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Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Movement Radio // 23 May 2022

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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.

  1. Préfaces – El Jaguar [LB]
  2. Kinematik – Al Kafila [LB]
  3. Fadi Tabbal – And Then… [LB]
  4. Postcards – Angel [LB]
  5. Serge Yared – Deliberate Depression [LB]
  6. Maurice Louca – El-Gullashah (Foul Tongue) [EG]
  7. Raed Yassin – A Fistful Of Stardust [LB]
  8. Muqata’a – Ikmal إِكمَال [PS]
  9. Jawad Nawfal – Nawa Athar 0 [LB/EG]
  10. Stéphanie Merchak – my eyes are bleeding green rivers [LB]
  11. Jad Atoui – The Last Bloom [LB]
  12. Thoom – Re-Trace [LB]
  13. Tarkamt – Outer Gateways [EG]
  14. Daou – Sauldre [LB]
  15. FRKTL – Sidereal II [EG]
  16. Saint Abdullah – Sound, Sound, And Only Sound [IR]
  17. Mayssa Jallad & Khaled Allaf – Madina Min Baeed [LB]
Photo by Ziad Nawfal

(2021 end-of-year lists) – STEPHANIE MERCHAK

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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

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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]

Photo by Nour Raad

 

Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Movement Radio 07 // 08 April 2021

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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]

Photo by Nour Raad

Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Radio Ma3azef // 10 March 2021

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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

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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.

To accompany our co-release of “Alkisah”, we’ve commissioned remixes from some of our favorite contributors: Anthony Sahyoun, Aya Metwalli, C-drík, Hatem Imam, Jad Atoui, Jana Saleh, Jawad Nawfal, Safa, Stephanie Merchak and Ziad Moukarzel.

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Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Worldwide FM // 30 December 2020

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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

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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:

  1. Muqata’a
  2. Jad Atoui
  3. Stephanie Merchak
  4. Bachar Mar-Khalife [Sama’ Remix]
  5. Deena Abdelwahed [Dawan Remix]
  6. Sufyvn
  7. Zeid Hamdan
  8. Hadi Zeidan
  9. Ceasar K + Gme
  10. Rise 1969
  11. Diamond Setter
  12. Stephanie Merchak
  13. The Bunny Tylers [Jad Taleb Remix]
  14. Soapkills
  15. Index/Left [Ziad Moukarzel & Jawad Nawfal]
  16. Mutamassik
  17. Katibe Khamseh
  18. Rise 1969
  19. Munma
  20. Ceasar K + Gme

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ZIAD NAWFAL // MusicMap Soundscape 015 // June 2018

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MusicMap’s ‘Soundscape’ series is a brilliant way to keep up with local music scenes and global trends. Every few weeks, the people behind this amazing platform visit a different country and ask someone familiar with the scene to serve up a mix of the finest local sounds…

“This month we’re visiting Lebanon for our first Soundscape from the Middle East. Our guide this time is Beirut-based DJ, promoter and producer Ziad Nawfal, co-founder of ground-breaking independent label Ruptured and managing director of Irtijal, the country’s first experimental music festival. Ziad Nawfal has spent his career championing independent Lebanese music via his ‘Ruptures’ and ‘Decalages’ shows on Radio Lebanon, so we knew we were in for a treat with his Soundscape mix…”

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)

(2012 end-of-year lists) – STEPHANIE MERCHAK

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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.

Stephanie Merchak (musician)
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1- Dictaphone: Poems From A Rooftop (2012)
2- Amiina: Puzzle (2010)
3- 22-20s: Self-titled (2005)
4- She & Him: Volume Two (2010)
5- Miles Davis: Ascenseur pour l’échafaud (1957)
6- Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht; Variations, Op.31 / Herbert Von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker (1975/1990)
7- Tomandandy: Resident Evil, Afterlife OST (2010)
8- Waldeck: Ballroom Stories (2007)
9- Danny Elfman: Alice In Wonderland OST (2010)
10- Trifonic: Ninth Wave (2012)