A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal โ this broadcast features a guest mix by Lebanese dreampop duo SNAKESKIN (Julia Sabra & Fadi Tabbal). Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.
Snakeskin is a Beirut-based duo making electronic dreampop that incorporates ambient, industrial, and experimental elements. The project brings together producer and musician Fadi Tabbal and singer songwriter Julia Sabra, also a member of indie trio Postcards.
The duoโs third album We live in sand will be released on October 10, 2025 as a co-release between Ruptured and Beacon Sound. Written as the war in Gaza spread to Lebanon, it is their starkest and most immediate work to date, combining industrial beats, ambient dirges, and Juliaโs distinctive vocals.
TRACK LISTING:
1- Snakeskin: Ready
2- Nadah El Shazly: Kaabi Ali
3- Lucrecia Dalt: Caes (feat. Camille Mandoki)
4- SANAM: Goblin
5- Snakeskin: October sun
6- Kelly Moran: Donโt Trust Mirrors
7- Sary Moussa: Everywhere at Once
8- Jerusalem In My Heart: Ana Lisan Wahad (feat. Farida Amadou & Pierre-Guy Blanchard)
9- Dina El Wedidi: The Moon
10- Gizzmo: A Change in the Seasons
11- Snakeskin: Blindsided
12- Mabe Fratti: Kravitz
13- Postcards: Poison
14- Blood Orange: Look at You
15- Snakeskin: Black water
A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal โ this broadcast features a guest mix by Lebanese musician SARY MOUSSA. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.
Sary Moussa is a Lebanese electronic musician, sound designer, producer, and engineer, deeply rooted in Beirutโs experimental and underground music scenes. Emerging in the late 2000s under the moniker radiokvm, he released his debut full-length album, Issrar, in 2014 on the Ruptured label. Performing under his own name, Moussa followed up with Imbalance in 2020 on Nicolas Jaarโs Other People imprint: an album shaped by childhood memories and regional soundscapes, blending Greek-Catholic chants, ambient noise, and the sonic imprint of southern Lebanon.
Moussa’s work is characterized by a fusion of drone-driven compositions and dance floor-ready electronica, emphasizing generative sound design and intricate sonic textures. His latest album Wind, Again was released by Other People in summer 2025. Beyond his solo projects, Moussa is an active collaborator across various artistic disciplines. He has composed music for theater, dance, film, and art installations.
TRACK LISTING:
Sary Moussa – Everywhere at once
Two or the Dragon – Dance Grooves for the Weary pt. 1
Cinna Peyghami – Sympathetic Fillings
Jerusalem in my heart – Wa Taโatalat Loughat Al Kalam pt.1
Aho Ssan and Nicolas Jaar – Le Tremblement
Amina Hocine – ฤtamลn I
Maurice Louca – Yaraโ (Fire Flies)
Biliana Voutchkova and Phill Niblock – Biliana
Mana – Archipelaghi pt.2
Hania Rani – Dreamy
Charbel Haber, Nicolas Jaar and Sary Moussa – Crashing waves dance to the rhythm set by the broadcast journalist revealing the tragedies of the day pt.4
Asil Ensemble – Free group improvisation
Sary Moussa – White Dust
Fadi Tabbal – (Keep Beating)
Charbel Haber and Sary Moussa – Pity City (unreleased)
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 โ 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 soundโblending 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 โ 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 Lebanonโs ongoing struggles, using sound to collapse past and present into a powerful and immersive listening experience. Highly recommended for fans of Fennesz, Tim Hecker, รliane Radigue, and Tarek Atoui.
Both albums are now available through Ruptured Records. We invite you to explore these worksโeach a testament to strength, collaboration, and the transformative potential of sound.
Ziad Nawfalโs monthly broadcast forย Radio Alhara in Bethlehem, Palestine โ playing Lebanese musician & producer Fadi Tabbalโs latest album in full, along with a selection of some of his recent production work.
