New music video by Interbellum!
“Ready to Dissolve” is the new single off Interbellum’s sophomore album Dead Pets, Old Griefs, released by Ruptured in October 2018.
Filmmaker Camille Cabbabé and the two leads snuck into the dilapidated Grand Theatre in Beirut on a sun-streaked April day – watch the haunting result below.
The album can be purchased via Bandcamp here.
Tag: Fadi Tabbal
ALKO B // 2nd Ruptured Session // 05 August 2019
Lebanese musician Salim Naffah aka ALKO B was the guest of Ruptures on Radio Liban 96.2 FM, for an interview revolving around the making and production of his second solo album “Dreaming Is Not For Two”. Alko B performed several songs from his new album in the studio, accompanied by Fadi Tabbal from Tunefork Studios on live sound duties. Photos by Ziad Nawfal.
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Track listing:
1. Alko B
2. M. Ward
3. The Ventures
4. Timber Timbre
5. Bobby Vinton
6. Alko B LIVE *2
7. Martin Rev
8. Alko B LIVE *2
9. The Beach Boys
10. Alko B LIVE
11. Alko B
Ruptures Radio Show // February 2019
Featuring artists from Lebanon, Armenia and Egypt:
1. Marc Codsi – Invocation I [from “A New World”, March 2019]
2. Jad Atoui & Jawad Nawfal – Discourse [from V/A “Uchronia”, 2018]
3. Maurice Louca – Laika [from “Elephantine”, 2019]
4. Panstarrs – Dor el fo2 [demo, 2017]
5. Two or the Dragon – Addiction To Heartache [from V/A “Anthology of Electroacoustic Lebanese Music”, 2018]
6. Kozo – Osaka 70 [forthcoming in 2019]
7. Khoum – Ke [from “Serm”, 2018]
8. Tarkamt – Et Sic In Infinitum [from “Live at the Necropolis”, 2017]
9. Ziad Moukarzel – Questions Of Worry [from V/A “Anthology of Electroacoustic Lebanese Music”, 2018]
10. Zuli – Nari (feat. Abyusif, Mado $am, Abanob & R-Rhyme) [from “Terminal”, 2018]
11. Safa – Ward [from “The Subtleties Of Elevated Things”, 2018]
12. Sharif Sehnaoui – Double Standard [from V/A “Uchronia”, 2018]
13. Stress Distress – The Jetty [from “The Quiet Zone”, 2019]
14. Fadi Tabbal – My Doll [from “Music For The Lonely Vol.1”, 2018]
Press Review // Interbellum // Dead Pets, Old Griefs
A few weeks following the release of Lebanese indie band Interbellum‘s sophomore album “Dead Pets, Old Griefs” on Ruptured, here are some of the reviews that were written about this unique collection of songs:
x Read Lie In The Sound‘s review here
x Read I Can Guarantee‘s review here
x Read We All Want Someone To Shout For‘s review here
x Read Barrygruff Music Blog‘s review here
x Read Arab News‘s review here
x Read Scene Noise‘s review here
x Read Various Small Flames‘s review here
x Read The Revue‘s review here
x Read Indie For Bunnies‘s review here
x Read American Pancake‘s review here
x Read Mp3hugger‘s review here
x Read L’Orient Le Jour‘s review here
x Read GQ Middle East‘s review here
x Read We Love That‘s review here
ZIAD NAWFAL // MusicMap Soundscape 015 // June 2018
MusicMap’s ‘Soundscape’ series is a brilliant way to keep up with local music scenes and global trends. Every few weeks, the people behind this amazing platform visit a different country and ask someone familiar with the scene to serve up a mix of the finest local sounds…
“This month we’re visiting Lebanon for our first Soundscape from the Middle East. Our guide this time is Beirut-based DJ, promoter and producer Ziad Nawfal, co-founder of ground-breaking independent label Ruptured and managing director of Irtijal, the country’s first experimental music festival. Ziad Nawfal has spent his career championing independent Lebanese music via his ‘Ruptures’ and ‘Decalages’ shows on Radio Lebanon, so we knew we were in for a treat with his Soundscape mix…”
