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Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Radio Alhara // We Out Here x Worldwide FM // 13 June 2024

July 15, 2024October 28, 2025Music ShowsLeave a Comment

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

Ruptured Music · Ziad Nawfal’s Guest Mix for Radio Alhara // Worldwide FM Takeover [June 2024]

Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Radio Alhara // Fadi Tabbal Showcase // 15 May 2024

June 20, 2024August 9, 2024Music ShowsLeave a Comment

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)

Ruptured Music · Ziad Nawfal’s Guest Mix for Radio Alhara // A Fadi Tabbal Showcase [May 2024]

Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Movement Radio 02 // 19 November 2020

November 26, 2020October 16, 2022Music ShowsLeave a Comment

Ziad Nawfal’s 2nd monthly mix for Movement Radio in Athens – featuring music from Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Iran. This mix was commissioned and produced by Onassis Cultural Center, and presented for the first time in the frame of MOVEMENT RADIO.

1. Bana Haffar – Exo [LB]
2. Anthony Sahyoun & Jawad Nawfal – February 17 [LB]
3. Stress Distress – The Jetty [LB]
4. Abadir – Loved One [EG]
5. Daou – Lust [LB]
6. Aya Metwalli – Lugere [EG]
7. Nur Jaber – Mona [LB]
8. Sote – Pipe Dreams [IR]
9. Basel Naouri – Epic Wars [JO]
10. Joseph Ghosn – Untitled Sketch (For ‘ Beyrouth’) [LB]

(2014 end-of-year lists) – JOSEPH GHOSN

December 29, 2014May 20, 2019ChartsLeave a Comment

I asked some of my musician friends from Beirut, to list their 10 favorite albums of 2014…
Or the music they’ve listened to the most during the past year, regardless of date of release

Joseph Ghosn (writer & musician)

2014 a été une année un peu étrange durant laquelle j’ai tenté de désapprendre à acheter des disques (sans succès), à aimer la pop sans que ce soit un exercice théorique (sans grand succès), à trouver autre chose que de la musique abstraite pour me nourrir (avec plus ou moins de succès), à ne pas céder unilatéralement aux rééditions de toutes sortes (sans aucun succès). Cela dit, au bout de l’année, quelques disques m’ont vraiment captivé et capturé les oreilles. Parmi eux, il y a pas mal de maxis de techno que j’ai aimés sincèrement mais que je ne retiens pas parce qu’ils sont passés trop vite, il y a aussi les 3 albums de NeoTantrik, le groupe d’Andy Votel et Demdike Stare qui auraient fait un seul disque splendide, il y a toutes les cassettes, maxis, rééditions, projets de Demdike Stare qui ne me quittent pas, il y a aussi pas mal de trucs New Age eighties assez beaux – à commencer par la compilation I Am The Center trimballée partout ces 9 derniers mois… Bref, 2014 a été riche mais ne m’avait pas donné envie de faire une liste. Jusqu’à la demande de Ziad pour son blog. D’où ce qui suit, subjectif et sûrement déjà obsolète – à vous de voir :

Dirty Beaches – Stateless
Shinichi Atobe – The Butterfly Effect
Metronomy – Love Letters
Andy Stott – Faith In Strangers
Dean Blunt – Black Metal
Locust – After The Rain
Wolves In The Throne Room – Célestite
Oren Ambarchi – Quixotism
Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence
Kassel Jaeger – Toxic Cosmopolitanism
Bitchin Bajas – double album
Scott Walker + Sunn O))) – Soused
Trevor Jackson – Yesterday Today Tomorrow Forever
Grouper – Ruins
Aphex Twin – Syro
Forever Pavot – album
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Rééditions : Craig Leon / Phill Niblock / Ariel Kalma / Crime / Polyphonic Size / Louis de Meester / Jean-Claude Risset / François Bayle / Francis Bebey

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(2012 end-of-year lists) – JOSEPH GHOSN

December 30, 2012May 20, 2019ChartsLeave a Comment

I asked some of my favorite musician and artist friends, from Beirut and beyond, to list their 10 favorite albums of 2012…
Alternately, they could also provide me with a list of the records they listened to the most in 2012, regardless of date of release.

Joseph Ghosn (writer & musician)

10 disques de 2012 à réévaluer en 2022:

1. Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe: Timon Irnok Manta
2. Vindicatrix: Mengamuk
3. Mika Vaino, Kevin Drumm, Axel Dörner & Lucio Capece: Venexia
4. Carter Tutti Void: Transverse
5. Curt Crakrach: Happy Holidays
6. Dean Blunt: The Narcissist II
7. Pete Swanson / Rene Hell: Split
8. Four Tet: Pink
9. German Army: III
10. Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier: Venice Is Falling/An Age Of Wonder

Review // Joseph Ghosn & Charbel Haber // Between Birthdays Cassette

September 15, 2011September 12, 2023Press ArchiveLeave a Comment

[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).

JOSEPH GHOSN // Ruptured Session // 08 February 2010

February 15, 2010June 12, 2024Live On AirLeave a Comment

An interview and live performance by Lebanese-born musician and journalist Joseph Ghosn. He talks about his audio/video performance “Beirut”, which was to take place at the Walimat Warde restaurant the following day, as part of the “Greedy Ears” live sessions.

Listen:
Joe Ghosn 1
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Joe Ghosn 2

Track listing:
Joseph Ghosn
Lee Hazlewood
My Bloody Valentine
Harmonia
Brian Eno
Alice Coltrane
Spacemen 3