'Meet Me in Beirut' is Hadi Zeidan's 4th solo album.
Featuring eight tracks and a bonus cut, the album is a musical examination of scenes lived or imagined by the artist in his home city Beirut.

Compositions span from kraut-inspired patterns to garage rock, bellydance noise and a synth maqam solo, in a quest to emancipate Zeidan's work from the normative genres.

Digital release only.

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Torino Express

heavenly illumination of bloody tears

ice cave 1.1 dg 15 bpm take 1 72025

#lab1 (days i spend thinkin)

VERSATILE 20 YEARS : 1996 / 2016
a double cd selected by I:Cube & Gilb'r

Release Party in Paris - Samedi 28 Mai à Villette Sonique
for Versatile 20 Years
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Between the time when we were hand-stickering our first release (I:Cube - Disco cubizm) in the living room of my former apartment at Rue de la Goutte d'Or and today, 20 years have passed. Twenty years in which I have tried to show inventiveness, perseverance, and... surprise. The surprise comes primarily from the artists, who’ve been my main motivation as well as my source of energy during all this time. I want to thank them all here, first and foremost I:Cube, who was the first to be signed and with whom I now share this selection on this double CD.

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King Ghazi - Shamaleh (Gilb'R Main Mix)

Available on limited edition 2x12" with Gilb'r / I:Cube / Dj Sotofett remixes

https://versatilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/king-ghazi-presents-abu-sayah-houran-shamaleh

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King Ghazi presents Abu Sayah - HOURAN(GILB-R SIMPLE TONE MIX)- Versatile 108

'Three Voices' is the first vinyl release from Lebanese electronic artist Jawad Nawfal aka MUNMA. The album is marked by several vocal collaborations, a departure in style for this pioneer of Beirut's electronic scene of the 2000's. The album is produced and released by Lebanese alternative label Ruptured, in June 2016.  

Three Voices

Munma - Cadavre Exquis

Meet Nuri on FB: https://www.facebook.com/nurivibes

All tracks composed, recorded and mixed by Nuri
All samples used by permission
Mastered by Benoit Courribet
Cover artwork & design by Sarah Ennouri
℗ & © Shouka 2017 – All rights reserved
Under exclusive licence to Shouka

9roov

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Nuri - 9roov

Taken from 'I Can Be a Clay Snapper'
Order: https://goo.gl/3hCLGz
tak:til / glitterbeat

Hailing from Slovenia, Širom play vividly textured and (mostly) imagined, instrumental folk musics. Handmade and global instrumentation meets fearless sound exploration. 

Slovenia’s miniature, but incredibly diverse landscapes, echo through its distinctive cultural, historic and linguistic traits. When thinking about Širom’s geographical trajectories, as well as their musical ebb and flow, one has to consider the abundance of water that can be found in the individual regions where they come from. Cascading mountain stream lilt, lazy lowland river meandering and the mysteriously vanishing waters of Karst are most certainly inscribed into Samo Kutin’s, Iztok Koren’s and Ana Kravanja’s childhood memories and subsequently, their remarkable musical art. 

The band’s emergent sound oscillates between a wide array of acoustic folk sounds and contemporary post rock meditations, often drifting from improvisation to structured composition and then back. It is described by the members themselves as imaginary folk or folk from a parallel universe. “Our music creates emotional landscapes. When I was still painting every day (Ana holds a degree in painting) I was trying to paint my dreams but that didn’t work out,” Ana remembers. “I discovered that by using an abstract image I can draw nearer to what I felt in my dreams. Our music is based on a similar principle.”

According to Samo, the guiding concepts of their music-making are: “To play on acoustic instruments, to work with repetition and a common sound. Each of us can play a simple thing, but the overall result is that a complex thing comes to life. The quality of sound depends on the combination of the instruments and that’s why we modify and prepare instruments or create our own.”

As an avid sound-seeker, Samo began to develop an interest in building instruments out of everyday objects like drawers, computer boxes and other “junk” (as he lovingly calls his creations) as well as re-tooling the ones he brought back from his globetrotting adventures that have included personal encounters with local musicians in India, Morocco, Mali, Greece and elsewhere. 

Ana, who also nurtures a very personal relationship with music paraphernalia, adds: “There is a different attitude at play if you make an instrument yourself. It already tells you a story. If you buy it, it takes longer to get to know it, to tame it.”

