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Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Movement Radio // 04 April 2023

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Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Movement Radio in Athens, featuring music from Lebanon, Egypt, Belgium and Indonesia. This mix was commissioned and produced by Onassis Cultural Center, and presented for the first time in the frame of MOVEMENT RADIO.

  1. Mayssa Jallad – Al Hisar December 8 [LB]
  2. Mayssa Jallad – Mudun [LB]
  3. Julia Sabra & Fadi Tabbal – In Our Garden [LB]
  4. Senyawa – Istana (Aya Metwalli Remix) [ID/EG]
  5. Mazen Kerbaj – The Acoustic Synthesizer [LB]
  6. Elyse Tabet with Pascal Semerdjian & Yara Asmar – Bright Bells [LB]
  7. Jawad Nawfal – Planned Obsolescence [LB]
  8. Cedrik Fermont – Bong-ot [BE]
  9. Tony Elieh – The Dark That Matters [LB]
  10. Kinematik – Dinosorat Tahtafil Bel Kuwaikeb (Asteroid!) [LB]
  11. Calamita – The Industry [LB]
  12. Two or The Dragon – Dance Grooves for The Weary (Part II) [LB]

Ruptured Album Release // MAYSSA JALLAD // Marjaa: The Battle Of The Hotels

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Released March 3rd, 2023:
Lebanese singer/songwriter Mayssa Jallad’s first solo album. A poetic reflection on Beirut’s War of the Hotels, one of the bloodiest events of Lebanon’s Civil War..

“Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels” is a concept album born of the idea of merging singer/songwriter Mayssa Jallad’s two vocations: music and urban research/architectural history. Written in collaboration with producer Fadi Tabbal, the music builds upon Tabbal’s spatial approach to sound and Jallad’s research on Beirut’s Hotel District.
The album is a reference to Jallad’s Historic Preservation master’s  thesis, in which she detailed the history of the “Battle of the Hotels”, a 5-months battle that took place in Beirut at the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War, from October 22nd, 1975 to March 29th, 1976.
Jallad saw architecture as a main protagonist of the battle, as she discovered it was the first high rise urban battle in the world. The close of the battle resulted in the 15-year Green Line, an urban rift which split Beirut into “East and West”, restricting movement and communication and creating a violent divide that still resonates today.
“Marjaa” comprises two parts. Part A: Dahaliz, is a stroll in the city, where Jallad tries (and fails) to follow an old map. Musician Youmna Saba is a companion in this journey of remembering the once winding corridors (“Dahaliz”) of the city, destroyed by new developments since the 1960s. Empty skyscrapers propel her onto a past filled with the violence of snipers, and a present filled with the glamorous injustice of empty luxury real estate endorsed by powerful warlords-turned-politicians.
In Part B: Maaraka, Jallad inhabits the building of the Battle of the Hotels, as its events unfold. She calls the fighting militias the Blues and Reds, respectively the Lebanese Front (Christian Nationalists) and the Lebanese National Movement (Pro-Palestinian leftists), leveling the playing field, and drawing a map of the battle through songwriting. Sary Moussa produces the conclusion of the battle in “Holiday Inn (March 21 to 29)”, which ends with the ultimate severance of the city of Beirut.
The music caters to post-war youth who have never been taught this difficult history. Once we consider the “Battle of the Hotels” as our common heritage, it provides an opportunity to teach the value of civil peace. It is also a call to protest for the renewal, rather than the recycling of the political class that has once destroyed the country and holds us, to this day, hostage of its violence.

Featuring Youmna Saba, Marwan Tohme, Pascal Semerdjian, Julia Sabra, Farah Kaddour, Sary Moussa, Yara Asmar and Fadi Tabbal.

Out on March 03, 2023.

Listen/Order here

WATCH the video for Markaz Azraq (December 6).

READ Brad Rose’s interview with Mayssa Jallad in Foxy Digitalis.

READ Christina Hazboun’s album review in Bandcamp.

READ Maha El Nabawy’s album review in SceneNoise.

Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Movement Radio // 07 March 2023

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

  1. Marc Codsi – Back To the Silence [LB]
  2. xlmxkhfi – Black Beach [LB]
  3. Christine Ott – Burning [FR]
  4. NP – Coins With Memory [LB]
  5. Saint Abdullah – Eastoxication [IR]
  6. Deena Abdelwahed – Dîner [TN]
  7. Yara Asmar – fish can’t tie their shoelaces, silly [LB]
  8. Anthony Sahyoun – Heritage [LB]
  9. Daou – The Hill [LB]
  10. Pie Are Squared – I Can’t See A Thing [EG]
  11. The Afrorack – Last Modular [UG]
  12. Frédéric D. Oberland – Quatre Épaves d’Acier [FR]
  13. Ramallah Underground & Kronos Quartet – Tashweesh [US/PS]
  14. Naujawanan Baidar – Zanjeer [AF/US]
Photo by Georges Daou

Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Movement Radio // 07 February 2023