Track List:
FADI TABBAL โ I RECOGNIZE YOU FROM MY SKETCHES
1. (keep beating)
2. Absence or death
3. Oh Heart!
4. Oh heart, are you burning
5. All those nights
6. You were right
7. (keep pumping)
8. When we swam together
9. (keep thumping)
10. I am all that is left
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11. Snakeskin (Julia Sabra & Fadi Tabbal) – Snakeskin
12. Elyse Tabet – Sequel / live to tell (with Nadine Makarem)
13. Charbel Haber & Fadi Tabbal – La certitude de lโaube
14. Charbel Haber, Joseph Ghosn, Fadi Tabbal – In A Technicolor Dream, You and I Were Floating in The Caspian Sea
15. Mayssa Jallad – Holiday Inn March 21 to 29
16. Postcards – Coins (with Sary Moussa)
Releasing November 3rd, 2023 โ a joint release by Ruptured and Six of Swords
Lebanese singer/songwriter Mayssa Jallad’s first solo album. A poetic reflection on Beirut’s War of the Hotels, one of the bloodiest events of Lebanon’s Civil War.
The vinyl edition of โMarjaa: The Battle of the Hotelsโ is co-released by Beirut-based label Ruptured and UK newcomer Six of Swords. It is pressed in a limited edition of 300 copies, with a limited D2C edition containing download coupon and a full-colour, double-sided 34 x 68cm art print on 150gsm wood-free paper with map, 3D diagrams and timeline depicting the historical events of the battle.ย ย
Mayssa will play a short European tour in November, including performances at Oslo World in Sweden and Le Guess Who? in The Netherlands.ย
“In the end, the album, like the city on which it is based, feels like an infinite loop of history, relayed through the brave yet saintly voice of an artist who has taken the task of documenting the past through music.” – Christina Hazboun, Bandcamp daily.bandcamp.com/features/mayssa-jallad-marjaa-battle-of-the-hotels-interviewย ย
โItโs an album with everything; vital history, experimental melodicism, inventive structures, mountains of emotion, and Jalladโs stunning voice. There is so much to learn, so much to hear.โ – Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis
“In an overwhelmingly creative and critical act, Mayssa Jallad turns the destruction of the Lebanese Civil War into a stunning, two-sided album driven by poetic songwriting mixed with historical narration, lush strings and synths, gentle drones, and her incredible vocal prowess.” – Maha El-Nabawy, SceneNoise
Releasing March 3rd, 2023 on Ruptured Records: Lebanese singer/songwriter Mayssa Jallad’s first solo album. A poetic reflection on Beirut’s War of the Hotels, one of the bloodiest events of Lebanon’s Civil War.
โMarjaa: The Battle of the Hotelsโ is a concept album born of the idea of merging singer/songwriter Mayssa Jalladโs two vocations: music and urban research/architectural history. Written in collaboration with producer Fadi Tabbal, the music builds upon Tabbalโs spatial approach to sound and Jalladโs research on Beirutโs Hotel District.
The album is a reference to Jalladโs Historic Preservation master’s ย thesis, in which she detailed the history of the โBattle of the Hotelsโ, a 5-months battle that took place in Beirut at the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War, from October 22nd, 1975 to March 29th, 1976.
Jallad saw architecture as a main protagonist of the battle, as she discovered it was the first high rise urban battle in the world. The close of the battle resulted in the 15-year Green Line, an urban rift which split Beirut into โEast and Westโ, restricting movement and communication and creating a violent divide that still resonates today.
“Marjaa” comprises two parts. Part A: Dahaliz, is a stroll in the city, where Jallad tries (and fails) to follow an old map. Musician Youmna Saba is a companion in this journey of remembering the once winding corridors (โDahalizโ) of the city, destroyed by new developments since the 1960s. Empty skyscrapers propel her onto a past filled with the violence of snipers, and a present filled with the glamorous injustice of empty luxury real estate endorsed by powerful warlords-turned-politicians.