Track listing: 1. El Rass & Munma – Kashghara (Adam, Darwin & The Penguin, 2015) 2. Kinematik – Lalochezia (Ala’, 2017) 3. Calamita – FTC (Calamita, 2018) 4. Fadi Tabbal – Crystal Palace (Museum of Disappearing Buildings, 2015) 5. Youmna Saba – Nafas (Njoum, 2014) 6. Jad Atoui – Zikr (Unreleased track, 2016) 7. The Bunny Tylers – Mothers Make Murderers (Glitches & Drones, 2016) 8. Kid Fourteen – It’s A Lovely Night (Dream Kids Never Sleep, 2016) 9. Scrambled Eggs – Building A Nest (Unreleased track, 2013) 10. KOZO 構造 – Don’t Leave, Kurokawa! (Beirut Wave Three, 2017) 11. Mme Chandelier – Minimal Potato (Post Coital Tristesse, 2016) 12. Radiokvm – Alpha Apparatus (Issrar, 2014) 13. Stephanie Merchak – Und Meine Antwort War Nein (Eine Frage, 2018) 14. Munma – Cadavre Exquis (Three Voices, 2016)
Track listing: 1. El Rass & Munma – Kashghara (Adam, Darwin & The Penguin, 2015) 2. Kinematik – Lalochezia (Ala’, 2017) 3. Calamita – FTC (Calamita, 2018) 4. Fadi Tabbal – Crystal Palace (Museum of Disappearing Buildings, 2015) 5. Youmna Saba – Nafas (Njoum, 2014) 6. Jad Atoui – Zikr (Unreleased track, 2016) 7. The Bunny Tylers – Mothers Make Murderers (Glitches & Drones, 2016) 8. Kid Fourteen – It’s A Lovely Night (Dream Kids Never Sleep, 2016) 9. Scrambled Eggs – Building A Nest (Unreleased track, 2013) 10. KOZO 構造 – Don’t Leave, Kurokawa! (Beirut Wave Three, 2017) 11. Mme Chandelier – Minimal Potato (Post Coital Tristesse, 2016) 12. Radiokvm – Alpha Apparatus (Issrar, 2014) 13. Stephanie Merchak – Und Meine Antwort War Nein (Eine Frage, 2018) 14. Munma – Cadavre Exquis (Three Voices, 2016)
NADINE SHAH // Ruptured Session // 11 May 2018
Ruptured had the privilege of hosting exceptional British musician Nadine Shah in the studios of Radio Liban 96.2 FM on Friday 11/05, for a radio session engineered by Fadi Tabbal from Tunefork Studios. Nadine Shah will perform a concert at Onomatopoeia The Music Hub on Saturday 12/05, featuring James Brown from UK band Pulled Part by Horses and Lebanese singer-songwriter Youmna Saba.
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POSTCARDS // 2nd Ruptured Session // 26 Jan 2018
For our second “Ruptured Session” of 2018, we were thrilled to welcome in the studios of Radio Liban 96.2FM Lebanese band POSTCARDS, consisting for this particular occasion of Julia Sabra (guitar & vocals), Marwan Tohme (guitar & backing vocals), and Pascal Semerdjian (synth & backing vocals). The three musicians spoke at length about the making of their most recent release “I’ll be here in the morning” (T3 Records + Ruptured, 2018), presented some of their favorite tracks, and performed two songs from the album.
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Ruptured Album Release // THE BUNNY TYLERS // Chance Meetings
The Bunny Tylers – Chance Meetings
CD & LP Release by Ruptured, January 2018
On celebrating cold tobacco and cheap aftershave, eternal sunsets and surfer suicides, Film Noir and Thomas Pynchon, and the mighty power of the drone…
The Bunny Tylers is a drone/ambient group from Beirut, Lebanon, whose core consists of guitarists Charbel Haber (Scrambled Eggs, Malayeen, Johnny Kafta’s Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra) and Fadi Tabbal (The Incompetents, Under the Carpet, Safar), often joined on stage by Pascal Semerdjian and Marwan Tohmé from folk band Postcards. Operating firmly outside of any musical trends, at the heart of Bunny Tylers is the desire to tie musical loose ends and threads derived as much from the two men’s solo records, as a very tangible teenage dream of remaking My Bloody Valentine’s “Loveless”.
