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

(2021 end-of-year lists) – STEPHANIE MERCHAK
It’s been a while (five good years actually) since we’ve done this, and so we’ve gone ahead and asked the musicians whom we worked with this year in some respect or other, to tell us about their favorite albums of 2021.
STEPHANIE MERCHAK
– Scanner: Wing Pinger
– Patrick R. Pärk: Sacred Winged Door
– Upside T-Rex Music: TwoDots Volume 7 (Original Soundtrack)
– Dream Theater: A View from The Top of The World
– Myéline: Tiny Windows
– Memory Scale: Soft Power
– Nils Petter Molvær: Stitches
– Emika & Paul Frick: In Parallel
– 2404R: False LP
– Hainbach: Schwebungssummer










Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Movement Radio 09 // 10 June 2021
Ziad Nawfal’s 9th monthly mix for Movement Radio in Athens – featuring music from Lebanon, Egypt, Indonesia, Germany, the UK, Canada 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. Stellar Banger – Intro [LB/DE]
2. Two or The Dragon – Dance Grooves for The Weary (Part I) [LB]
3. Jawad Nawfal – Between Scylla And Charybdis [LB]
4. Liliane Chlela – Moukassarat [LB]
5. Rêves Sonores – Seers Theme [CA]
6. Fadi Tabbal – On the Escape Boat [LB]
7. Etyen & Khansa – Athoubu Fih [LB]
8. Dwarfs of East Agouza – Camel Toe [EG/CA/US]
9. Ambulance vs Ambulance – From 1804 To Bearpit [UK]
10. TEDTEDTED – Cama [LB]
11. Nur Jaber – Black Potion [LB]
12. Stephanie Merchak – Kabau (Senyawa Rework) [ID/LB]
13 Bana Haffar – Assimilation [LB]

Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Movement Radio 07 // 08 April 2021
Ziad Nawfal’s 7th monthly mix for Movement Radio in Athens – featuring music from Morocco, Iran, the USA, Lebanon, Portugal, Egypt, Indonesia, Kuwait and Tunisia. This mix was commissioned and produced by Onassis Cultural Center, and presented for the first time in the frame of MOVEMENT RADIO.
1. Abdellah M. Hassak – Seven Heavens [MA]
2. Saint Abdullah – As Gently As The Steps Of Death (feat. Moor Mother) [IR/US]
3. Jawad Nawfal – Corps Amplifiés [LB]
4. Stéphanie Merchak – Espaces et Ombres [LB]
5. Mohammad Reza Mortazavi – Exploring [IR]
6. Victor Gama – Horizonte Suspenso #3 [PT]
7. Nur – Mediterranean [EG]
8. Senyawa – Menuju Muara (Safa Remix) [ID/LB]
9. Fatima Al Qadiri – Blajat Interlude [KW]
10. Safa – Particle Filtering Through A Great Elastic Wave [LB]
11. Sepehr – Neophyte Delight [IR]
12. Bikya [Maurice Louca / Mahmoud Refat / Mahmoud Waly] – Rokab [EG]
13. Azu Tiwaline – Tight Wind (feat. Cinna Peyghamy) [TN/IR]
14. FRKTL – Hverfa af himni heiðar stjörnur [EG]
Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Radio Ma3azef // 10 March 2021
Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Radio Ma3azef in Tunis – SENYAWA REDUX
A mix of tracks by Indonesian art-rock duo Senyawa from the last decade, including several excerpts from digital compilation “Alkisah Remixed”, released in February 2021 by Beirut labels Ruptured & Annihaya:
1. Senyawa – Fasih
2. Senyawa – Alkisah I (Cedrik Fermont Remix)
3. Stephen O’Malley & Senyawa – Bima dan Ular Naga, Part I
4. Senyawa – Di Kala Sudah
5. Senyawa – Istana (Aya Metwalli Remix)
6. Senyawa – Gugur
7. Senyawa – brønshøj 4
8. Senyawa – Kekuasaan (Anthony Sahyoun Remix) [Unreleased]
9. Senyawa – Kembali Ke Dunia (Return to The World)
10. Senyawa – Kabau (Stephanie Merchak Ambient Remix)
11. Wukir Suriyadi – Solo Performance in Bali
12. Senyawa – Kiamat (Jana Saleh Remix)
Ruptured + Annihaya Album Release // SENYAWA // Alkisah Remixed
Arriving February 21 on Ruptured + Annihaya.
Ruptured and Annihaya (as well as a hefty assortment of indie labels from all over the place, including Jordan’s Drowned By Locals and Bahrain’s Qarar) are taking part in the release of SENYAWA’s incredible new album “Alkisah”, on February 21st.
Order from Bandcamp HERE and HERE
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Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Worldwide FM // 30 December 2020
Ziad Nawfal’s guest mix for Radio Alhara x The Ballroom Blitz’s takeover for Worldwide FM – all selections are by Lebanese musicians:
1. Jad Atoui – Zikr
2. Sary Moussa – Aristophanes*213
3. El Rass & Munma – Freestyle [Ruptured Session]
4. Hadi Zeidan – Mabrouk Mabrouk
5. Kid Fourteen – Ice in My Eyes
6. The Incompetents – 2 HJ
7. Kinematik – Lalochezia [Ruptured Session]
8. Zalfa – Law Ma
9. Liliane Chlela – 2022
10. Rise 1969 – 3Jane Tessier-Ashpool
11. Stephanie Merchak – Und meine Antwort war nein
12. TEDTEDTED – Wwhl
13. Tarek Atoui – Un-drum #3 [Ruptured Session]
14. Marc Codsi – 1979
15. Jerusalem In My Heart – Kol El ‘Aalam O’youn
16. Bana Haffar – Exo
Ziad Nawfal DJ Mix for Radio Raheem // 24 July 2020
Ziad Nawfal’s live 60-minute mix recorded at/for The Ballroom Blitz‘s weekly takeover at Milano’s Radio Raheem. With artists from Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt, Tunisia and Sudan:
- Muqata’a
- Jad Atoui
- Stephanie Merchak
- Bachar Mar-Khalife [Sama’ Remix]
- Deena Abdelwahed [Dawan Remix]
- Sufyvn
- Zeid Hamdan
- Hadi Zeidan
- Ceasar K + Gme
- Rise 1969
- Diamond Setter
- Stephanie Merchak
- The Bunny Tylers [Jad Taleb Remix]
- Soapkills
- Index/Left [Ziad Moukarzel & Jawad Nawfal]
- Mutamassik
- Katibe Khamseh
- Rise 1969
- Munma
- Ceasar K + Gme
Watch video here
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ZIAD NAWFAL // MusicMap Soundscape 015 // June 2018
Track listing: 1. El Rass & Munma – Kashghara (Adam, Darwin & The Penguin, 2015) 2. Kinematik – Lalochezia (Ala’, 2017) 3. Calamita – FTC (Calamita, 2018) 4. Fadi Tabbal – Crystal Palace (Museum of Disappearing Buildings, 2015) 5. Youmna Saba – Nafas (Njoum, 2014) 6. Jad Atoui – Zikr (Unreleased track, 2016) 7. The Bunny Tylers – Mothers Make Murderers (Glitches & Drones, 2016) 8. Kid Fourteen – It’s A Lovely Night (Dream Kids Never Sleep, 2016) 9. Scrambled Eggs – Building A Nest (Unreleased track, 2013) 10. KOZO 構造 – Don’t Leave, Kurokawa! (Beirut Wave Three, 2017) 11. Mme Chandelier – Minimal Potato (Post Coital Tristesse, 2016) 12. Radiokvm – Alpha Apparatus (Issrar, 2014) 13. Stephanie Merchak – Und Meine Antwort War Nein (Eine Frage, 2018) 14. Munma – Cadavre Exquis (Three Voices, 2016)


