We released A Separation From Habit by Joy Moughanni on cassette in April 2025. It now returns on vinyl.
Limited to 200 copies. 50 are available via our Bandcamp page. The rest will travel with Joy on his upcoming tour.
Built from archival tape recordings (1975–1985) by Georges Tarazi, alongside radio fragments and electronic processing, the album moves through conflict and memory, without offering resolution.
Named one of The Quietus Albums of the Year 2025 (#48).
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 musician and producer JOY MOUGHANNI. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.
Joy Moughanni is a Beirut-based producer, engineer, and songwriter, and a partner at Tunefork Studios. He emerged from Beirut’s alternative scene through the electronic and pop projects Pomme Rouge and Gizzmo, producing four EPs before moving into a solo practice and becoming a collaborator with artists across the region.
TRACK LISTING:
Joy Moughanni – The Voice I’ve Yet To Understand
Autechre – M4 Lema
Ben Frost – Killshot
SANAM – Sametou Sawtan
Sary Moussa – A Storm, a Gift
aya – hexed!
Jerusalem In My Heart – Tanto
NP [Jad Atoui & Anthony Sahyoun] – Coins With Memory
As the year winds down, we asked every artist whose music Ruptured released in 2025 to share the records that stayed closest to them over the past months.
Published here over the coming days, these end-of-season charts gather the albums that accompanied writing, touring, waiting, and living through it all.
The Vapornet, by Claudia Khachan & Ziad Moukarzel / A Separation From Habit, by Joy Moughanni
We are proud to announce two powerful new albums released today on Ruptured, available on cassette and digital formats.
Claudia Khachan & Ziad Moukarzel – The Vapornet The Vapornet is the result of a unique collaboration between sound producer and musician Ziad Moukarzel and multidisciplinary artist Claudia Khachan. Developed over a long-distance exchange between Beirut and Europe, the album captures a dialogue in sound—blending ambient textures, deep bass, restless rhythms, organ swells, and ethereal vocals. Structured yet intuitive, The Vapornet unfolds as a meditation on distance, uncertainty, and transformation, offering five tracks that explore the delicate interplay between absence and connection. For listeners of FKA twigs, Laurel Halo, Holly Herndon, and Arca.
Joy Moughanni – A Separation From Habit A Separation From Habit marks the debut solo release from Lebanese musician, producer, and sound engineer Joy Moughanni. Built from archival tape recordings, manipulated electronics, and dense sonic layering, the album is a deeply personal reflection on grief, trauma, and memory. Drawing from recordings made between 1975 and 1985 by George Tarazi, Moughanni crafts a vivid and unsettling exploration of Lebanon’s ongoing struggles, using sound to collapse past and present into a powerful and immersive listening experience. Highly recommended for fans of Fennesz, Tim Hecker, Éliane Radigue, and Tarek Atoui.
Both albums are now available through Ruptured Records. We invite you to explore these works—each a testament to strength, collaboration, and the transformative potential of sound.
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.
Lebanese electro-pop band GIZZMO (Joy Moughanni, Alex Chahine and Camilio El Khoury) were the guests of Ruptures on Radio Liban 96.2FM, for an interview detailing the production of their first EP “System Failure”, on Fantôme de Nuit Records.
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