The duo initially came together in 2013 to compose and record incidental music for Nadim Tabet and Karine Wehbe’s video essay “Summer of 91”. They began exploring different guitar bowing techniques, set amidst a loose and free-flowing musical frame, away from rigid compositional stratagems. Preoccupied with texture rather than finite structure, guitar drones and intricate pedal-work set the ambience and mood for Haber’s lyrics of self-reflection and existential bleakness. Love stories indeed, albeit ones engrossed with the inexorable progress of the Grim Reaper.
The Bunny Tylers’ first album, “Glitches & Drones 2013-2016”, was released by Ruptured in 2016. The duo’s second album was recorded by Benoit de Villeneuve (from Team Ghost and a collaborator of M83) in Paris in the summer of 2017. The CD version of the album was released during the 2017 edition of Wickerpark Festival, while LP and digital versions will be available starting January 2018.
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Ruptured Album Release // FADI TABBAL // Museum Of Disappearing Buildings
Fadi Tabbal – Museum of Disappearing Buildings
LP Release by Ruptured & Beacon Sound, October 2017
Fadi Tabbal, guitarist with Lebanese alternative rock bands The Incompetents and The Bunny Tylers among many others, self-released his second solo album, “Museum of Disappearing Buildings”, in November 2015.
This album continues further the work of sound exploration through guitar treatments, which began with “On the Rooftop Looking Up” in 2013. While the young guitarist’s first album featured a finely-devised interaction of ambient soundscapes and John Fahey-inspired finger-picking acoustic meanderings, this second solo outing adopts a different approach: it relies on an interplay of ambient guitar drones and grainy electronics, which recalls to a degree the work of early Krautrock vanguard artists from the 1970’s, the leftfield exploration of British electro-acoustic practitioners from the mid-1970’s, as well as the radical works of American minimalist composers from the 1960’s.
Similarly to his first outing, Tabbal preferred a radical and direct approach to composition and recording, opting for the intimacy and self-reflection of home recordings, rather than the traditional environment of a recording studio. At the heart of the album, resides one unifying concept, which finds its way into the resulting musical bed: the sketches and impossible structures and urban configurations of Russian paper architects Brodsky and Utkin.
The album will be re-released in October 2017 in a limited vinyl edition of 300 copies, the result of a collaboration between Lebanese label Ruptured and Portland-based indie label Beacon Sound.
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Ruptured News // September-October 2017
SEPTEMBER 9
DJ set by Ziad Nawfal at Wickerpark Music Festival 2017
The 7th edition of this outstanding Lebanese festival, set on the shores of the coastal city of Batroun, will feature concerts by Alko B., The Bunny Tylers, Kinematik and Who Killed Bruce Lee, among others.
Facebook event here
SEPTEMBER 9
The Bunny Tylers: “Chance Meetings”
Album launch by Ruptured during Wickerpark Festival 2017
Ruptured releases the CD version of this Lebanese duo’s (Charbel Haber and Fadi Tabbal) 2nd album, recorded by renowned French producer Benoit de Villeneuve during the summer of 2017.
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SEPTEMBER 13
Postcards: “I’ll Be Here In The Morning”
Album launch by Ruptured at Beirut Open Space
Ruptured is proud to welcome in its roster exemplary indie folk quartet Postcards, for the release of the CD version of its latest album. The launch will take place in recently-opened live venue Beirut Open Space, with a DJ set from Ziad Nawfal.
Facebook event here
SEPTEMBER 22
I Am Not A Robot vol. II
DJ night at Yukunkun Club, Beirut
The 2nd installment of this high-octane techno event, featuring the talents of Tamira Soufic, Ziad Nawfal and Essabbagh.
[Visual by Maria Kassab]
OCTOBER 1
Munma / Mme Chandelier / Fadi Tabbal
Cinemix “The Woman One Longs For” at Metropolis Cinema
Ruptured, Metropolis and Goethe Institute Lebanon collaborate on this newly commissioned cinemix for Curtis Bernhardt’s classic film from 1929, featuring three of Lebanon’s most talented experimental musicians.
OCTOBER 2017
Fadi Tabbal: Museum of Disappearing Buildings
Album release by Beacon Sound and Ruptured
Lebanese guitarist and producer Fadi Tabbal‘s breathtaking 2nd solo record, initially self-released on CD in 2015, is made available on vinyl by Ruptured and USA-based label Beacon Sound.
Listen to an excerpt and read the review by Fractured Air:
https://fracturedair.com/2017/09/07/first-listen-crystal-palace-by-fadi-tabbal/
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