New music video by Interbellum!
“Ready to Dissolve” is the new single off Interbellum’s sophomore album Dead Pets, Old Griefs, released by Ruptured in October 2018.
Filmmaker Camille Cabbabé and the two leads snuck into the dilapidated Grand Theatre in Beirut on a sun-streaked April day – watch the haunting result below.
The album can be purchased via Bandcamp here.
Tag: Tunefork Studios
KOZO // Interview // 02 September 2019
Lebanese post-rock quintet Kozo were the guests of Ruptures in the studios of Radio Liban 96.2FM, for an interview covering their musical influences, as well as the recording and production of their first album Tokyo Metabolist Syndrome.
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Track listing:
1. Kozo
2. Kozo
3. Battles feat. Matias Aguayo
4. Tortoise
5. Death Grips
6. Brockhampton
7. Panda Bear
8. Kanye West feat. Justin Vernon
9. Do Make Say Think
10. My Bloody Valentine
11. Kozo
ALKO B // 2nd Ruptured Session // 05 August 2019
Lebanese musician Salim Naffah aka ALKO B was the guest of Ruptures on Radio Liban 96.2 FM, for an interview revolving around the making and production of his second solo album “Dreaming Is Not For Two”. Alko B performed several songs from his new album in the studio, accompanied by Fadi Tabbal from Tunefork Studios on live sound duties. Photos by Ziad Nawfal.
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Track listing:
1. Alko B
2. M. Ward
3. The Ventures
4. Timber Timbre
5. Bobby Vinton
6. Alko B LIVE *2
7. Martin Rev
8. Alko B LIVE *2
9. The Beach Boys
10. Alko B LIVE
11. Alko B
Press Review // Interbellum // Dead Pets, Old Griefs
A few weeks following the release of Lebanese indie band Interbellum‘s sophomore album “Dead Pets, Old Griefs” on Ruptured, here are some of the reviews that were written about this unique collection of songs:
x Read Lie In The Sound‘s review here
x Read I Can Guarantee‘s review here
x Read We All Want Someone To Shout For‘s review here
x Read Barrygruff Music Blog‘s review here
x Read Arab News‘s review here
x Read Scene Noise‘s review here
x Read Various Small Flames‘s review here
x Read The Revue‘s review here
x Read Indie For Bunnies‘s review here
x Read American Pancake‘s review here
x Read Mp3hugger‘s review here
x Read L’Orient Le Jour‘s review here
x Read GQ Middle East‘s review here
x Read We Love That‘s review here
NADINE SHAH // Ruptured Session // 11 May 2018
Ruptured had the privilege of hosting exceptional British musician Nadine Shah in the studios of Radio Liban 96.2 FM on Friday 11/05, for a radio session engineered by Fadi Tabbal from Tunefork Studios. Nadine Shah will perform a concert at Onomatopoeia The Music Hub on Saturday 12/05, featuring James Brown from UK band Pulled Part by Horses and Lebanese singer-songwriter Youmna Saba.
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POSTCARDS // 2nd Ruptured Session // 26 Jan 2018
For our second “Ruptured Session” of 2018, we were thrilled to welcome in the studios of Radio Liban 96.2FM Lebanese band POSTCARDS, consisting for this particular occasion of Julia Sabra (guitar & vocals), Marwan Tohme (guitar & backing vocals), and Pascal Semerdjian (synth & backing vocals). The three musicians spoke at length about the making of their most recent release “I’ll be here in the morning” (T3 Records + Ruptured, 2018), presented some of their favorite tracks, and performed two songs from the album.
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Ruptured Album Release // THE BUNNY TYLERS // Chance Meetings
The Bunny Tylers – Chance Meetings
CD & LP Release by Ruptured, January 2018
On celebrating cold tobacco and cheap aftershave, eternal sunsets and surfer suicides, Film Noir and Thomas Pynchon, and the mighty power of the drone…
The Bunny Tylers is a drone/ambient group from Beirut, Lebanon, whose core consists of guitarists Charbel Haber (Scrambled Eggs, Malayeen, Johnny Kafta’s Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra) and Fadi Tabbal (The Incompetents, Under the Carpet, Safar), often joined on stage by Pascal Semerdjian and Marwan Tohmé from folk band Postcards. Operating firmly outside of any musical trends, at the heart of Bunny Tylers is the desire to tie musical loose ends and threads derived as much from the two men’s solo records, as a very tangible teenage dream of remaking My Bloody Valentine’s “Loveless”.
The duo initially came together in 2013 to compose and record incidental music for Nadim Tabet and Karine Wehbe’s video essay “Summer of 91”. They began exploring different guitar bowing techniques, set amidst a loose and free-flowing musical frame, away from rigid compositional stratagems. Preoccupied with texture rather than finite structure, guitar drones and intricate pedal-work set the ambience and mood for Haber’s lyrics of self-reflection and existential bleakness. Love stories indeed, albeit ones engrossed with the inexorable progress of the Grim Reaper.
The Bunny Tylers’ first album, “Glitches & Drones 2013-2016”, was released by Ruptured in 2016. The duo’s second album was recorded by Benoit de Villeneuve (from Team Ghost and a collaborator of M83) in Paris in the summer of 2017. The CD version of the album was released during the 2017 edition of Wickerpark Festival, while LP and digital versions will be available starting January 2018.
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(2016 end-of-year lists) – FADI TABBAL
So, here we are again!
We asked some of our musician friends and collaborators to tell us about their 10 favorite albums of 2016.
FADI TABBAL (Bunny Tylers, The Incompetents, Under the Carpet)
Tim Hecker – Love Streams
Angel Olsen – My Woman
Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
Kevin Morby – Singing Saw
Whitney – Light Upon The Lake
Car Seat Headrest – Teens Of Denial
Mitzki – Puberty 2
Survive – Rr7349
Anna Meredith – Varmints
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David Bowie – Blackstar
Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition Project
Alex Cameron – Jumping The Shark
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SAFAR // Ruptured Session // 15 June 2015
Lebanese musicians Mayssa Jallad and Elie Abdelnour, aka folk duo SAFAR, were the guests of Ruptures for an interview and no less than four live performances of tracks taken from their first release, the “23 Kilograms” EP, as well as newer compositions. They were accompanied by Fadi Tabbal on guitar and various electronic contraptions.
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ruptures safar 15 june (part 1)
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ruptures safar 15 june (part 2)
Track listing:
Safar
Feist
The Beatles
Safar LIVE
Etta James
Jamiroquai
Safar LIVE
Feist
Norah Jones & Andre 3000
Safar LIVE
Fiona Apple
Safar LIVE
YOUMNA SABA // 3rd Ruptured Session // 15 December 2014
Lebanese folk singer/songwriter Youmna Saba was the guest of Ruptures, for an interview and live performance during which she played the entirety of her third and latest album, ‘Njoum’. She is accompanied by Lebanese musician and producer Fadi Tabbal on electric guitar and various sound treatments.
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