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Kid Fourteen is the solo project of Khodor Ellaik, a punk musician born and bred in Beirut with a range of influences that includes Joe The Clash, Alan Vega, and more recently Sleaford Mods and Alex Huang from Dirty Beaches. Between 2010 and 2014, Ellaik was the frontman of Beirut Scum Society and short-lived post-punk/no-wave outfit Friendly Faces.
Both bands split in acrimonious circumstances. Ellaik adopted a solo aesthetic using a small assortment of synthesizers and drum machines, in order to shape what became Kid Fourteen's trademark sound, an impressive blend of punk sensibilities and noise-pop elements.
He has performed in several European festivals, including 'Incubate' in Holland and 'Waveteef' in Belgium. Back home in Beirut, he has organized successful concerts for prominent international bands such as Xiu Xiu and Dirty Beaches.Kid Fourteen's debut album 'Dream Kids Never Sleep' was self-released digitally in June 2016.
Tracklisting:
1. The Dancer
2. Fast Times In The Pleasure Land
3. It's A Lovely Night
4. Whirlwind Blues
5. Find Your Lover
6. The City Ways, The City Weighs
7. I Get Around All Day
8. Humphrey, It's A Pleasure Principle
9. I Wonder If My Father
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Sold outThe BUNNY TYLERS is a collaboration between Charbel Haber (Scrambled Eggs, Malayeen, Johnny Kafta Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra) and Fadi Tabbal (The Incompetents, Under The Carpet, Safar), aimed at the exploration of different guitar bowing techniques and celebrating the smell of cold tobacco, cheap aftershave, eternal sunsets and surfer suicides. "Glitches and Drones 2013-2016" will be released by Lebanese independent label Ruptured on November 8, 2016 in a limited edition of 300 copies.Visit product page →
Tracklisting:
1. Contact Transfer Stains
2. Music For Debris Found Along The Coastline
3. The Colorful Dreams Of The Cross Dressing Killer
4. Mothers Make Murderers
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Jawad Nawfal is a pioneer of Lebanon's electronic/dance scene. Starting out as a DJ and event promoter in the late 90's, he eventually moved on to production and composition in the early 2000's, forming live electronic duos Ae_Quo and AEX with Lebanese musician Victor Bresse.
Nawfal created MUNMA in the aftermath of Israel's war on Lebanon in the summer of 2006 -- this solo project explores oriental harmonies and rhythmical patterns, with a strong reliance on sampled traditional musical beds, excerpts from politicians'speeches and radio broadcasts. In 2012, Jawad started working with Lebanese writer and slam poet Mazen el-Sayed aka 'El Rass', and the two musicians released two albums which explore the darker sides of rap, and display strong electronica and dubstep influences.
In the following years, Nawfal collaborated with Belgian electronic producer Cedrik Fermont, and released 3 albums on his label Syrphe Records with different contributors.
THREE VOICES is the first vinyl release from Munma, and the second vinyl release from Lebanese alternative label Ruptured (following RadioKVM's Issrar'in 2014). Munma's new album is marked by several vocal collaborations, a departure in style for this pioneer of Beirut's electronic scene. As such, the vocal element was always present in the music of Munma, whether through radio broadcasts, samples of political speeches, recordings of musicians'voices and the like, but he had never actually used the human voice as an intrinsic element in his compositions.
Following his successful collaboration with rapper El Rass and other hip-hop artists from Beirut and the neighboring area (including Touffar, El Far3i and Boikutt, among others), Jawad Nawfal became drawn towards the capabilities of the human voice, more specifically the reciting of poetry by a human voice, and began to integrate this element in his music process.
He called on various writers, mostly female ones, to write personal texts and recite them in spoken-word form in the studio. He then proceeded to build specific music beds around these voice recordings and recitations.
The resulting album is Three Voices', a fully collaborative yet vastly personal album of electronic treatments and human narration.
