Home Is So Sad

After the Fire Before the End

Bruises

This is a mixtape of beats I compulsively wrote over a period of 2 weeks to fight a creative block working on a drone EP (there’s more tracks that didn’t make it on this one and the EP is ready)

It includes collected field recordings over a period of 2 years(e.g a neighbor that blasted “Indian?” music from across a river every evening early summer 2021, a traffic jam on the Saida corniche, a random conversation with a friend about using a device to record his piano jams…) a bootleg of Sheikha Rmitti’s “N’ta Goudami” and an excerpt from an interview with Nahla Chahal talking about the never ending struggle of life.

sssaarry // Soft (mixtape)

While we’re recording our new album, we thought we’d release a little something ahead of time for you all to enjoy. 

Credits:
Written, performed and arranged by Postcards. Produced, recorded and mixed by Fadi Tabbal, Tunefork Studios (Beirut). Mastered by Lopazz Mixmastering (Berlin).

Photo: Cyrille Karam

Lyrics:
Lost, discolored photographs
Of strangers, fancy cocktails in their hands
Their cigarettes had no effect back then
 
Take the train down to the seaside
Feel your skin slowly roasting in the sun
Before the war turns everything to hell
 
Let’s go back to the golden ages
The treasured past where nothing changes
The idealised view of a simpler way of life
That never was and never will be ours
 
Smiling brides or swallowed pride(s)
Funny how the mind sees only what it wants to see
And everyone looks better off in black and white
They all seem better off in black and white
 
Oh let’s go back to the golden ages
The treasured past where nothing changes
The idealised view of a simpler way of life
Where we could feel more real
 
Lost discolored photographs
Funny how the city looked so much more inviting then
Sometimes I wonder if we’ll ever get it back
I wonder will we ever get it back

Black and White (Demo Version)

This piece is a part of the "Bourj Hammoud Psychogeographic Exploration Beirut #3", A collaboration between artists Youssef Tabti and Rani Al Rajji. 

I mapped the part of Armenia street stretching from the Beirut river to Tunefork Studios on the coastal highway. It's a route I walk at least twice a week for work, usually with my headphones on, limiting my perception of the surroundings. 

I used field recordings taken at different times of the day, mixing them with drums and guitars to create a sonic piece that reflects the alienation i feel vis a vis the seemingly tight community and its busy inhabitants.

Detour Zaghtour/ Bourj Hammoud psychogeographic exploration

"Murur Al-Kiram", the new album by Lebanese post-rock ensemble KINEMATIK, uses electronics, intricate double-drumming, guitar and bass to construct ambient soundscapes and hypnotic, propulsive rhythms - conjuring the ghosts of a diminishing future, as well as an unresolved past. Subtle in both angst and joy, "Murur Al-Kiram" celebrates small victories in the face of great defeats.

Recorded at Tunefork Studios, Beirut, by Fadi Tabbal. 
Limited edition vinyl release by Ruptured Records [Beirut] & Beacon Sound [Portland].

Murur Al-Kiram

Kinematik - Murur Al-Kiram

Lebanese trio Postcards makes dark, brooding, at times huge dream pop. Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Julia Sabra was kind enough to join us from their producers studio in Beirut and shared insight into their latest release, The Good Soldier.

Postcards: Dream Pop from Beirut

Second single from "Imbalance" 

Full album out on March 6, 2020.

Imbalance

Figure

The Drone Sessions Vol. 1 [MP3]

The Drone Sessions Vol. 1

Fadi Tabbal & Julia Sabra - Roots

www.postcardsmusic.com
Postcards is a dream pop trio formed in 2012 in Beirut, Lebanon. Their music is defined by hushed vocals floating over expansive soundscapes that shift between harsh noise and dreamy atmospheres.
They have released 3 EPs and 2 albums, with their 3rd full-length due for the fall of 2021.

Black and White (Demo Version)

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