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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
The Ruptured Sessions Volume 2
[By Ziad Nawfal]
A CD compilation gathering some of the most notorious protagonists of Beirut’s experimental music scene, captured live in the studios of Radio Lebanon. “The Ruptured Sessions” is a series of live recordings that take place in the studios of Radio Lebanon 96.2FM, during Ziad Nawfal’s weekly Ruptures program. These recordings focus on musicians from Lebanon’s alternative music scenes (alternative folk & rock, electronica, improvisation, etc.), as well as visiting foreign musicians.
Thomas Millroth is a Swedish writer and art critic. Nowadays he runs the Olof Bright label, alongside Swedish reeds player and improviser Mats Gustafsson. Thomas reviewed volume 2 of CD series The Ruptured Sessions for the very fabulous music blog Soundofmusic, on December 1st, 2010. Unfortunately for readers from this part of the world, Thomas’s review is in Swedish. It’s never too late for a trip to Scandinavia, is what we are thinking.
Lebanese rock band WHITE TREES, featuring Paul Tyan on vocals and guitar and Carl Gerges (from the band Mashrou’ Leila) on electronic percussion, in an interview and mini-concert on Ruptures 96.2FM.
Ecouter:
White Trees 1
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White Trees 2
Track listing:
Radiohead
Kasabian
Arctic Monkeys
The Beatles
Air
Philippe Manasseh and Nadim Maghzal, the founders of Lebanese-Canadian indie rock band INTENSIVE CARE, interviewed and caught live at Radio Liban 96.2FM.
Listen:
ICU part 1
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ICU part 2
Track listing:
Clues
Patrick Watson
Zeroes
Parlovr
Besnard Lakes
Grizzly Bear
An interview with RADWAN GHAZI MOUMNEH, musician (Jerusalem In My Heart), sound engineer, producer (Clues, Land of Kush), founder of Montreal studio Hotel2Tango in 2005. Radwan is joined by Pierre-Guy Blanchard, one of his bandmates from Jerusalem In My Heart. Fadi Tabbal from The Incompetents also makes a brief appearance in this broadcast, which ends with a live performance by Lebanese indie rock band SCRAMBLED EGGS (Charbel Haber – guitar; Tony Elieh – bass; Malek Rizkallah – drums), in support of their concert at The Basement on 27 December. A good way to round off the year 2009!!
Listen:
Radwan SE part 1
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Radwan SE part 2
Track listing:
Feu Thérese
Pacha
De La Caucase
Clues
Scrambled Eggs LIVE *X to B
Scrambled Eggs LIVE *Building a nest
The Incompetents
Scrambled Eggs LIVE *Murder
An interview and live performance by STÉPHANE RIVES, musician, sound engineer and promoter, and a regular contributor to Irtijal Festival.
Listen:
ruptures steph rives I
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ruptures steph rives II
Track listing:
Anton Webern
Giacinto Scelsi
Morton Subotnick
Gérard Grisey
Ryoji Ikeda
Fareeq El Atrash (whose name is a pun on famous Arabic singer Fareed el Atrache) is a Lebanese hip hop band consisting of rappers Edouard Abbas and Nasser Shorbaji, with John Imad Nasr on bass, Ghassan Khayyat aka Goo on guitar and keyboards, and Fayez Zouheiry aka FZ holding it down on beatbox duties. In addition to playing three wonderfully laid-back tracks live in the studios of Radio Lebanon, they offered a selection of their favorite tunes, and presented their upcoming concert at Beirut’s The Basement.
Track listing:
Fareeq El Atrash
SUGARHILL GANG
SLY & THE FAMILY STONE
Fareeq El Atrash LIVE
BOB JAMES
FUNKADELIC
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
Fareeq El Atrash LIVE
ZIAD AL-RAHBANI
THE ROOTS
Fareeq El Atrash LIVE
JAY-Z
Interview and live performance by ZIAD SAAD aka POP WILL SAVE US. Lebanese promoter and musician Serge Yared joined the broadcast to talk about his Crate Sessions concert series at Walimat restaurant in Beirut.
Listen:
Ziad Saad 1
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Ziad Saad 2
Track listing:
Pop Will Save Us *2
Le Tigre
Omar Khorshid
Pop Will Save Us LIVE
Omar Khorshid
Alan Vega
Pop Will Save Us LIVE
Suicide
Pop Will Save Us LIVE
Pop Will Save Us
Interview and live performance by Lebanese guitarist-improviser Sharif Sehnaoui, founder and organiser of experimental music festival Irtijal and Al Maslakh music label.
Track listing:
Sharif Sehnaoui LIVE
Aaly Trio feat. Ken Vandermark
Scrambled Eggs feat. Joseph Ghosn & Abdallah Ko
Sharif Sehnaoui LIVE
This band needs very little in the way of introduction. Recent winners of the 96.2FM music contest, fresh from a string of concerts in the south of Lebanon, truly outstanding neo-rockers Mashrou’ Leila graced the studios of Radio Lebanon with an impromptu interview/mini-concert. Present in the studio were violin player Haig Papazian, guitarist Andre Chedid (playing acoustic), drummer Carl Gerges (on djembe), guitarist Firas Abou Fakher (on tambourine), vocalist Hamed Sinno… and of course indispensable sound engineer Fadi Tabbal.
Listen:
Mashrou3 1
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Mashrou3 2
Track listing:
Mashrou’ Leila
Kasabian
Arctic Monkeys
Pink Martini
Neyssatou
Mashrou’ Leila LIVE
Erik Truffaz
Mashrou’ Leila LIVE
Sarya el Sawass
Nahawand
El Gits Band
Jadal
Mashrou’ Leila LIVE
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