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Palestinian trio TASHWEESH (Basel Abbas, Ruanne Abou-Rahme & boikutt) spent two weeks in Beirut in October 2011, during which they held no less than four performances (2 for Tashweesh, organized by Ruptured, and 2 for boikutt). They were the guests of Ruptures for an interview & live performance, during which they were accompanied by American-born, Lebanon-based journalist Jackson Allers.
Listen:
Tashweesh (part 1)
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Tashweesh (part 2)
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
Lebanese electronic musician Liliane Chlela was the guest of Ruptures for a superb live performance and interview covering her numerous musical activities.
Listen:
liliane chlela part 1 + liliane chlela part 2
[By Ziad Nawfal]
In June 2011, my musician and writer friend Joseph Ghosn spent a few days in Beirut. We met on a couple of occasions, spoke about the abandoned grand piano in his neighbor’s house in the Lebanese mountains, and the CD compilation I was planning to release later in August, which included a track of his recorded for Ruptures. He also gave me this tape. “You’re the one to get it,” he said. Joe has a fetish for tapes, and he knows I do too. “What is it,” I exclaimed, trying to refrain my enthusiasm. “Oh, just a little thing Charbel and I recorded in one week, a few years back. Listen to it.”
I have listened to it many times since then. Between Birthdays consists of one elongated drone, a musical dialogue between Ghosn and guitar player-extraordinaire Charbel Haber, incorporating fuzzy swathes of guitar and discreet layers of glitchy synthesizers. It’s difficult to tell who’s doing what. The piece meanders wonderfully, veers from instrumental post-rock to ambient electronica, recalls Oneohtrix Point Never on some occasions, opts for pure noise on other occasions… A shadowy voice speaks a few detached words, a synth line recalls Joseph Ghosn’s soundtrack for the film “Beyrouth”… And the drone fades into oblivion once, twice, before picking up again. The stuff that dreams are made of (for).
New York-based musician Robert Lowe, aka LICHENS, was in Beirut for a few days on the occasion of the Visiting Tarab project, a musical research initiative organized by electronic musician Tarek Atoui and Oriental music specialist Kamal Kassar. Ruptures was fortunate enough to catch Robert and Tarek on an all-too-rare night off, and the two men hopped over to the studios of Radio Lebanon for an interview and an absolutely enthralling live performance from Lichens.
Listen:
Ruptures w/ Lichens (part 1)
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Ruptures w/ Lichens (part 2)
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]
In June 2011, we recorded three music programs for very nice Italian online radio, Radio Papesse; the intent was for these 3 hours to represent an introduction to some of our favorite artists from Lebanon’s contemporary alternative music scene(s).
Here are the three programs again, with full track listing for each segment. Enjoy !
Part 1: Alternative Rock & Pop
• SOAPKILLS enta fen (2006)
• ZEID & THE WINGS hkini (2010)
• WHITE TREES the game of love (2008)
• INTENSIVE CARE another you (2009)
• THE INCOMPETENTS closing time (2010)
• ZIAD SAAD venus in pleurs (2008)
• HEROES & VILLAINS the last of the useful inventions (2008)
• MASHROU’ LEILA imbibillilah (Ruptured session, 2011)
• LAZZY LUNG rains in October (2010)
• NEW GOVERNMENT flaka (2007)
• SCRAMBLED EGGS bleeding nun (2006)
• LUMI face it out (2008)
Part 2: Hip Hop & Modern Folk
• RAYESS BEK choufo halon (2003)
• KITA’A BEIRUT bi siret al mousi2a (2002)
• RGB elhem (2008)
• KATIBE KHAMSEH ahla fik bil moukhayyamat (2008)
• FAREEQ EL ATRASH democrati (2006)
• NADINE KHOURI rouge [true love is gonna spill] (2010)
• EILEEN KHATCHADOURIAN (Ruptured session, 2011)
• CRISTOBAL I am a cloud (2007)
• SANDMOON hide away (2010)
• YOUMNA SABA hadiss bweib (2011)
Part 3: Electronic & Experimental Music
• TRASH INC stratus (2009)
• MUNMA & TRASH INC night walker pt.2 (2009)
• INDEX/LEFT new dawn (2010)
• MUNMA bits and dust (2010)
• JAD ATOUI code breaker (2010)
• MORPHOSIS androids among us (2011)
• OKYDOKY & RADIO KVM ein souda (2010)
• TAREK ATOUI un-drum #3 [early version] (2009)
• PRAED the suspect (2011)
• SCRAMBLED EGGS & FRIENDS track #4 (2010)
• JOSEPH GHOSN drone 1 (2008)
• SHARIF SEHNAOUI trane (2010)
The Ruptured Sessions Volume 3 is a CD compilation gathering some of Beirut’s most talented pop, rock and funk musicians, with tracks recorded live in the studios of Radio Lebanon 96.2FM. It was released on June 8, 2011.
This compilation features exclusive tracks by:
Fareeq el Atrash
Intensive Care
Eileen Khatchadourian
Lazzy Lung
Mashrou’ Leila
Sandmoon
White Trees
Hatem Imam and Omar Khouri are the creative masterminds behind Lebanese comics publication Al Samandal. Much to our delighted surprise, they also happen to possess a musical partnership that goes under the delightful name of ‘Al Marmoot‘. Animal names, graphic design, and space rock were on the menu of this highly unusual edition of Ruptures.
Listen:
Al Marmoot part 1
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Al Marmoot part 2
Lebanese pop band Adonis, interviewed and captured live on Ruptures, a few days prior to the release of their first album, Daw el Baladiyyeh.
Listen:
Adonis (part 1)
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Adonis (part 2)
Ruptured Music 