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Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Movement Radio in Athens, featuring music from Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Bahrain, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Yemen, Germany 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. 3PHAZ – Sharayet [EG]
2. SHKOON – Rima (feat. El Far3i) [SY/DE/PS]
3. ABADIR – Blame it on SUTRA [EG]
4. NANCY MOUNIR – Gannentini (feat. Zaki Murad) [EG]
5. NILÜFER ORMANLI – Art Of Dying [TR]
6. TEGH – Downfall II [IR]
7. JULIA SABRA & FADI TABBAL – Snakeskin [LB]
8. STARLIGHT ASSEMBLY – Facing The Waves (Julia Sabra & Fadi Tabbal Remix) [UK/LB]
9. ELYSE TABET WITH PASCAL SEMERDJIAN & YARA ASMAR – Bright Bells [LB]
10. HASAN HUJAIRI – Prelude For Orpheus [BH]
11. EL KHAT – Albat Alawi Op. 99 [YE]
12. CHARBEL HABER, JOSEPH GHOSN, FADI TABBAL – Tomorrow’s Marble Castles Will Reflect an Incandescent Light [LB]
13. CHARBEL HABER – So long lover [LB]
14. CENK ERGÜN – Amsterdam [TR]
15. EL RASS & MUNMA – Tkhayal (Radiokvm Remix) [LB]

Photo by Georges Daou

Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Movement Radio // 03 January 2023

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

1. SANDY CHAMOUN – Ahlam al khayal [LB]
2. BENNU [PIE ARE SQUARED & PYLON&ON&ON] – Asteroid Walk [EG]
3. 700 BLISS [DJ HARAM & MOOR MOTHER] – Basic [US/UK]
4. SAFA – Bel Abbes [LB]
5. POSTCARDS – Coins (with Sary Moussa) [LB]
6. TEDTEDTED – Dancerep [LB]
7. AZU TIWALINE – Deep Theko [TN]
8. MUQATA’A – Dijla Wal Fada’ [PS]
9. MUSLIMGAUZE – An End [UK]
10. MOHAMMAD REZA MORTAZAVI – Exploring [IR]
11. JULMUD – Fel Bo2s [PS]
12. TOUMBA – Floating on The Dead Sea [JO]
13. SOTE – Forced Absence [IR]
14. ASIFEH – Oxygen Deluxe [PS]

Photo by Georges Daou

Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Movement Radio // 06 December 2022

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Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Movement Radio in Athens, featuring music from Lebanon, Egypt, Belgium and Canada. 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 – Ana Lisan Wahad (feat. Farida Amadou & Pierre-Guy Blanchard) [LB/CA/BE]
  2. Abadir – Bass Belly [EG]
  3. TEDTEDTED – Calculators [LB]
  4. Liliane Chlela – Charr [LB]
  5. Rise 1969 – Floating Memory [LB]
  6. Etyen – Goodbye [LB]
  7. Sary Moussa – In Praise of Shadows [LB]
  8. Yara Asmar – it’s always october on sunday [LB]
  9. Elyse Tabet with Pascal Semerdjian & Yara Asmar – Low Toms [LB]
  10. Sandy Chamoun – Nas el Wahel [LB]
  11. Pie Are Squared – Oscillate Thrice [EG]
  12. Maurice Louca – Saet el Hazz (feat. “A” Trio) [EG/LB]
  13. Julia Sabra & Fadi Tabbal – Snakeskin [LB]
Photo by Georges Daou

Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Radio Alhara // 21 December 2022

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A Ziad Nawfal mix for Radio Alhara in Bethlehem, Palestine – showcasing all of Ruptured’s releases in 2022.
With music by Lebanese artists Fadi Tabbal, El Rass & Munma, Daou, Marc Codsi, Julia Sabra, Elyse Tabet, Pascal Semerdjian, and Yara Asmar.

1. Julia Sabra & Fadi Tabbal – All The Birds (from Snakeskin)
2. Marc Codsi – Back To The Silence (from The Silence Between The New World And The Aftermath)
3. Daou – Beginnings (from Sanctuary)
4. El Rass & Munma – Borkan Beirut (from Kachf El Mahjoub / 10th Anniversary Vinyl Reissue)
5. Elyse Tabet with Pascal Semerdjian & Yara Asmar – Bright Bells (from Low Toms Bright Bells and Darkest Spells)
6. Marc Codsi – Finding Home
7. Fadi Tabbal – Hotel Room
8. Daou – Odd Light
9. Elyse Tabet with Pascal Semerdjian & Yara Asmar – Low Toms
10. Marc Codsi – Hangar #12
11. El Rass & Munma – Min Tha2er
12. Elyse Tabet with Pascal Semerdjian & Yara Asmar – Low Toms Through the Paper Shredder
13. Julia Sabra & Fadi Tabbal – One By One
14. Daou – Sauldre
15. Fadi Tabbal – Snow Scene (with Ghassan Sahhab)
16. Julia Sabra & Fadi Tabbal – Snakeskin

(2022 end-of-year lists) – FADI TABBAL

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It is the most wonderful time of the year.
We asked some of Ruptured’s recent contributors and collaborators, to tell us about the records they listened to the most in 2022.
Fadi Tabbal’s solo album Music For The Lonely Vol.2 was released as a limited edition cassette by Ruptured in January. His duo with Julia Sabra, Snakeskin, was released by Ruptured and Beacon Sound as a limited edition vinyl album in October. 

FADI TABBAL

(2022 end-of-year lists) – ELYSE TABET

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It is the most wonderful time of the year.
We asked some of Ruptured’s recent contributors and collaborators, to tell us about the records they listened to the most in 2022.
Elyse Tabet’s album Low Toms Bright Bells and Darkest Spells, a collaboration with Pascal Semerdjian and Yara Asmar, was released by Ruptured in December. 

ELYSE TABET

(2022 end-of-year lists) – PASCAL SEMERDJIAN

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It is the most wonderful time of the year.
We asked some of Ruptured’s recent contributors and collaborators, to tell us about the records they listened to the most in 2022.
Pascal Semerdjian’s collaborative album with Elyse Tabet, Low Toms Bright Bells and Darkest Spells, was released by Ruptured in December. 

PASCAL SEMERDJIAN