Tracklisting:
1. ðole
2. Muse
3. Three voices
4. Chien fou
5. Solstice 2
6. Cadavre exquis
7. Rêve éveil
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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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The city of Tripoli is, to a certain extent, shrouded in media-fabricated illusion. Whenever it's on the news, it's often bad news: from the ongoing armed clashes between supporters and detractors of the Syrian Revolution, to unspeakable acts such as the of a library carrying various rare and precious works. Despite this, the city's inhabitants know what life in the city is like first-hand and have their own unique perceptions and memories of Tripoli. Such is the case with Mazen El Sayed, 29, better known by his stage name, El Rass.Visit product page →
El Sayed is an Arabic MC who currently resides in Beirut but hails from the northern port city of Tripoli. His music is typically characterized by highly opinionated, thought-provoking lyrics dealing with everything from politics to society, philosophy and religion, recited over experimental beats. The sound is something more akin to alternative electronica than to standard hip hop. Topics have ranged from critiquing Orientalism, in the track (Orientalism), to the taboo subject of a woman's honor, in the track (In Your Honor), to singing the praises of the penguin metaphorically, in the track (The Penguin). One subject which often recurs in El Sayed's work is his hometown of Tripoli, which serves as the topic of his latest music video for (From the Planet Fayhaa). In it, he discusses Tripoli as he sees it, and praises all those who are able to see it their own way.
He states in the song: 'This song's for the people of the city abroad. Smiling faces, sad hearts abroad. This song's for all those whose life is difficult. Who were able to go beyond the walls of the box. This song's for those hanging out, chilling. With or without religion.' At the time of El Sayed's upbringing, Tripoli was under Syrian occupation: it was a city suppressed, inhibited, and in the MC's own words 'gloomy'. But perhaps the state the city was in only served to encourage curiosity and defiance in El Sayed, who recalls: 'We wanted to live the city in a way that was different than the way we were expected to live it.' When it comes to his rhymes, El Sayed remarks, 'to me, the act of writing is an explosion." El Sayed does not regard Tripoli as a purely political, social or religious object, instead, he describes it as a multi-dimensional entity, not unlike a person: 'It's like you're talking about somebody you truly love, but see in them all their different sides, those you might love and those you might hate; depending on the moment, depending on the emotion that was born as a reason to write at that moment, you're gonna go in different directions,' explains El Sayed. Case in point, the tracks Fi Qal'at Tarablus (In the Citadel of Tripoli) and Min Kawkab Al Fayhaa (From the Planet Fayhaa). In Fi Qal'at Tarablus, El Sayed tackles the social, political, and religious facets of Tripoli with tones of anger and frustration, personifying these issues as a literal beast that inhabits the famed Citadel of Tripoli. On the other end of the spectrum, Min Kawkab Al Fayhaa sees him taking a more personal laid-back approach, relating the experiences of a day spent out and about in the city.
Despite his music's relevance to Tripoli, El Sayed does not have as great a following in the city itself as that of his Beirut audience. He attributes this to two things: a lack of venues in Tripoli and not enough openness to different kinds of music. El Sayed feels the tides are turning: "a segment of the youth have recently liberated themselves, choosing to engage more with reality, be active, do things. When they took that step, they found me." Another factor that may have contributed to the popularity of El Sayed's music in Lebanon as a whole might be his even greater popularity in neighboring Arab countries such as Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Syria. 'We have a mentality, sadly, that when you prove yourself outside, people start getting curious about you inside,' comments the MC.
