Ruptured Records: Ziad Nawfal

This mix is a personal offering, curated for Worldwide FM as a guest selection and composed entirely of music released on Ruptured Records—a label I co-founded in Beirut in 2008 with Fadi Tabbal of Tunefork Studios, and have been nurturing ever since through radio, live performance, and a growing catalogue of experimental sound.

For over fifteen years, Ruptured has worked at the margins of genre and geography, sustaining a space for independent music-making in a country repeatedly brought to the edge. It has become a platform for artists whose practices emerge from a landscape of political violence, cultural erasure, and infrastructural collapse—yet whose works resist despair, insisting instead on complexity, collaboration, and sonic care.

This mix is not a chronology, but a movement through textures, tones, and tensions: ambient gestures, spectral folk, raw electronics, improvised structures. Featuring Yara Asmar, Munma, Sandy Chamoun, Nour Sokhon, Fadi Tabbal, Julia Sabra, Two or The Dragon, and others, it’s a reflection of the label’s community—a loose constellation of musicians whose work testifies to the conditions of making art amid loss, displacement, and ongoing struggle.

Broadcast via Worldwide FM, a station that has long championed music across borders and forms, this mix joins a lineage of radio as resistance: sound as testimony, as gathering, as memory held in air. Ruptured’s work has never aimed to transcend the present moment, but to stay with it—to carve room for unruly joy, for grief, for presence, and for futures not yet fully imagined.

Ziad Nawfal, 13 July 2025

1. Yara Asmar - to live by a body of water is to forget it exists [Ruptured]

2. Nour Sokhon & Stefan Christoff - Another time is now [Ruptured]

3. Kinematik - Muhibbi Al-Kanari [Ruptured]

4. The Bunny Tylers - Mothers Make Murderers (Summer 91) [Ruptured]

5. Mayssa Jallad & Fadi Tabbal - Ad-Douar [Ruptured]

6. Fadi Tabbal - Absence or death [Ruptured]

7. Julia Sabra - Minor Detail [Ruptured]

8. Munma - Midday shoulder surfing [Ruptured]

9. Elyse Tabet – Bright Bells (Bana Haffar Remix) [Ruptured]

10. Shatr Collective – Kafas [Ruptured]

11. Joy Moughanni – Interlude [Ruptured]

12. Sandy Chamoun / Anthony Sahyoun / Jad Atoui – Bihali [Ruptured]

13. Farah Kaddour & Marwan Tohme - Nawal [Ruptured]

14. Two or the Dragon – Dance Grooves for the Weary Part 1 [Ruptured]

15. Charbel Haber / Nicolas Jaar / Sary Moussa - Crashing waves Part 4 [Ruptured]

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