Ruptured

05/03/2025

Today, Ruptured announces Ripe, the new album by Beirut’s longest-running alternative trio, POSTCARDS — composed of lyricist, singer, and guitarist Julia Sabra , drummer Pascal Semerdjian , and guitarist/bassist Marwan Tohme .

Their fifth album, Ripe (out March 28 via Ruptured and Berlin-based T3 Records), is both a natural evolution and a bold departure, channeling themes of anger, grief, and resilience.

Recorded live in a family home in the Lebanese mountains and produced by longtime collaborator Fadi Tabbal , the album captures the raw energy of their live shows while balancing intensity with expansive soundscapes.

First single Dust Bunnies is out now on Bandcamp and digital platforms. A laundry list of the frustrations of living in Lebanon, the track builds into a menacing, unsettling atmosphere that recalls PJ Harvey’s darker moments, culminating in Sabra belting out: “Our ancestors may have known / There’s nowhere left to go.”

The video for Dust Bunnies was directed by Areej Mahmoud 💜

All music composed and performed by Postcards: Julia Sabra, Pascal Semerdjian and Marwan Tohme. Lyrics by Julia Sabra.

Recorded and mixed by Fadi Tabbal in the Semerdjian family home in Ain Aar, and Tunefork Studios in Beirut. Produced by Fadi Tabbal and Postcards.

Mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market Mastering in Montreal.

Cover photo by Mohamad Abdouni. Design by Josette ZOoz Khalil .

Portrait of the band by Myriam Boulos .

Vinyl edition printed and pressed by in Verona. Includes download card. Limited to 400 copies.

Link to the album in our linktree. Preorders start shipping around March 15.

EU/UK distribution via . NA distribution via

Ripe was partially funded by Institut français du Liban through MASAR, a French initiative supporting contemporary music in Lebanon.

01/03/2025

Camille Cabbabé’s K2 on KEXP & Apple Music!

Happy to see K2 reaching new ears — “Moon & Domino” played on Alex Ruder’s Pacific Notions broadcast and “Probably Not” featured on the INDIY playlist .

Big thanks to everyone supporting this release 🙌
Out now on Ruptured on digital + cassette (limited edition of 50 tapes, of which a handful remains).

21/02/2025

🚨 New Release: Camille Cabbabe – K2 🚨

Ruptured is proud to present K2, the debut solo album by Lebanese filmmaker and musician Camille Cabbabe , out February 21, 2025, on cassette and digital.

Written in memory of her late brother, Karim, K2 is a collection of 18 short, intimate pieces, recorded at home over the summer of 2023. The album reflects on the passage of time and the way certain moments—whether captured or not—stay with us. Each track is a snapshot, a sonic imprint of memories that remain vivid despite their impermanence.

The album is accompanied by a film, created from home videos and personal footage, offering a visual counterpart to the music. While K2 stands alone as an album, its connection to the film deepens the experience, blending sound and image into a layered reflection on memory. The film can be viewed on Ruptured’s YouTube channel.

Composed, recorded and performed by Camille Cabbabe, except for the vocals on “Casamento” recorded by Fadi Tabbal at Tunefork Studios, and additional guitar on “Different” and “Crows” performed by Karim Kabbabe.

Rhythm Wolf by Fadi Tabbal.

Produced by Camille Cabbabe and Fadi Tabbal .

Mixed by Fadi Tabbal at , Beirut.
Mastered by Lopazz at Mix Mastering, Germany.

Design by Josette “ZOoz” Khalil .

🔗 Orders now available via our linktree. Cassettes are limited to 50 copies.

21/02/2025

🎶 ANNOUNCEMENT: Beyond All Borderlines 🎶

Ruptured presents Beyond All Borderlines, a new collaboration between Lebanese sound artist Nour Sokhon and Montreal-based musician/activist Stefan Christoff , out February 21, 2025, on cassette and digital.

This album is an immersive sonic exploration of displacement, memory, and identity, blending field recordings, spoken fragments, and evocative piano improvisations. Built upon Sokhon’s performance-based research project And Who Are We Now?, the album carries voices, sounds, and questions that echo across borders—both real and imagined.

Throughout the album, the listener is confronted with moments of reflection: the sound of a ringing telephone, a distant conversation, the rhythmic repetition of a trolley wheel—all interwoven with piano melodies that navigate the fragile space between tension and release. The album features field recordings from Lebanon and Germany, capturing the fluidity of time and space while challenging the constructed boundaries that shape our perceptions of home.

With Beyond All Borderlines, Sokhon and Christoff craft a sonic landscape that is as intimate as it is expansive—a meditation on the unseen forces that connect and separate us.