Despite his ever-growing popularity, locally, regionally and abroad, El Sayed is not concerned with where he is most popular or how many fans he can win over, and still appreciates those who were with him on his musical journey since day one, which kicked off with the launch of his debut album Kachf El Mahjoub (Unveiling the Hidden) in 2012. 'The model in my head isn't to get to somewhere where a million people listen to [me]. I'm looking for core fans, people who really interact, who really think.' Beirut.com
1. My Battle
2. Storm in a Teacup
3. Kashghara
4. To an Idea
5. Elevator Music
6. In the Ice
7. Return of the Penguin
8. Octopus Arm
9. We Will Not Return
10. Sea
11. Small Intestines
12. Who's Afraid
13. Breaking News
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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
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Hailing from Beirut, Lebanon, Sary Moussa aka RadioKVM is a self-taught electronic musician. Moussa grew up listening to rock and jazz, before diving into electronica. He started crafting his own melodies under the moniker RadioKVM in 2008. He collaborated closely with Lebanese producer Okydoky, organizing live gigs and releasing a batch of demos; the two men became notorious on the live circuit of Beirut's electronic scene.
Issrar is RadioKVM's first full-length album, and the first vinyl release from Lebanese independent label Ruptured. The process of creating the record was informed by frequent forays into Techno (TM404, Karl O'Connor¦), Krautrock, Post-rock, Bass music, Birmingham techno, Dubstep, Loop music, and healthy doses of Terry Riley and Lamonte Young.
In later years, Moussa collaborated with Lebanese electronic producers Munma, Jad Atoui, and Liliane Chlela, releasing both remixes and original compositions for label compilations; he has also composed music for theatre and dance performances, as well as soundtracks for short films.
The album documents a shift in the way Moussa envisages and creates music. While he relied heavily on software-generated finite processes and patterns in the past, the computer became less involved in the set-up and composition of Issrar: all tracks on the album originally consist of 40 or 50-minute multi-track recordings, which were edited at a later stage.
Tracklisting:
1. Navid
2. Breeding Clones
3. Six
4. Alpha Apparatus
5. Hysteresis
6. Silvershine -
Sold outVisit product page →Limited edition, rare pressing CD, with a fold-out sleeve that becomes a lyrics sheet.
Scrambled Eggs' 11th release contains tracks recorded between 2006 and 2009.
These songs revisit the band's punk aesthetic, from the ferocious Nirvana-inspired That Fancy Behavior to the more temperate Let It Go, from the soundtrack to Lebanese feature film Je Veux Voir.
Tracklisting:
1. The Party
2. See You In Beirut
3. Let It Go (Extended Take)
4. Ms. June
5. Don't Come Knocking
6. Murder '06
7. That Fancy Behaviour
8. We're Out Setting Buildings To Flame
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Visit product page →Munma grew out of the aftermath of Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon when Nawfal decided to explore traditional Arabic harmonies and rhythms within a cutting-edge electro aesthetic.
The resulting albums combine a dark and often unsettling tone with a fragile beauty. "Previews and Premises" is no exception. Somewhat gentler than the accompanying live performance, Nawfal's latest album leaves room for reflection amid the unabashed beats and makes use of an intriguing array of samples.
The Arabic connection, for instance, is easier to discern in the recorded version. Amid the Doppler-effect drones and elastic bass tones of "Motion Sickness," it is possible to discern a lamenting voice. The opening number, "Soft Integration," positions a tremulous flute over a science-fiction array of bleeps and burps.
As in previous albums, Nawfal uses snatches of recorded speech. On "The Alchemist," an extended diatribe on musical aesthetics from a crisp-voiced gentleman is woven in and out of a prowling, moody beat and glitch-dominated electronic tones. There is still plenty of music for dancing to on the disc. "Ear Damage" combines a propulsive, punchy beat with drifting curtains of sound. "The Alchemist" uses a concatenation of beats that almost brings to mind the catchiness of last summer's German breakout act, Moderat.
