label in the summer of 2012:
– Infinite Moment Of Composure (Jawad Nawfal & Liliane Chlela): Turbulence
– Tasjiil Moujahed (Munma & Kirdec): Self-titled
… are now available for sale in Lebanon at Beirut Art Center (Sin el Fil) and Music Now (Hamra)
Very nice artworks by Liliane Chlela and Maria Kassab, too!
There are only 10 copies remaining of the CD compilation The Ruptured Sessions volume 3, released in the summer of 2010, out of an initial run of 500.
This compilation features exclusive radio versions, recorded during the Ruptures program on Radio Lebanon 96.2FM, of tracks by Intensive Care (now Wake Island), Eileen Khatchadourian, Mashrou’ Leila, and others… These last 10 copies are found at Beirut Art Center (Sin el Fil, 5 copies) and Music Now (Hamra, 5 copies)… There will be no reprint — hurry up and get yours 🙂
Ruptured Live // MAYA CHAMI // Of Men, Champagne And Victory Aside
Ruptured presents
Of Men, Champagne and Victory Aside
Two live audio-visual presentations by Maya CHAMI
With music by Fadi TABBAL
Presentation #1
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On Sunday 16 December 2012, at 6.30pm
At ACT – Théâtre Monnot, Ashrafieh, Beirut
For information, call 01-202422 between 3&7pm [except Mondays]
Presentation #2
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On Thursday 20 December 2012, at 7.30pm
At Django Pub, Rue du Liban, Gemmayzeh
[Followed by DJ sets from Serge Yared & Ziad Nawfal]
For information, call 01-567535 or 03-157535
ABOUT THE PROJECT
“Of Men, Champagne and Victory Aside” consists of an audio-visual presentation, merging laptop-generated visuals and live music. It is a playful examination into the theme of the ‘victory sign’ in the Arab world, from the 1980’s to the present.
After examining archive material, endless possibilities of animating, overlaying and deconstructing of audio-visual clips are generated into a new moving image, liberated from the ‘flow’ of the media.
The outcome is a live audio-visual presentation based on a creation of remixed visuals and audio soundtracks.
[This event is produced by AFAC, in collaboration with RUPTURED and TUNEFORK]
Ruptured Live // UNDER THE CARPET Launch Concert // Metro al Madina
UNDER THE CARPET is the trio of Paed CONCA (Switzerland), Stéphane RIVES (France) and Fadi TABBAL (Lebanon).
UNDER THE CARPET is a musical trio based in Beirut, formed in 2011 by Swiss musician Paed Conca, French musician Stéphane Rives, and Lebanese musician Fadi Tabbal.
PAED CONCA is an experienced and seasoned musician in the fields of experimental music, improvised music and electronica. He has also written music for theatre, dance, film productions and small ensembles, and has toured extensively in Europe, Russia, Japan and Lebanon, with a vast array of international musicians, for the past 20 years.
PAED CONCA is an experienced and seasoned musician in the fields of experimental music, improvised music and electronica. He has also written music for theatre, dance, film productions and small ensembles, and has toured extensively in Europe, Russia, Japan and Lebanon, with a vast array of international musicians, for the past 20 years.
STÉPHANE RIVES comes from the world of free jazz and improvised music, and has contributed on a regular basis to Lebanon’s Festival of improvised music, Irtijal, since its inception in the year 2001. He has written music for theatre, dance and film, and has toured extensively in Europe.
FADI TABBAL is one of the most active musicians in Beirut’s alternative rock & pop scene, as a member of several groups and projects, and as the owner and sound engineer of the famed Tunefork Recording Studios.
Ruptured Live // HEROES & VILLAINS + COSMIC ANALOG ENSEMBLE // Django
Featuring Charif MEGARBANE & Dominique SALAMEH
Playing multiple acoustic & electronic instruments
Accompanied by several surprise guests
Ruptured News // April-May 2012
Ruptured Live // EL RASS & MUNMA // Metro al Madina
RUPTURED presents
The CD Launch & Live Premiere of
KACHF EL MAHJOUB [UNVEILING THE HIDDEN]
A musical collaboration between
EL RASS (Mazen el Sayed, words & vocals)
& MUNMA (Jawad Nawfal, beats & electronics)
ABOUT THE CD
“Kachf el Mahjoub / Unveiling the hidden” is a musical collaboration between Lebanese poet and musician Mazen el Sayed, otherwise known as El Rass (The Head), and Lebanese electronica artist Jawad Nawfal aka Munma. El Sayed is a prolific writer and musician, at ease with a variety of instruments, while Nawfal has previously released an impressive number of albums and EPs, exploring downtempo electronica and ambient dubstep. The collision of harsh beats and brazen, slammed vocals works wonders on Unveiling the Hidden, a truly outstanding collaboration between Nawfal’s Munma project and Mazen el Sayed’s El Rass persona, produced and released by independent Lebanese label Ruptured.
