Ruptured
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On his fifth solo album "Subject to Potential Errors and Distortions', Lebanese producer, engineer, and musician Fadi Tabbal delves deeper into the theme of alienation in a suffocating city.Visit product page →
Composed and conceived almost entirely at his home in Beirut during Covid-19 quarantine, the record is his most intimate yet.
While his previous solo work consisted solely of guitar pieces, this time Tabbal adds tape loops, vocal samples and synthesizers to his sound palette in an attempt to convey the subjectivity of memory and our tendency to write and rewrite history according to the present.
The result is seven pieces that veer between minimalism and ambient music akin to recent outings by Pan American's Mark Nelson and mid-period Stars of the Lid.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. The New and Improved Guide to Birdwatching Vol.1
2. On the Escape Boat
3. Cheap Triptych Photography
4. The New and Improved Guide to Birdwatching Vol.2
Side B:
5. Ceremony by the Sea
6. The New and Improved Guide to Birdwatching Vol.3
7. The Sidewalk at Night -
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Third solo album from Fadi Tabbal, lead guitarist with Lebanese psychedelic rock band The Incompetents and various others. This album continues further the work of sound exploration through guitar treatments, which began with 'On the Rooftop Looking Up' (2013) - a finely-devised interaction of ambient soundscapes with John Fahey-inspired acoustic meanderings - and developed further on 2015's 'Museum of Disappearing Buildings' - an interplay of ambient guitar drones and grainy electronics.
For his third album, Tabbal continues further his exploration of electronics, beats and synthetic sounds through his guitar. The single, 32-minute track brings to mind the early work of sonic mavericks Ben Frost, Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin. Recorded live in one take without any cuts or overdubs.
Tracklisting:
1:How's Annie -
Sold outFadi Tabbal, lead guitarist with Lebanese psychedelic rock band The Incompetents and various other alternative outfits, releases his second solo album, 'Museum of Disappearing Buildings', in November 2015. This album continues further the work of sound exploration through guitar treatments, which began with 'On the Rooftop Looking Up' in 2013.Visit product page →
While the young guitarist's first album featured a finely-devised interaction of ambient soundscapes and John Fahey-inspired finger-picking acoustic meanderings, this second solo outing adopts a different approach: it relies on an interplay of ambient guitar drones and grainy electronics, which recalls to a degree the work of early Krautrock vanguard artists from the 1970's, the leftfield exploration of British electro-acoustic practitioners from the mid-1970's, as well as the radical works of American minimalistic composers from the 1960's.
Similarly to his first outing, Tabbal preferred a radical and direct approach to composition and recording, opting for the intimacy and self-reflection of home recordings, rather than the traditional environment of a recording studio. At the heart of the album, resides one unifying concept, which finds its way into the resulting musical bed: the sketches and impossible structures and urban configurations of Russian paper architects Brodsky and Utkin.
Tracklisting:
1. A Bridge
2. A Glass Tower
3. A Hill With A Hole
4. A Bridge Across the Precipice
5. Doll's House
6. Wandering Turtle in a Maze of a Big City
7. A Bridge Across the Precipice in the High Mountains
8. A Monument of the Year 2000
9. Crystal Palace
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Sold outLebanese musician, producer and sound engineer Fadi Tabbal's first solo release, and consists of guitar pieces ranging from stripped acoustics to ambient/shoegazing-inspired treatments.Visit product page →
Often referred to as 'the hardest-working man in Lebanon's alternative music scene,' Tabbal relocated to Beirut in 2006, following studies in sound engineering in Montreal, Canada; he promptly established Tunefork Recording Studios, a specialized work-space which offers customized services ranging from full band recordings, live sound, production and music composition.
Tabbal is a full-time member of several Lebanese bands, including psychedelic rock band The Incompetents, experimental rock quartet XEFM, and drone unit Under the Carpet. He collaborates frequently with folk singer Youmna Saba and punk band Scrambled Eggs.
In addition to managing and handling all engineering tasks at Tunefork Studios, Tabbal is a specialist in sound design and sound conception. He has worked on a variety of projects, including sound installations for Lebanese art group The Feel Collective, and sound design for films by Lebanese filmmakers Maher Abi-Samra, Rania Rafei, Leila Hoteit, among others.
1. Brothers from Another Planet
2. Grizzle
3. On the Rooftop Looking Up
4. Grizzly
5. Woolgathering
6. In the Dust of the Stars 1
7. Homebound
8. Paralyzed
9. In the Dust of the Stars 2
10. The Land That Time Forgot
11. District 11
12. Intrusion
13. Distant Relatives
14. The Quiet Earth
15. Castles in the Air
16. Under a Flag
17. Trespassing
18. Somewhere in Time
19. Sideways
20. Near the Hillside
