(2025 end-of-year lists) – PREFACES

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. 

PREFACES (Charif Megarbane, Salim Naffah, and Pascal Semerdjian)

(Charif’s picks)
Guess What – Solar Boats
Florence Adooni – AOEIU (An Ordinary Exercise in Unity)
Dana & Alden – Speedo
Sven Wunder – Daybreak
Stereolab – Instant Holograms on Metal Film

(Salim’s picks)
Snakeskin – We live in sand
Mac DeMarco – Guitar
Aviram – Drag Me Down
Charif Megarbane – Hawalat
SANAM – Sametou Sawtan

(Pascal’s picks)
Smote – Songs from the Free House
Sary Moussa – Wind, Again
Yo La Tengo – Old Joy (Original Soundtrack)
Geese – Getting Killed
Michel Maouad – Good Thing We Cleaned The Stairs


Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Radio Alhara // 19 October 2022

Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Radio Alhara in Bethlehem, Palestine, with music from Lebanon, Egypt, and the USA.

  1. Heroes and Villains – Snake and feather [LB]
  2. Cosmic Analog Ensemble – S’aventurer [LB]
  3. Interbellum – Another day [LB]
  4. Préfaces [Charif Megarbane, Salim Naffah & Pascal Semerdjian] – Embarator [LB]
  5. The New Year – Snow [US]
  6. Kid Fourteen – Blood thick silence [LB]
  7. Toni Geitani – Raboukom [LB]
  8. Nadah el-Shazly – Afqid ad dakhira [EG]
  9. El Rass & Munma – Return of the penguin [LB]
  10. The Bunny Tylers – Hello your grace [LB]
  11. Oiseaux-Tempete & The Bunny Tylers – Little known ending fading away [LB/FR]
  12. Radwan Ghazi Moumneh – Ya dam’at al ‘ain [LB/CA]
  13. Tony Elieh & Sharif Sehnaoui – Woe to him [LB]


Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Movement Radio // 23 May 2022

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

  1. Préfaces – El Jaguar [LB]
  2. Kinematik – Al Kafila [LB]
  3. Fadi Tabbal – And Then… [LB]
  4. Postcards – Angel [LB]
  5. Serge Yared – Deliberate Depression [LB]
  6. Maurice Louca – El-Gullashah (Foul Tongue) [EG]
  7. Raed Yassin – A Fistful Of Stardust [LB]
  8. Muqata’a – Ikmal إِكمَال [PS]
  9. Jawad Nawfal – Nawa Athar 0 [LB/EG]
  10. Stéphanie Merchak – my eyes are bleeding green rivers [LB]
  11. Jad Atoui – The Last Bloom [LB]
  12. Thoom – Re-Trace [LB]
  13. Tarkamt – Outer Gateways [EG]
  14. Daou – Sauldre [LB]
  15. FRKTL – Sidereal II [EG]
  16. Saint Abdullah – Sound, Sound, And Only Sound [IR]
  17. Mayssa Jallad & Khaled Allaf – Madina Min Baeed [LB]


Photo by Ziad Nawfal

Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Radio Alhara // 16 June 2021

Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Radio Alhara in Bethlehem – Music from Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt, Switzerland, Canada and the USA:

  1. Postcards – Home Is So Sad
  2. Twyn Towers – Ave Pariah
  3. Préfaces – El Jaguar
  4. Wake Island – Sleep 2.0
  5. Pomme Rouge – Honey Crisp (Etyen Rework)
  6. Rise 1969 – Vah Naboris (Etyen Remix)
  7. Tryangle Man – Esmeray
  8. Yasmine Hamdan – Al Jamilat (Matias Aguayo Remix)
  9. Liliane Chlela – Moukassarat
  10. Jana Saleh – Al Atlal (Om Kalthoum Rework) [excerpt]
  11. Kamilya Jubran & Werner Hasler – Wa Part 1 [excerpt]
  12. Praed Orchestra! – Mirage 72
  13. Nadah el Shazly – Barzakh
  14. Maurice Louca – The Palm Of A Ghost (feat. Nadah el Shazly)
  15. Rêves Sonores – Seers Theme