Notorious for his masterful flow in the classical Arabic language, quite an uncommon phenomenon in Lebanon’s exuberant rap scene, El Rass is impressive on Unveiling the Hidden, with lyrics tackling both social and political sensitive subjects. Munma, on the other hand, creates a sound-world perfectly fitting El Rass’s agitated discourse, alternating between broken beats, elaborate percussion, and ambient layers of synths. At times reminiscent of mutant hiphop outfit Shabazz Palaces, at others of the collaboration between dubstep producer Kode9 and vocalist The SpaceApe, this album is an uncanny meeting of Arabic hip-hop and electronica, and represents an exceptional event in the realm of contemporary Lebanese alternative music.
LISTEN: https://soundcloud.com/el-rass-the-head/borkan-beirut
Ruptured Live // C-DRIK & Friends // EM Chill
Belgian electronic musician C-DRIK, live at EM Chill [Mar Mikhael, Beirut]
accompanied by several talented Lebanese electronicians
CEDRIK FERMONT (aka C-drík Fermont, C-drík, Cdrk, Kirdec, Y-drík, M-drík, F-drík and many other “-drík”) is a multifaceted vegan artist, academically trained musician, DJ, singer, composer and drummer.
Of Greek, Zairian and Belgian descent, born in Zaire (RDC), he lived in Belgium, where he studied under the guidance of electro-acoustic composer Annette Van de Gorne, before relocating to the Netherlands, then to Germany in 2010. C-drík started his first electronic project in 1989, and juggles between different musical genres, including electronica, noise, breakcore, digital punk, electro-acoustic, industrial, ambient, free jazz, hip hop, etc. He is also a label manager and promoter, producing his own projects and those of similarly-minded experimental artists, mostly from Asia and Africa.
Ruptured Live // TASHWEESH // Live in Beirut
RUPTURED presents TASHWEESH Live in Beirut
Basel Abbas, Ruanne Abou-Rahme and boikutt from Palestinian audio-visual collective Tashweesh will be performing in Beirut for the 1st time, on two separate dates:
Wednesday 28 September 2011
BEIRUT ART CENTER
Jisr el Wati, off Corniche an Nahr
Wednesday 5 October 2011
THE CAVE
Saifi Urban Gardens,
Gemmayzeh, Pasteur street
Featuring additional live acts
MUNMA (Lb)
Jad ATOUI (Lb)
Tashweesh is an audio-visual performance group from Ramallah, Palestine, which brings together installation artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme and musician boikutt, in a joint performance that combines sound, music and image. The result is an exploration of the collision between sound and video field recordings, archive material, vocals, breaks and soundscapes.
Performing in Beirut for the first time, Tashweesh will present a premiere of their most recent set, following 2010’s performances in venues such as CCA (Glasgow), SouthBank Centre (London), Danish Film Institute (Copenhagen), Images Festival (Copenhagen) and Re:View (Katowice).
“Tashweesh is the latest ‘voice’ to emerge from Palestine, representing a new generation of artists who are not only cutting edge but blurring the edges between artists disciplines, social action and geographical boundaries” – Aaron Cezar, Director of the Delfina Foundation, London
Ruptured Live // The Ruptured Sessions Vol.4 Launch Concert // Beirut Art Center
Two days, two live events, featuring both Lebanese and international musicians from the genres of free jazz, improv and electronica… Seeing the day on Day 2 is a new CD release from Ruptured, compiling electronic performances recorded live in the Ruptures radio program, and featuring exclusive tracks by Joseph Ghosn, Munma and Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, among others.
DAY 1:
xxx ENSEMBLE 16.08 xxx
Tuesday 16 August, 8pm
at Masrah Beirut, Ain el Mreisseh
> A live performance by:
– Tarek ATOUI (Lb)
– Uriel BARTHELEMI (Fr)
– Omar DEWACHI (Iq)
– Tony ELIEH (Lb)
– Charbel HABER (Lb)
– Mazen KERBAJ (Lb)
– Lukas LIGETI (At)
– Robert LOWE aka Lichens (USA)
– Sharif SEHNAOUI (Lb)
– Raed YASSIN (Lb)
– Cynthia ZAVEN (Lb)
DAY 2:
xxx CD launch of The RUPTURED SESSIONS, vol.4 xxx
Wednesday 24 August, 8pm
at Beirut Art Center, Jisr el Wati
> Live performances by:
MUNMA (Lb)
OKYDOKY (Lb)
UNDER THE CARPET
– Paed CONCA (Sw)
– Stéphane RIVES (Fr)
– Fadi TABBAL (Lb)
> DJ set by:
Tarek ATOUI (Lb)
[A tribute to MUSLIMGAUZE]
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