A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal – this broadcast features a guest mix by London-based DJ & journalist SHANE WOOLMAN. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.
Shane works at The Wire magazine, hosts a bimonthly radio show, and DJs as part of The Wire Soundsystem.
Rahaf Shamaly “My Dear Sweet Country Gaza”
Michul Kuun ft Isiah Barr “Pay Me”
Lady Moon & The Eclipse “Le Petit Prince (Part 1)”
XTC “Making Plans For Nigel”
Om Unit “Acid Tempo (Tapes Remix)”
Cocteau Twins “From The Flagstones”
Mary Ocher ft Your Government “Sympathize”
Miss Red “Clouds”
Noémi Büchi “What If It Doesn’t Matter?”
Violinbwoy “Dub Of War”
Ana Lua Caiano “Mão Na Mão”
Brodinski & Deft “Delone”
Ghédalia Tazartès “Gospel”
Liliane Chlela “Did I Stutter”
Toya Delazy ft Ahadadream & Tash-LC “QOBA”
Praed “Rocket (Sarookh)”
Wolfram Spyra “60 Beats About Bush”
rouge-ah “Why So Angry? Why Not!?”
Billie Eilish “Oxytocin” (Acappella)
Traynor “Skyscraped (Tool Mix)”
Dasha Rush “100 Hearts”
Anunaku & DJ Plead “Haze”
Bakongo “Best Of Both”
El Kontessa “Bingo بينجو”
The Damned “Love Song”
Football Fan Chant (Dublin, 15 May 2024)
Ziad Nawfal’s monthly broadcast for Radio Alhara in Bethlehem, Palestine — playing Lebanese musician & producer Fadi Tabbal’s latest album in full, along with a selection of some of his recent production work.
Track List:
FADI TABBAL — I RECOGNIZE YOU FROM MY SKETCHES
1. (keep beating)
2. Absence or death
3. Oh Heart!
4. Oh heart, are you burning
5. All those nights
6. You were right
7. (keep pumping)
8. When we swam together
9. (keep thumping)
10. I am all that is left
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11. Snakeskin (Julia Sabra & Fadi Tabbal) – Snakeskin
12. Elyse Tabet – Sequel / live to tell (with Nadine Makarem)
13. Charbel Haber & Fadi Tabbal – La certitude de l’aube
14. Charbel Haber, Joseph Ghosn, Fadi Tabbal – In A Technicolor Dream, You and I Were Floating in The Caspian Sea
15. Mayssa Jallad – Holiday Inn March 21 to 29
16. Postcards – Coins (with Sary Moussa)
A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal – this broadcast features a guest mix by Lebanese musician and puppeteer YARA ASMAR. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.
Yara is a musician and puppeteer who lives in Beirut, Lebanon. She incorporates accordion and metallophone in her work.
純純 (SÛN-SÛN) 望春風 (Hoping for the Spring Breeze)
NANCY MOUNIR Matkhafsh Alayya
M. SAGE WITH THE SPINNAKER ENSEMBLE Harbor Dive
زكي ناصيف (ZAKI NASSIF) اعود اليك يا قريتى (A’oudou Ilayki Ya Karyati)
فيروز (FAIRUZ) يا ربوع بلادي (Ya Roubouaa Biladi)
-みかんむくっ(MIKAN MUKKU) Kan
ABUL3EES Ba7ibesh Astana بحبش أستنى
MARTINA TOPLEY-BIRD Sandpaper kisses
SLEEPSPENTT Full Thrust
HADY MOAMER Khaboot (Interlude)
HADI Kawa’ed
APHEX TWIN Kladfvgbung Micshk
FLOATING POINTS, PHAROAH SANDERS & THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Promises [Movement 2]
ALAN SPLET & DAVID LYNCH In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)
A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal – this broadcast features a guest mix by Lebanese musician, producer and studio owner FADI TABBAL. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.
Lebanese musician, producer and sound engineer Fadi Tabbal’s work consists of guitar pieces ranging from stripped acoustics to ambient and shoegazing-inspired treatments. Aside from his solo output and management of Tunefork Studios in Beirut, he is a full-time member of several Lebanese indie rock bands, including The Incompetents and The Bunny Tylers, as well as electronic duos Stress Distress and Snakeskin.