In Part B: Maaraka, Jallad inhabits the building of the Battle of the Hotels, as its events unfold. She calls the fighting militias the Blues and Reds, respectively the Lebanese Front (Christian Nationalists) and the Lebanese National Movement (Pro-Palestinian leftists), leveling the playing field, and drawing a map of the battle through songwriting. Sary Moussa produces the conclusion of the battle in โHoliday Inn (March 21 to 29)โ, which ends with the ultimate severance of the city of Beirut.
The music caters to post-war youth who have never been taught this difficult history. Once we consider the โBattle of the Hotelsโ as our common heritage, it provides an opportunity to teach the value of civil peace. It is also a call to protest for the renewal, rather than the recycling of the political class that has once destroyed the country and holds us, to this day, hostage of its violence.
Featuring Youmna Saba, Marwan Tohme, Pascal Semerdjian, Julia Sabra, Farah Kaddour, Sary Moussa, Yara Asmar and Fadi Tabbal.
Available as a digital album and limited edition vinyl LP (in collaboration with Six of Swords in the UK).
Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Movement Radio in Athens, featuring music from Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, Tunisia, Iran, the UK and the USA. This mix was commissioned and produced by Onassis Cultural Center, and presented for the first time in the frame of MOVEMENT RADIO.
1. SANDY CHAMOUN – Ahlam al khayal [LB]
2. BENNU [PIE ARE SQUARED & PYLON&ON&ON] – Asteroid Walk [EG]
3. 700 BLISS [DJ HARAM & MOOR MOTHER] – Basic [US/UK]
4. SAFA – Bel Abbes [LB]
5. POSTCARDS – Coins (with Sary Moussa) [LB]
6. TEDTEDTED – Dancerep [LB]
7. AZU TIWALINE – Deep Theko [TN]
8. MUQATA’A – Dijla Wal Fada’ [PS]
9. MUSLIMGAUZE – An End [UK]
10. MOHAMMAD REZA MORTAZAVI – Exploring [IR]
11. JULMUD – Fel Bo2s [PS]
12. TOUMBA – Floating on The Dead Sea [JO]
13. SOTE – Forced Absence [IR]
14. ASIFEH – Oxygen Deluxe [PS]
Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Movement Radio in Athens, featuring music from Lebanon, Egypt, Belgium and Canada. This mix was commissioned and produced by Onassis Cultural Center, and presented for the first time in the frame of MOVEMENT RADIO.
Jerusalem In My Heart – Ana Lisan Wahad (feat. Farida Amadou & Pierre-Guy Blanchard) [LB/CA/BE]
Releasing 14 October 2022 on Ruptured + Beacon Sound: SNAKESKIN is the first full-length by mainstays of the Lebanese music scene JULIA SABRA and FADI TABBAL. Snakeskin marks the sixth collaboration between Ruptured and Portland-based indie label Beacon Sound, and is the second release in our Corrosion Series, following Anthony Sahyoun’s solo album Proof By Infinite Descentin 2021.
Snakeskin was born in the aftermath of the August 4 2020 port explosion in Beirut, which decimated several of the cityโs neighborhoods โ it is a reflection on what it means to feel at home in a place where โthere is no rebirth, no renewal,โ as the artists put it. Shapeshifting above ambient and industrial undercurrents, the album is visionary electronic dream pop, utilizing tape loops, synthesizers, vocals, and drum machines, combining Juliaโs pop-inspired melodies and choral roots (an echo from her religious upbringing) with Fadiโs affinity for minimalism and musique concrรจte.
“The moon speaks in tongues we can’t discern / A plastic dove hangs from a cypress branch / Haven’t you heard? / Nothing grows here anymore / The air is burnt / Nothing grows…”
Recorded by Fadi Tabbal, mixed by Sary Moussa and Fadi at Tunefork Studios in Beirut.
Drum samples by Pascal Semerdjian. Cover photo by Lujain Jo. Graphic design by Josette ‘ZOoz’ Khalil. Mastered by Rashad Becker.
Available as a digital album and limited edition vinyl LP with download code.
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