In the little village of Lesno Brdo, tucked in the rolling hills ten kilometers south of Ljubljana, Ana and Samo organize music performances and festivals on a farm they rent, and divide their time between music making and vegetable farming. A close connection with nature is also important to Iztok who now resides in the capital city. “It’s a sort of a contact with the past but it also has its own life in the present.” 

Fearlessly textured sonic landscapes – both linked to and unbound by – the past and present, geography and tradition, the real and imagined. Hypnotic, otherworldly and epic. 

Širom’s music moves like the restless waters of their homeland. No matter how hushed or slow it may seem, it is never ever standing still. 
  
Širom are: Iztok Koren – banjo, three string banjo, bass drum, percussion, chimes, balafon, various objects // Ana Kravanja – violin, viola, ribab, cünbüs, balafon, ngoma drum, mizmar, various objects, voice // Samo Kutin – lyre, balafon, one string bass, frame drums, brač, gongoma, mizmar, various objects, voice

I Can Be a Clay Snapper

Boats, Biding, Beware!

Širom - Boats, Biding, Beware! (Čolni, Čakam, Čúvaj!)

/// Fortuna Records Presents /// 

• Tsvia Abarbanel - Soul Of The East EP •

Fortuna Records brings you one of the rarest, most exotic recordings to ever come out of the Middle East. This lost and forgotten record is the true meaning of east meets west and is bound to leave you craving for more.
In the late sixties, Israel had a large Yemenite community in which original folk artists started blending western instrument into traditional songs. The biggest name of the time was the innovative Aharon Amram, who was the first to introduce electric guitars, bass, Farfisa organs, and drum kits to traditional Yemeni rhythms, conventionally played by tapping fingers on an olive-oil tin can. Tsvia Abarbanel and 'Piamenta's Guys' took a few steps ahead into the unexplored territory of Yemenite jazz. The synergy between Albert Piamenta, one of Israel's leading funk and jazz arrangers, and Tzvia Abarbanel with her extraordinary voice and haunting melodies, is something like Mulatu Astatke meets Yma sumac. The strange rhythm patterns, the enchanted performance of the musicians and the amazing voice of Tsvia all come together to create a raw and unique style, capturing the sound of the warm desert wind and its glowing dust.

Release Date:

29/10/2012

Release info:

info@fortuna-records.com

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Tsvia Abarbanel - Yahlel Hawa (FTN001-B)

On emploie parfois à tout-va l’expression “électron libre”. Mais pour lui il faut reconnaître qu’elle colle parfaitement au personnage. Même le mot électron, qui donne l’impression d’être de l’électronique à moitié ne pourrai pas mieux dire le caractère de sa musique au croisement des musiques traditionnelles et des expériences électroniques. À l’image de la liste de ses collaborations '(de Christophe à Bojan Z en passant par Kerry James, Jeanne Cherhal, Francesco Tristano ou Carl Craig), le nouveau disque du franco-libanais explore presque une nouvelle voie esthétique à chaque piste: inspiré par une retraite artistique dans les montagnes de Jaj, au Liban, On / Off est aussi et surtout un disque profondément émouvant. On est donc heureux et confiants à l’heure de filer les clés de la programmation pour une heure à Bachar Mar-Khalifé. On mise sur un grand shot de liberté(s).
https://www.le-grigri.com/shows/2021/1/18/carte-blanche-bachar-mar-khalife

1.    Steps Ahead - In a sentimental mood
2.    John Coltrane - You Dont Know What Love Is
3.    Nick Drake - Riverman
4.    Hamza El Din – Greetings
5.    Ciwan Haco - Xerîbi
6.    Khalifa Ould Eide, Dimi Mint Abba - Yar Allahoo 
7.    Bojan Z - Xenos blues
8.    Mahmoud Ahmed – Tezeta
9.    Ziad Rahbani - Prelude Theme From Mais Al Rim

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Carte Blanche à Bachar Mar-Khalifé

Lebanese indie label Ruptured was founded in 2008 by music promoter/radio producer Ziad Nawfal and sound engineer/producer Fadi Tabbal from Tunefork Studios, as an outlet for their activities as music producers and promoters in Beirut. 
Ruptured aims to release material by Lebanese and international artists, with a strong focus on alternative rock, electronic and experimental music.

Munma - Cadavre Exquis

Ruptured Music