CEP Lilians Pavilion
KELLY MORAN Butterfly Phase
AMOR MUERE Shhhhh
YARA ASMAR It Is 5-00pm And Nothing Bad Has Happened To Us (Yet)
A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal – this broadcast features a guest mix by Lebanesemusician MAYSSA JALLAD. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.
Mayssa Jallad is a Beirut-based bilingual singer-songwriter, architectural researcher and teacher, born in 1990. Her work deals with the highly personal as well as the political, as with her first solo album “Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels”, which explores the histories of urban battles that occurred before she was born, during the Lebanese Civil War, through a collaborative musical and architectural lens.
DAKN & MUQATA’A Fi Mi’ad
SNAKESKIN All The Birds
MITSKI Heaven
YOUMNA SABA Ahad
FARAH KADDOUR Estehlāl
VAMPI & NADAH EL-SHAZLY Myst
RAHILL Tell Me
DRAGONCHILD Unicode 1200
MARC CODSI The Dance
DEENA ABDELWAHED Each Day
JENNY HVAL Year Of Love
SARY MOUSSA & CHARBEL HABER An Atom Of Your Love
NABIHAH IQBAL Dreamer
SANAM Shajar Al-Touti
CLAIRE DEAK Quarrel Of The Senses
MAYSSA JALLAD Haigazian (October 22)
Portrait of Mayssa taken in Beirut by Mohamad Al-Rifai
Following the release of her critically-acclaimed debut LP Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels in March 2023, Lebanese artist Mayssa Jallad returns with a set of EU/UK tour dates (including shows in London, Berlin and Brussels), as well as a stunning new video directed by Lebanese filmmaker Ely Dagher.
You can watch the video below and read Mayssa’s notes on the historical/geopolitical context.
Apr 21 – Donau Festival, Krems, AT – tickets Apr 24 – Hotel Olympik, Prague, CZ Apr 26 – Sharpe Festival, Bratislava, SK – tickets Apr 27 – Silent Green, Berlin, DE – tickets May 1 – UCL, London, UK (workshop) May 2 – Folklore Hoxton, London, UK – tickets May 3 – Les Aralunaires, Arlon, BE – tickets May 4 – Les Nuits Botanique, Brussels, BE – tickets
WATCH the video for “Holiday Inn (January to March)”
Directed by Ely Dagher, the video for Mayssa’s album track “Holiday Inn (January to March)” is a visually stunning work exploring the album’s theme of memory and decay. Archival images of a war-torn Beirut early in Lebanon’s Civil War are digitally processed into a series of fractured 3D models, through which we are slowly navigated. The results are eerily haunting, and resonate powerfully with current events.
According to Dagher, “I was looking for a visual language that could express the fragility and complexity of an elusive and broken memory – something fragmented and incomplete. Archive footage from the battles were given a new life and perspective to craft a collage that blends details from the vivid realism of the battles with the fluid capacity of memory. Bodies, buildings, feelings and violence fragmented.”
Mayssa writes that “Holiday Inn is an immense modernist high rise hotel with a revolving rooftop restaurant, overlooking the Mediterranean… It was inaugurated in 1974, a few months before the beginning of the battle of the hotels, in which it was a main protagonist, first invaded by the blues (right wing nationalists) and then the reds (left wing pro Palestinians). For 5 months, with 5 star hotel amenities, blue gunmen terrorized and controlled the city. During this period, two massacres occurred: on January 18, in Karantina, the blues killed 1,500 Muslims and Palestinians. On January 20th, in Damour, the reds killed 1,500 Christians. Spiraling into endless violence and retaliation.