"Previews and Premises," is a compilation of Nawfal's work from the past four years. "Some of it was meant to appear on previous Munma releases," Nawfal explains in the sleeve notes, "but eventually kept aside for later inclusion." Perhaps made with a little less urgency than previous EPs,
"Previews and Premises" is nonetheless an absorbing listen, showcasing the range of Nawfal's vision. From the spacey dance tunes of "Bits and Dust" and "Explorer" to the eccentric electro of "Attention Disorder," "Previews and Premises" signals a notable talent in full command of his material. The Daily Star
Tracklisting:
1 Soft Integration
2 The Alchemist
3 Motion Sickness
4 Ear Damage
5 Explorer
6 Attention Disorder
7 It Came From Under The Sea
8 Bits And Dust -
Sold outVisit product page →The Ruptured Sessions is a series of live recordings produced by Lebanese radio host Ziad Nawfal in the studios of Radio Lebanon. The sessions take place during Nawfal's weekly program Ruptures, with musicians from Beirut's alternative scene and elsewhere.
Volume 5documents the city's younger wave of electronic composers, and features impressive performances from the likes of Jad Atoui, Liliane Chlela, Mocques and RadioKVM. Also included are recordings from such visionaries as Robert Lowe (in his Lichens guise); up-and-coming international projects Praed and Under The Carpet; as well as an exclusive duo of Lebanese guitarist Charbel Haber and Canadian sound-maker Radwan Ghazi Moumneh.
Tracklisting:
1. Aristophanes (213)[Live] by RadioKVM
2. Clowns & Elephants / Religion & Doom (Radio Liban Edit Live) by Mocques
3. Impulse (Live) by Jad Atoui
4. Euphonic Discordance Take 2 (Live) by Liliane Chlela
5. How We Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Feedback (Live) by Under The Carpet
6. Swarmed (Live) by Lichens
7. Burning, Burnt (Live) by Charbel Nicolas Haber, Radwan Ghazi Moumneh
8. 8 Gega (Live) by Praed -
Sold outVisit product page →Under The Carpet is a musical trio based in Beirut, formed in 2011 by Swiss musician Paed Conca, French musician Stéphane Rives, and Lebanese musician Fadi Tabbal.
Paed Conca is an experienced and seasoned musician in the fields of experimental music, improvised music and electronica. He has also written music for theatre, dance, film productions and small ensembles, and has toured extensively in Europe, Russia, Japan and Lebanon, with a vast array of international musicians, for the past 20 years.
Stéphane Rives comes from the world of free jazz and improvised music, and has contributed on a regular basis to Lebanon's Festival of improvised music, Irtijal, since its inception in the year 2001. He has written music for theatre, dance and film, and has toured extensively in Europe.
Fadi Tabbal is one of the most active musicians in Beirut's alternative pop & rock scene, as a member of several groups and projects, and as the owner and sound engineer of the renowned Tunefork Recording Studios.
At the essence of UTC is the idea of melody, of a defined melodic line, upon which the three musicians are free to improvise at will, yet always returning to this initial melodic idea, building upon it, enriching it with successive layers of sound, transforming it into one or a series of compositions. The initial starting point is a 'pop' idea, slowly but surely deconstructed, abstracted, in order to be rebuilt along lines of playing and communication that befit the three musicians' specific idioms. Tabbal utilizes the electric guitar as his main instrument, and uses it along a decidedly 'western' approach, favoring blues and rock-derived inflections. He also relies on an iPad to create layers of rhythm and electronic percussion. Rives is an astonishingly skilled saxophone player, and relies on various sounds coaxed from his instrument and transformed electronically through his laptop.
Conca uses both an electric bass and a clarinet to enrich UTC's tapestry. His bottom-heavy lines and considerable experience provide impetus and direction to the music, driving it forward with ease and momentum, reminiscent at times of his fine work with PRAED, his duo with Lebanese acoustic bass player Raed Yassin. While the music created by UTC hints at different musical traditions, owing as much to western rock forms (Tabbal's guitar), European improvisation (Rives's treated saxophone and electronics) and experimentation (Conca's bass and clarinet-playing), the end result feels cohesive, dynamic, rich in layers and meanings, and overall respectful of its varying origins.
