(2011 end-of-year lists) – NADINE KHOURI

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

Nadine Khouri (musician):

– Florian Lunaire: Spring/Summer
– PJ Harvey: Let England Shake
– Nils Frahm: Felt
– Tom Waits: Bad As Me
– Matana Roberts: COIN COIN Chapter 1 / Gens de Couleur Libre
– A Winged Victory For The Sullen: Self-titled
– Feist: Metals
– James Blake: Self-titled
– Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat: Everything’s Getting Older
– St Vincent: Strange Mercy

(2011 end-of-year lists) – RADWAN GHAZI MOUMNEH

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

Radwan Ghazi Moumneh: producer, sound engineer (Hotel2Tango), musician (Jerusalem In My Heart, Land Of Kush, Pas Chic Chic)

– خليل غمكين مواويل سورية كردية cassette
– Khansahib Abdul Karim Khan “Self-titled” lp
– Arlt “La Langue” only cd sadly
– Marika Papagika “The Further The Flame, The Worse It Burns Me” lp
– Le Révélateur “Fictions” lp
– الحضرمي الميداح  كلمات  ” 7
– Magneticring “City” cassette
– V/A “Music For Saharan Cellphones” download
– Matana Roberts “COIN COIN Chapter 1 / Gens de Couleur Libre” dbl 10″
– Jean-Claude Vannier “Electro Rapide” lp

(2011 end-of-year lists) – OSMAN ARABI

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

Osman Arabi: musician (20.SV, Kafan, Seeker, The Ritual Inclusion of Code, Shamanic Death Trance, Veinen, Xardas)

01 – Ulcerate: The Destroyers Of All
02 – The Axis of Perdition: Tenements (Of The Anointed Flesh)
03 – Earth: Angels of Darkness, Demons Of Light I
04 – Oranssi Pazuzu: Kosmonument
05 – Ride for Revenge: Under The Eye
06 – Vildhjarta: Masstaden
07 – Morbid Angel: Illud Divinum Insanus
08 – Mastodon: The Hunter
09 – Craft: Void
10 – Burzum: Fallen

(2011 end-of-year lists) – JAWAD NAWFAL

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

Jawad Nawfal: producer, sound artist, musician (Munma, formerly with Index/Left, AEX, Ae_Quo…)

– Amon Tobin: ISAM (Ninja Tune)
– Culprate:Colours (Gradient Audio)
– Kuedo: Videowave EP (Planet Mu)
– Vessel: Wax Dance EP (A Future Without)
– 2562: Fever (Doubt Records)
– Zomby: Nothing (4AD)
– Loops Haunt: Ark EP (Black Acre)
– iTAL tEK: Whip It Up EP (Atom River)
– Semiomine: From Memory (Ad Noiseam)
– The Third Eye Foundation: The Dark (Ici D’ailleurs)

(2011 end-of-year lists) – ZIAD MOUKARZEL

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

Ziad Moukarzel: musician (Mocques, Anton Stator, formerly with Index/Left)

– Radiohead: TKOL Remixes 1234567
– Modeselektor: Monkey Town
– Hessle Audio Presents: 116 & Rising
– Martyn: Ghost People
– Matthew David: International EP
– Rustie: Glass Swords
– Various Artists: Let The Children Techno (Ed Banger Records)
– Beastie Boys: Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win
– Amon Tobin: ISAM
– Enduser: Even Weight

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

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

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

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

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

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