Music composed and performed by Nour Sokhon and Stefan Christoff.
Poetry on “Open channels” by Mirella Salame .

Recorded by Rabih Beaini at Morphine Raum, Berlin on Oct. 19, 2023.

Mixed by Stefan Christoff in Montreal.
Mastering by Cedrik Fermont at Syrphe, Berlin.

Artwork by Margarita Barros. Design by Maya Chami .chami.

🔗 Orders now open via our linktree. Limited cassette run of 50 copies.

21/02/2025

🎶 ANNOUNCEMENT: Beyond All Borderlines 🎶

Ruptured presents Beyond All Borderlines, a new collaboration between Berlin-based Lebanese sound artist Nour Sokhon , and Montreal-based musician/activist Stefan Christoff , out February 21, 2025, on cassette (limited to 50 copies) and digital formats.

This album is an immersive sonic exploration of displacement, memory, and identity, blending field recordings, spoken fragments, and evocative piano improvisations. Built upon Sokhon’s performance-based research project And Who Are We Now?, the album carries voices, sounds, and questions that echo across borders—both real and imagined.

Throughout the album, the listener is confronted with moments of reflection: the sound of a ringing telephone, a distant conversation, the rhythmic repetition of a trolley wheel—all interwoven with piano melodies that navigate the fragile space between tension and release. The album features field recordings from Lebanon and Germany, capturing the fluidity of time and space while challenging the constructed boundaries that shape our perceptions of home.

With Beyond All Borderlines, Sokhon and Christoff craft a sonic landscape that is as intimate as it is expansive—a meditation on the unseen forces that connect and separate us.

Music composed and performed by Nour Sokhon and Stefan Christoff.
Poetry on “Open channels” by Mirella Salame .

Recorded by Rabih Beaini at Morphine Raum, Berlin on Oct. 19, 2023.

Mixed by Stefan Christoff in Montreal.
Mastering by Cedrik Fermont at Syrphe, Berlin.

Artwork by Margarita Barros. Design by Maya Chami .chami.

🔗 Orders now open via our linktree. Limited cassette run of 50 copies.

19/02/2025

Grateful to Philip Sherburne for writing about Fadi Tabbal’s latest album I recognize you from my sketches — which we released earlier this year on vinyl & digital.

“10 tracks of somber ambient and rose-tinted noise—at times plaintive, at times anguished. I hear bits of Tim Hecker in the smoldering distortion crackling at the edges of his synths and guitars, and a Kranky-esque sensibility in general—in the mournful desert landscaping of “(keep pumping),” say, or the striated textures of “When we swam together,” translucent as quartz.”

Make sure to check out / subscribe to Philip’s terrific substack Futurism Restated at futurismrestated.substack.com

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Fadi’s track “(keep beating)” is also featured in Beatport’s chart ‘Best New Electronica: February 2025’ — it’s a good month 🙌



All relevant links at the linktree in bio.

14/02/2025

Renata's mix for Stegi Radio can be listened to / viewed at the link below. Grateful.

A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal – this broadcast features a mix by Lebane…

22/01/2025

Today Ruptured announces a new album by Lebanese musician, producer, and sound engineer FADI TABBAL (, , Stress Distress).

I recognize you from my sketches, Tabbal’s latest solo work, is a deeply personal collection of ten instrumental pieces.
The album explores memory, identity, and the emotional disconnect between who we aspire to be and who we ultimately become.

Music by Fadi Tabbal. Performed on electric guitar, synthesizers, and cassette tapes.

Samples by Julia Sabra , Charbel Haber , Sharif Sehnaoui, Pascal Semerdjian , Anthony Sahyoun , Marwan Tohme , and Ghassan Sahhab .sahhab.

Recorded and mixed at , Beirut.
Mastered by Lopazz at Mixmastering, Germany.

Photography by Fadi Tabbal. Design by Josette Zooz Khalil .

I recognize you from my sketches will be released on January 31, 2025, in LP and digital formats.

Link to the album in our linktree. Preorders will start shipping early next week.

EU/UK distribution via . NA distribution via .

12/01/2025

Grateful for the inclusion of "Ghadr" and Yara Asmar in The Attic's staff picks for November & December 2024.

The final selection of albums from 2024 is here.

12/01/2025

Splendid broadcast by Chiara Colli over at Battiti (Radio 3) with a focus on indie music from Lebanon, featuring several releases by Ruptured and related artists.

