Shatr Collective – Ruptured Music

A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.

1. Marmalsana [Burkhard Beins, Tony Elieh & Maurice Louca] – Inundo

2. Youmna Saba – Akaleel

3. Yara Asmar – Are These Your Hands? Would You Like Them Back? (With Majd Chidiac)

4. Marmalsana [Burkhard Beins, Tony Elieh & Maurice Louca] – Alveno

5. Elyse Tabet [with Pascal Semerdjian & Yara Asmar] – Bright Bells (Bana Haffar Remix)

6. Liliane Chlela – Bza2

7. Safa – Grounds

8. Nstant [Stephanie Merchak & Nour Sokhon] – Floating Like Particles In The Air

9. Sote – Kangaroo Court

10. Anthony Sahyoun – Khifat Al-Atraf (with Firas al Hallak)

11. Munma – Le garde du coeur

12. Mazen El Sayed & Jawad Nawfal – Pastless

13. Shatr Collective – Kafas

Releasing August 23rd, 2024 on Ruptured Records:

“Poppies in October” is a collection of poetry and music that questions and explores matters of language, violence, and the intertwined fates of Palestine and Lebanon, with particular focus on the now almost-year-long Genocide in Gaza.

SHATR COLLECTIVE is donating all proceeds from the sales of this album to ULYP Gaza Student Emergency Fund, supporting Gazan medical students. Please consider giving what you can (more info at the link below).

The brainchild of Sarah Huneidi, Nadine Makarem, and Theresa Sahyoun, Shatr Collective aims to excite, maintain, and nurture the culture of poetry in Beirut, and showcase modes of expression where poetics are allowed to flourish.

Poppies in October (borrowed from Sylvia Plath’s eponymous poem) joins traditional and popular Palestinian literature with texts written by Sahyoun and Makarem, set to an original soundtrack by Huneidi.

The written works are a tribute to the survivors and martyrs of the genocide in Gaza. Most of the texts were conceived and written in times of heightened emotion and barely underwent any editing process.

The music is a merger of original production and sound clips from historical, literary & media sources, with the intent to encapsulate the chaos of the passing days amid a context of defiance and tragedy.

Currently available on digital platforms and Ruptured’s Bandcamp page as a pay-as-you-will album. Donate as generously as you can.

Recorded by Anthony Sahyoun at Tunefork Studios, Beirut, Lebanon.
Produced by Anthony Sahyoun & Shatr Collective.
SHATR artwork and album design by Farah Fayyad.