UTC is an important project, as it bridges the gap between different musical traditions; it puts forward music strategies designed for a modern age of improvisation, informed entirely by pre-existing musical idioms and an overreaching instinct for melody
Tracklisting:
1 A New Hope For Medical Treatment
2 There's No Picture Of The Band
3 Weird Sounds From The Kitchen
4 Water People
5 Motherboard
6 Procedures Concerning The Foreigners
7 Bourgeois Corporation
8 There's No One In The Accounting Dept.
9 Sizes Performance And Capacity
10 Twinkle Twinkle (Part 1)
11 Twinkle Twinkle (Part 2)
12 You're Invited But Your Friend Isn't
13 Get Me A Pack
14 How Much Can You Fit On A Floppy
15 Footnote In Your History (Part 1)
16 Footnote In Your History (Part 2)
17 Footnote In Your History (Part 3)
18 Radio Kongo
19 Late Night Tales
20 Rock Bottom
21 The Days Of The Minitel Are Over -
Sold outVisit product page →The Ruptured Sessions is a series of live recordings produced by Lebanese radio host Ziad Nawfal in the studios of Radio Lebanon.
The sessions take place during Nawfal's weekly program Ruptures, with musicians from Beirut's alternative scene and elsewhere.The 4th volume of the Ruptured Sessions focuses on electronic music, and includes contributions from both local and international musicians, including Discipline, the Tashweesh Trio from Palestine, and an impressive medley from US breakcore producer Enduser, among others.
Tracklisting:
1. Untitled Sketch (For ' Beyrouth' / Western Mantra) by Discipline
2. Untitled by Tashweesh
3. I Am A Robot by OkyDoky
4. Ya Dam'at Al 'Ain by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh
5. De Vous Je Me Détache by C-Drik
6. Explorer + Soft Integration by Munma
7. Untitled With Dan Meyer + 1/3 + 2/3 + Wisdom + Switch by Enduser -
Sold outVisit product page →THE IMAGINARY SOUNDSCAPES is the electronic version of a meeting between STÉPHANE RIVES, who following his early 2010 solo project, Islets of Memories, uses re-worked samples from his discography, mixed with recordings from his daily life and sound environment and FRÉDÉRIC NOGRAY, who returns to his early research on feedback, here caused and moderated in real time by three effects pedals, oscillating between minimalism and psychedelia.
A WAY OUT BY KNOWING SMILE is the first recorded collaboration between Rives and Nogray.
Tracklisting:
1. A Way Out by Knowing Smile (Low)
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Sold outVisit product page →The Ruptured Sessions is a series of live recordings produced by Lebanese radio host Ziad Nawfal in the studios of Radio Lebanon. The sessions take place during Nawfal's weekly program Ruptures, with musicians from Beirut's alternative scene and elsewhere.
The 2nd volume of the Ruptured Sessions gathers exclusive recordings by assorted luminaries from Beirut's experimental and improv scenes, including Osman Arabi, Tarek Atoui, Stéphane Rives, Sharif Sehnaoui, as well as bands BAO and Scrambled Eggs.
Tracklisting:
1. Un-drum #3: The Semantic Scanning Electron Microscope (Vers. 0.1) by Tarek Atoui
2. Switching FM by BAO
3. To Badly by Sharif Sehnaoui
4. The XI Masks Of The Faceless One by Osman Arabi
5. Mixing FM by BAO
6. N by Sharif Sehnaoui
7. The Good, The Bad & The Tail by Scrambled Eggs
8. Islets Of Memories - Anything But Sax by Stephane Rives -
Sold outVisit product page →Ziad Nawfal's eclectic music tastes and his deep knowledge of a wide array of musical genres have made him one of the best DJ's in town for over 2 decades now, and his name has been tied to the most mythical underground places of post-war Beirut. His radio programs on Beirut's governmental radio station, Radio Liban, are also a reference for a whole generation of young alternative music lovers.
