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Ruptured News // IN MY HEART’S EYE: THE LOVE PROJECT
IN MY HEART’S EYE: THE LOVE PROJECT
A performance by Zoukak Theatre Company
14, 15, 16 and 20, 21, 22 February, 8:30pm at Zoukak Studio, Beirut, Karantina
“The Love Project” studies a succession of ephemeral moments that have defined people’s various journeys. The performance involves the audience in a series of tableaux that encapsulate various love encounters; playing with the mechanisms of attraction, infatuation, daydreaming, and loss, as a process of endless re-enactments and a way to see the world through the Other.
Directed by: Maya Zbib
Performers: Lamia Abi Azar, Louloua Ghandour, Junaid Sarieddine, Nasri Sayegh and Maya Zbib
Scenographer: Nathalie Harb
Assistant director: Line Itani
Music selected and played by Ziad Nawfal — all tracks taken from the Ruptured Records catalog, 2012-2019
Light designer and technical director: Nadim Deaibes
Technical team: Bahaa Baddour, Nourhan Fakhoury, Salim Bou Ayash, Jean Kisswany, Fadi Ajlan
Sound engineer: George Abou Zeid
Stage managers: Line Itani, Sari Shrayteh and Marianne Kortbani
Graphic designer: Maya Chami
Communication officer: Marianne Kortbani
English translation: Rayya Badran and Ziad Nawfal
Production manager: Mohamad Hamdan and Nancy Nasreddine
Buy tickets from Ihjoz. Facebook event here.
Ruptures Radio Show // December 2018
Featuring artists from Lebanon, Egypt, Palestine, Morocco and France:
1. Interbellum – Ready to dissolve
2. Postcards – Revolvers
3. Alko B – Elephant in the room [Ruptured session, to be released Xmas 2018]
4. Mme Chandelier – Exodus
5. Oiseaux-Tempete + Bunny Tylers – The little known ending fading away [Live]
6. Munma – Eole
7. Kid Fourteen – Ice in my eyes
8. Cosmic Analog Ensemble – Phoenician rose
9. Heroes & Villains – The rest is history
10. Tapeman No. 1 – Le coeur sec
11. Ziad Qoulaii Allstars – Mystique [Unreleased]
12. Maryam Saleh, Maurice Louca & Tamer Abu Ghazaleh – Nefsif akli
13. Panstarrs – Dor el fo2 [Unreleased]
Ruptured Live // MUNMA & SHARIF SEHNAOUI // Ono Hub
Ruptured Live // MUNMA & JAD ATOUI // Ono Hub
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)
Ruptures Radio Show // 23 March 2018
Saturday 23 March 2018, Radio Lebanon 96.2FM (8-9pm)
1. Tamer Abu Ghazaleh, Maryam Saleh & Maurice Louca: Nefsif akli (ps/eg)
2. Mutamassik: Waiting for my orders (us)
3. Aya Metwalli: Fein enta (eg)
4. Munma: Muse (lb)
5. omrr: Quicksands (eg)
6. Cosmic Analog Ensemble: Pourparlers + Les sourdes oreilles (lb)
7. Zeid Hamdan: Mekdass w Abel (lb)
8. Wake Island: Never entirely there (lb/ca)
9. Sufyvn: Dust (sd)
10. Dwarfs Of East Agouza: Rats don’t eat synthesizers (us/ca/eg)
11. Gökçen Kaynatan: Sihirbaz (tr)
12. KELAB (eg)
13. Mutamassik: Marvellous in training (us)
Ruptured Live // MUNMA & MME CHANDELIER // Ono Hub
Ruptured & Onomatopoeia The Music Hub present
MUNMA & MME CHANDELIER
Live at Ono Music Hub
Thursday 26 April 2018, 8.30pm
Ruptures Radio Show // 31 December 2016
Saturday 31 December 2016, Radio Lebanon 96.2FM (8-9pm)
1. Alko B: Her heart gets to stay (lb)
2. Interbellum: Somersaults (lb)
3. Who Killed Bruce Lee: Enemy at the line (lb)
4. Scrambled Eggs: Building a nest (lb)
5. Bunny Tylers: Mothers make murderers (lb)
6. Fadi Tabbal: How’s Annie [Edit] (lb)
7. Munma: Muse (lb)
8. Mme Chandelier: Minimal potato (lb)
9. Kinematik: Aawaynat nazar (lb)
10. Kid Fourteen: I get around all day (lb)
11. Jad Atoui: Tension (lb)
12. Zuli: Robotic jabs in 4D (eg)
13. Aya Metwalli: Manyaka (eg)
14. El Rass: El akh men weyn? (lb)
Ruptured Live // Munma & Fadi Tabbal + Maya Chami // Ono Hub
Wednesday, October 12th, 2016 – 8.30 pm
at Onomatopoeia The Music Hub, Beirut
With
Munma: synths /electronics
Fadi Tabbal: electric guitar /electronics
Maya Chami: live visuals
ABOUT MUNMA
Jawad Nawfal is a pioneer of Lebanon’s electronic/dance scene. Starting out as a DJ and event promoter in the late 90’s, he eventually moved on to production and composition in the early 2000’s, forming live electronic duos Ae_Quo and AEX with Lebanese musician Victor Bresse. Nawfal created MUNMA in the aftermath of Israel’s war on Lebanon in the summer of 2006 — this solo project explores oriental harmonies and rhythmical patterns, with a strong reliance on sampled traditional musical beds and excerpts from politicians’ speeches and radio broadcasts. In 2012, Jawad started working with Lebanese writer and slam poet Mazen el-Sayed aka El Rass, and the two musicians released two well receivedalbums which explore the darker sides of rap, reconfiguring the genre to include elements of bass and electronica. In the following years, Nawfal collaborated with Belgian electronic producer Cedrik Fermont, and released 4 albums on his label Syrphe Records with different contributors.
ABOUT FADI TABBAL
Fadi Tabbal is a musician, producer and sound engineer, known for his numerous contributions to Beirut’s alternative music scene by way of the specialized studio he opened in 2006, Tunefork.
Tabbal’s work as an engineer at Tunefork has secured its reputation as one of the most prominent studios in Beirut; the majority of the city’s alternative acts have passed through its doors. Fadi is a member of several Lebanese bands, including rock groups The Incompetents and Bunny Tylers, as well as experimental trio Under the Carpet. He collaborates frequently with singer/songwriter Youmna Saba, folk bands Safar and Ramly, and is a guest player on albums by experimental duo Praed and folk singer Sandmoon, among others. As a solo artist, he has released three albums entitled “On the Rooftop Looking Up” (Self-released 2013), “Museum of Disappearing Buildings” (Self-released 2015) and “How’s Annie” (Ruptured, 2016).
ABOUT MAYA CHAMI
Maya Chami is a practitioner in graphic design and digital arts. She received a Bachelor of Science in graphic design from the Lebanese American University. In 2006, she was selected to participate in the UNESCO online masters module on art, design and technology.
In 2011 she completed a Masters degree in digital arts at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London. She works in graphic design and digital arts on both commissioned and personal projects, and has participated in several design and digital arts events.
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