The phenomenon of high rises in Beirut, these weapons of war that created the perfect conditions for urban warfare, is an often overlooked effect of the 1948 Nakba, when Israeli Occupying Forces expelled Palestinians and destabilized the Arab region. Wealthy Palestinians, Syrians and Iraqis invested their money in Lebanon to avoid the brunt of political and economic crises in their home countries. In parallel, Gulf countries that had struck oil around that period, also started investing in Beirut . A “Golden Era” of grandiose projects for the 1% was born, luxury hotels, nightclubs, towers, ignoring the ‘belt of misery’ being formed around the capital. A luxury so vulnerable, so easily destabilized that it was invaded 6 months after the civil war broke out, again, as an effect of the Nakba and the political division since the Palestinian Liberation Organization took post in Lebanon.
Today, these buildings exist as relics of the past, among new skyscrapers that threaten to repeat the same history over and over again. Are we remembering, or are we just reliving the past? We long to forget, and end up falling into the same traps of violence and false prosperity, over and over again.”
A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal – this broadcast features a guest mix by Berlin-based Lebanese DJ, sound artist and photographer RAMI ABI RAFI. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.
In Rami’s own words: “In this broadcast entitled INSIJAM, meaning ‘harmony’ in Arabic, the essence of chances and encounters takes center stage. Combining musique concrète with traditional Arabic sounds, the performance shifts between experimental, avant-garde, spoken word, field recordings, and improvised jazz. INSIJAM represents my perspective on the beauty of diverse musical encounters.”
ÉLIANE RADIGUE – Adnos I
PHILL NIBLOCK – Didjeridoos and Don’ts
PAULINE OLIVEROS – Time Perspectives
BANA HAFFAR – Ahl Al Samaa’
RAED YASSIN – Black Risotto With Razor Clams
TWO OR THE DRAGON – Dance Grooves For The Weary -Part I-
FRANZ HAUTZINGER & MAZEN KERBAJ – Kalash 1
RASHAD BECKER – matraquage
RELÂCHE ENSEMBLE – Paul Epstein, “Three Songs from Home
NADAH EL SHAZLY – Breakup By The Sea
MARGARET LENG TAN – Dream
‘A’ TRIO – Kazdoura
JANA WINDEREN – Live in Den Haag
LAURIE SPIEGEL – Music for Dance II
YOUMNA SABA – Al khayal الخيال
SNAKESKIN (JULIA SABRA & FADI TABBAL) – Past Tense
In February 2024, we released two new albums by Lebanese electronic producer Jawad Nawfal aka Munma.
TRANSIENT ORGANis the first physical solo release by Jawad Nawfal since 2016’s landmark full-length Three Voices.
The music on the album was composed by Nawfal between November 2021 and September 2023, in bouts of fractured creativity punctuated by frequent power cuts in his native city of Beirut. Transient Organ features the voice of regular Munma collaborator Caroline Tabet, whose evocative spoken word poetry appears on two tracks. Tabet also provided the drawing that graces the cover of the album.
Mastered by Cedrik Fermont in Berlin, designed by Maya Chami in Beirut.
Transient Organ is available as a digital album and limited release cassette of 40 copies, printed and duplicated in Montreal, Canada.
Listen/Order: rupturedthelabel.bandcamp.com/album/transient-organMODERN INDIVIDUAL is the first recorded collaboration between Jawad Nawfal and Lebanese experimental musicians Jad Atoui (NP, Kinematik Ensemble) and Sharif Sehnaoui (‘A’ Trio, Calamita).
The music on this album was composed and performed by Atoui, Nawfal and Sehnaoui in Beirut, between January and August 2023.
Mastered by Cedrik Fermont in Berlin, designed by Maya Chami in Beirut.
Modern Individual is available as a digital album and limited release cassette of 40 copies, printed and duplicated in Montreal, Canada.
Listen/Order: rupturedthelabel.bandcamp.com/album/modern-individual
act·art·mgt, Heavy Trip & Ruptured present: Nadah El Shazly & Radwan Ghazi Moumneh | Live at Hotel2Tango
Nadah El Shazly and Radwan Ghazi Moumneh present their duo collaboration after a week-long composition residency, in the intimate setting of Hotel2Tango recording studio in Montreal.
Sunday 25 February 2024, 8pm (doors)
Hotel2Tango recording studio, Tiohtia:ke | Montréal.
This is a very limited seating event. No sales at the door. BYOB
Ruptured Music 