A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.
Tag: Elyse Tabet
Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Radio Alhara // We Out Here x Worldwide FM // 13 June 2024
Ziad Nawfal contributed a 60mn mix to Radio Alhara’s takeover for UK online radio WORLDWIDE FM on Thursday 13 June 2024.
Full lineup: https://worldwidefm.net/episode/we-out-here-x-worldwide-fm-a-celebration-of-community-radio
Ziad’s track list:
“I was convinced that an atom of your love could keep me going”
1. Sandy Chamoun – Soukoun Mouwhesh
2. Charbel Haber & Sary Moussa – An Atom of Your Love
3. FRKTL – Háttatal
4. Nadah El Shazly – End Credit
5. Nancy Mounir – Gannentini (feat. Zaki Murad)
6. Farah Kaddour – Mad ou Jazr
7. Natik Awayez – Manbarani
8. Hassan Khan – Tabla Dubb No.15
9. Maurice Louca – Yara’ (Fire Flies)
10. Sanam – Aykathani Malakon (An Angel Woke Me)
11. Tasjiil Moujahed – Blue Mirror
12. Bana Haffar – Elemental
13. NÂR – MIMOUNE II
14. Marc Codsi – The Savior
Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Radio Alhara // Fadi Tabbal Showcase // 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)
Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Radio Alhara // 19 July 2023
Ziad Nawfal’s monthly broadcast for Radio Alhara in Bethlehem, Palestine – showcasing two albums released in digital format by Ruptured in 2022/2023:
KAPUT by The Art of Boo
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LOW TOMS BRIGHT BELLS AND DARKEST SPELLS by Elyse Tabet
Track List
THE ART OF BOO – Kaput
1. Intro
2. Boom Kaboom
3. Entry
4. Exit
5. Dear Anna
6. Promenade
7. Dolor
8. Dawn
9. Exodus
ELYSE TABET with Pascal Semerdjian & Yara Asmar – Low Toms Bright Bells and Darkest Spells
10. Low Toms
11. Bright Bells
12. Bright Bells (Bana Haffar Remix)
13. Low Toms Through the Paper Shredder
14. And Darkest Spells
Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Movement Radio // 06 December 2022
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.
- Jerusalem In My Heart – Ana Lisan Wahad (feat. Farida Amadou & Pierre-Guy Blanchard) [LB/CA/BE]
- Abadir – Bass Belly [EG]
- TEDTEDTED – Calculators [LB]
- Liliane Chlela – Charr [LB]
- Rise 1969 – Floating Memory [LB]
- Etyen – Goodbye [LB]
- Sary Moussa – In Praise of Shadows [LB]
- Yara Asmar – it’s always october on sunday [LB]
- Elyse Tabet with Pascal Semerdjian & Yara Asmar – Low Toms [LB]
- Sandy Chamoun – Nas el Wahel [LB]
- Pie Are Squared – Oscillate Thrice [EG]
- Maurice Louca – Saet el Hazz (feat. “A” Trio) [EG/LB]
- Julia Sabra & Fadi Tabbal – Snakeskin [LB]

(2022 end-of-year lists) – ELYSE TABET
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
- Actress – Dummy Corporation
- Alex Zhang Hungtai – Swimming Bird
- Boronko – Liminal
- Burial – Streetlands
- Faten Kanaan – A Mythology of Circles
- Julia Sabra & Fadi Tabbal – Snakeskin
- Kali Malone – Living Torch
- Marina Harlow – Pripyat
- Mars89 – Visions
- Mondkopf – Spring Stories
- Nancy Mounir – Nozhet El Noufous
- Safa – Ibtihalat
- Sandy Chamoun – Fata17
- Sawako – Stella Epoca
- xlmxkhfi – Afterthought
- Yara Asmar – Home Recordings 2018 – 2021
















