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Ruptured

Munma 'Three Voices' Vinyl LP

£19.99

Ruptured

Munma 'Three Voices' Vinyl LP

£19.99



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
8. L'arbre.