«Il Libano è una terra a cui non è stato permesso di “respirare” normalmente. È complicato circoscrivere un nostro concetto di identità, e la mia ossessione, come quella di altri musicisti contemporanei, è trovare un modo di esprimerci che sia il più sincero possibile, consapevoli che la nostra musica sia piena di riferimenti e influenze che non arrivano soltanto da un luogo o una cultura. Perché siamo cresciuti in questa maniera».
Parole di Sary Moussa, musicista che abbiamo incontrato alla passata edizione del festival Le Guess Who? insieme ad altri due artisti libanesi, Abed Kobeissy e Julia Sabra: tutti e tre appartengono a una delle generazioni che dal Duemila a oggi hanno contribuito a rivoluzionare e rendere fortemente indipendente, vivace e sperimentale la scena alternativa libanese. Questa notte di Battiti prova a dare un piccolo spaccato della sua varietà straordinaria e delle innumerevoli collaborazioni, attraverso il lavoro di realtà come Ruptured, Annihaya Records, Irtijal e i suoni di Scrambled Eggs, A Trio, Two Or The Dragon, Sandy Chamoun, Fadi Tabbal, Postcards, Youmna Saba, El Rass & Munma, Malayeen, Jerusalem In My Heart, Mayssa Jallad, Yara Asmar, Sanam.

05/12/2024

Grateful to and for this beautiful, in depth review of Yara Asmar’s latest album Stuttering Music, released by Ruptured in November.

“The toy instruments and edited field recordings of her earliest work have gradually given way as her grandmother’s accordion has increasingly taken center stage, as it does on Stuttering Music, its drones drifting and mutating, processed and thickened with electroacoustic effects.
At times reminiscent of Tim Hecker’s tectonic drones or Keith Fullerton Whitman’s ethereal signal processing, the most obvious referent may be the way Pauline Oliveros treated her own accordion sounds, though Asmar’s dilation of time functions more through streaked harmonic overtones rather than accumulated delays.”

We still have a handful of copies of the cassette’s second pressing available on , get them while you can.

Link to the cassette & to Joseph’s feature at the linktree in bio.

03/12/2024

Lebanese artist, musician and performer SANDY CHAMOUN is the guest of Ziad Nawfal’s December broadcast for Stegi Radio in Athens.

Tune in to Stegi Radio https://stegi.radio/ this TUESDAY 03 DECEMBER at 3pm Montréal / 10pm Athens + Beirut.

Sandy’s latest release GHADR, a trio album with Anthony Sahyoun and Jad Atoui, was released by Ruptured just last Friday. You can hear an excerpt from it at the beginning of today’s broadcast.

TRACK LISTING:
- Sandy Chamoun / Anthony Sahyoun / Jad Atoui: Taha Layl
- Stress Distress: The Jetty
- Jad Atoui: Alpha 60
- NP (Anthony Sahyoun & Jad Atoui): Iridescence
- Sandy Chamoun: Ahlam al khayal احلام الخيال

SANDY CHAMOUN GUEST MIX

- Anthony Sahyoun feat. Julia Sabra: Wasted Efforts
- Marc Codsi: Fugue 1
- Youmna Saba: Al Khayal
- Kamilya Jubran: Wahdi
- Diamanda Galas: Judgment Day
- Howie Lee: Bankers
- Katibeh Khamseh: Silat Rahem
- Arca: Prada/Rakata
- Malayeen: Omar
- Jerusalem in my Heart: 2asmar Sahar
- Mohamad Omran: Aslamtou Wajhi
- Saint Abdullah: Sounds from the Hosseinieh
- Abdullah Miniawy: Purple Feathers

26/11/2024

Grateful to James GUI for including GHADR غدر, the first release by Sandy Chamoun, Anthony Sahyoun and Jad Atoui, in his latest “Ley Lines” column on Bandcamp Daily.
He has some beautiful words to say about the album, too.

“On this record, [Beirut DIY] scene stalwarts Anthony Sahyoun and Sandy Chamoun (SANAM) join forces with electroacoustic artist Jad Atoui in a reckoning with tradition that’s fueled by stuttering sub bass, searing guitar textures, and layers of melancholy vocals.

Chamoun’s ghostly rendition of “Tahal Layl”—a Bedouin folk song—floats atop drones that expand into a blistering modular onslaught; “Al Moulatham,” on the other hand, interpolates reflections by Yousef al-Domouky on the genocide in Gaza over glitchy, Tim Hecker-esque ambient swells.

Ghadr exhorts us to listen to both violence and repair, mobilizing tradition to face an uncertain future.”

Read James’s full text / stream first single “Hayawanon Ghader” / read Daryl Worthington’s fantastic album onesheet / preorder the vinyl — all at linktree in bio.

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