Lebanese independent music label // Radio show // Promoter // DJ sets
We asked some of our musician friends and collaborators to tell us about their 10 favorite albums of 2016.
SANDRA ARSLANIAN (Sandmoon)
Angel Olsen – My Woman
Lisa Hannigan – At Swim
Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
David Bowie – Blackstar
Bon Iver – 22, A Million
Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
James Blake – The Colour In Anything
Wilco – Schmilco
Neko Case/ kd Lang/ Laura Veirs – Case/Lang/Veirs
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Lebanese singer and musician Sandra Arslanian aka Sandmoon was the guest of Ruptures on Radio Liban 96.2 FM, for an interview revolving around the making and production of her three albums, “Raw”, “Home”, and “In The End”.
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.
Sandra Arslanian (musician, Sandmoon)
1- Grizzly Bear: Shields
2- Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
3- Patrick Watson: Adventures In Your Own Backyard
4- Leonard Cohen: Old Ideas
5- Other Lives: Mind The Gap EP
6- Lou Doillon: Places
7- Cat Power: Sun
8- Sarah Blasko: I Awake
9- Regina Spektor: What We Saw From The Cheap Seats
10- Evening Hymns: Spectral Dusk
I asked some of my favorite musicians from Beirut and beyond, to tell me what their favorite records of 2011 were…
Sandra Arslanian: musician (Sandmoon)
1- Beirut: The Rip Tide
2- Lisa Hannigan: Passenger
3- Bright Eyes: The People’s Key
4- Mirel Wagner: No Death
5- The Dø: Both Ways Open Jaws
6- Wye Oak: Civilian
7- Feist: Metals
8- Wilco: The Whole Love
9- The Incompetents: We’re Really Important Back Home
10- Miles Kane: Colour Of The Trap
Singer/songwriter Sandra Arslanian, aka SANDMOON, was the guest of Ruptures to present the release of her first album, RAW. Accompanied by guitarist Elia Monsef, she performed three excerpts from the album, live inthe studios of Radio Lebanon. Sandmoon was one of the finalists of Radio Liban 96.2FM ‘Nouvelles Musiques’ competition, which took place in 2009 and saw a host of young Lebanese artists sending their demos to Radio Lebanon.
Listen:
Sandmoon 1 + Sandmoon 2
Track listing:
Sandmoon
Syd Matters
Radiohead
Emily Jane White
dEUS
Beth Gibbons
Angus & Julia Stone