Ruptured Album Release // ELYSE TABET with Pascal Semerdjian and Yara Asmar // Low Toms Bright Bells And Darkest Spells
Releasing December 2nd, 2022 on Ruptured Records:
Acclaimed Lebanese producer Elyse Tabet’s first full-length release for Ruptured, featuring rising talent Yara Asmar and seasoned sessionist Pascal Semerdjian from shoegaze trio Postcards.
ELYSE TABET is a Lebanese audiovisual artist and electronic musician. She works with recorded and synthesized sound to create electro-acoustic landscapes and deconstructed rhythmics, drawing her inspiration from musique concrète, ambient, industrial electronica, dub and garage beats. Elyse began working in the field of audiovisual interaction in the early 2000s, mainly as a videographer for live performances and DJ sets. She has collaborated on projects with electronic producer Jawad Nawfal, drummer and producer Nabil Saliba, electronic musician Yangfan Li, video artist Maureen Castera, and Lisbon-based artist and curator Violeta Lisboa. Elyse is a co-founder of the Beirut Synthesizer Center.
Low Toms Bright Bells and Darkest Spells is Elyse’s third release, following Newfound Grids on Berlin-based Syrphe in 2013 and Coast on Beirut-based label VV-VA in 2020, the latter a duo with Lebanese musician Jawad Nawfal.
Music composed by Elyse Tabet with Yara Asmar and Pascal Semerdjian.
Recorded in December 2021 and January 2022 by Fadi Tabbal at Tunefork Studios, Beirut.
Mixed and produced by Elyse Tabet, with additional mixing by Fadi Tabbal. Mastered by Cedrik Fermont at Syrphe, Berlin.
Available as a digital album.
Listen/Order HERE
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Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Movement Radio // 04 October 2022
Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Movement Radio in Athens, featuring music from Lebanon 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. Julia Sabra & Fadi Tabbal – Roots [LB]
2. Yara Asmar – Numbers Don’t Make Good Friends [LB]
3. Jad Atoui & Jawad Nawfal – Reading 1 [LB]
4. Marc Codsi – Finding Home [LB]
5. Postcards – Keep the Elephant in The Room (with Serge Yared) [LB]
6. Elyse Tabet – We Slept Through the Day [LB]
7. Xlmxkhfi – Movement Song [LB]
8. Fadi Tabbal – Are Aquariums Moral [LB]
9. Marc Codsi – Hangar #12 [LB]
10. Xlmxkhfi – Black Beach [LB]
11. Postcards – Kozo [LB]
12. Mayssa Jallad & Khaled Allaf – Madina Min Baeed [LB]
13. Stress Distress – Different Currencies [LB]
14. Muslimgauze & The Rootsman – Fuck Yitzhak Rabin / Fuck Ehud Olmert [UK]
(2021 end-of-year lists) – ELYSE TABET
It’s been a while (five good years actually) since we’ve done this, and so we’ve gone ahead and asked the musicians whom we worked with this year in some respect or other, to tell us about their favorite albums of 2021.
ELYSE TABET
– Nala Sinephro: Space 1.8
– Eliane Radigue: Opus 17
– HU: Nightworks
– Liliane Chlela: Safala
– Anthony Sahyoun: Proof by Infinite Descent
– 33EMYBW: Arthropods
– Actress: Karma & Desire
– Dirty Bird: Virginia Creeper
– Low: HEY WHAT
– The Distance: Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs










Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Movement Radio – VVVA Edition // 09 September 2021
Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Movement Radio in Athens – showcasing Lebanese digital electronic label VV-VA. This mix was commissioned and produced by Onassis Cultural Center, and presented for the first time in the frame of MOVEMENT RADIO.
1. Charbel Haber & Jawad Nawfal – Across The River Styx
2. Jad Atoui & Jawad Nawfal – Amber Color
3. Elyse Tabet & Jawad Nawfal – At The Gay Bar Being Gay
4. Sharif Sehnaoui & Jawad Nawfal – Castle
5. Jawad Nawfal – Between Scylla and Charybdis
6. Anthony Sahyoun & Jawad Nawfal – February 2 pt.2
7. Jawad Nawfal – Nine Hundred Chariots
8. Mazen El Sayed & Jawad Nawfal – Liquid Sun
9. Jad Atoui – Signals
10. Jad Atoui & Jawad Nawfal – Vice Versa
11. Mazen El Sayed & Jawad Nawfal – Pastless
12. Elyse Tabet & Jawad Nawfal – Courbe Lisse