These shows, as well as numerous other professional activities related to music '? from working in Beirut's sole alternative record store, La CD-Theque, to writing reviews for all new releases of Beirut Incognito's collection, as well as for local and foreign magazines, have led to his extensive involvement with the local music scene.
He often acts as a manager, producer, or event organizer for alternative rock, experimental and electronic music artists and bands from the Lebanese scene. Following in the footsteps of one of his mentors, the BBC's famed radio host John Peel, Ziad Nawfal presents 'The Ruptured Sessions, volume 1': the first CD to be recorded live in the studios of Radio Lebanon, during his 'Ruptures' show.
The sessions were recorded in the studios of Radio Lebanon over a period of eight months, between June 2008 and February 2009. There was initially no actual intent for the sessions to be released onto CD format, which explains the lo-fi quality of some of the final tracks.
Artists came to the studio to present some of their favorite musical selections, with an emphasis on their own artistic output, and were eventually invited to grab their guitar and perform a number of songs, live on the spot. The best tracks from these impromptu sessions were then carefully selected, mixed and mastered by Tunefork Studio's (one of Beirut's most prestigious recording studios, for alternative-minded musicians) master-of-ceremony Fadi Tabbal, in collaboration with Ziad Nawfal.
The resulting CD features exclusive music by Nadine Khouri, Charbel Haber (the lead singer from punk-rock band Scrambled Eggs, caught in rare acoustic flight), Youmna Saba, Cristobal (aka Christophe Katrib), and The Incompetents. By Karma Tohmé.
Tracklisting:
1. All This Violence by Nadine Khoury
2. Building A Nest by Charbel Haber
3. Bullets Gently Flying Over My Head by The Incompetents
4. As I Walk by Cristobal
5. Tehfi by Youmna Saba
6. It Seems You Had It All Figured Out by Charbel Haber
7. Stripped by The Incompetents
8. Miss June by Charbel Haber
9. Urinal Blues 2 (The Drunken Take) by The Incompetents
10. Untitled by The Incompetents -
Sold outVisit product page →The first release from Lebanese classically-trained pianist Joanna Andraos, Khimaira merges classical influences with modern, computer-generated sound constructions.
The end result is reminiscent of Brian Eno's Ambient Music series, tempered with a Middle Eastern edge and spiked with wandering electronics, courtesy of Jawad Nawfal (Munma).
Tracklisting:
1. Sine Die
2. Abyss
3. Chorouq
4. Post Erratum Culpa
5. Nout
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Sold outVisit product page →Often referred to as the founding father of electronic music in Lebanon, Jawad Nawfal's first 3 releases as Munma came as a musical response-of-sorts to the war of 2006 in Lebanon.
Unholy Republic is the third of these short albums, and continues this reclusive artist's explorations of ambient electronica, with a reliance on samples of traditional oriental instruments, excerpts from radio & political speeches, as well as his trademark aquatic beats and fractured glitches.
Tracklisting:
1. Aegri Somnia
2. Time Collapse
3. Engram
4. Broken Chime (Arranged by Nabil Saliba)
5. Deep Down
6. Exodus -
Sold outVisit product page →Following an intense year performing live in Lebanon and abroad, Munma return to the studio in 2007 to deliver the 2nd volume of what is rumored to be a trilogy, hovering around the Lebanese-Israeli war of July 2006.
The band's familiar layers of synthesized sounds are augmented with a formidable array of processed bleeps and glitches, excerpts from radio speeches and political discourses, as well as expertly diverted samples of traditional Arabic instruments.
The only live electronics band of its kind in Lebanon has managed to deliver yet another haunting masterpiece, a record that seems to defy any possible categorization and labeling, posed somewhere between ambient soundscapes, moody electronica, and weary world music
Tracklisting:
1. Pluie d'Été
2. Finem Respice
3. Ambidextre
4. Dark Water
5. IRM
6. Open Source
