Ruptured

15/09/2026

Charbel Haber // Showcase at Balades Sonores, Paris

Balades Sonores hosts a showcase by Lebanese musician, performer, visual artist and composer Charbel Haber. Haber’s work has led him to collaborate with artists working across music, cinema, video, visual art and theatre, both in Lebanon and internationally. His latest album, May a soft sun bless your sky while you wait for the inevitable, was released by Ruptured…...

Balades Sonores hosts a showcase by Lebanese musician, performer, visual artist and composer Charbel Haber. Haber’s work has led him to collaborate with artists working across music, cinema, video,…

15/09/2026

Ruptured announces BNNT & Radwan Ghazi Moumneh: A Faithful Daughter.

First excerpt “Actual” is now streaming on Bandcamp and all major digital platforms.

Recorded at Hotel2Tango in Montréal in December 2018, A Faithful Daughter brings together Lebanese-Canadian composer and musician Radwan Ghazi Moumneh Radwan Ghazi Moumneh with Polish experimental duo BNNT, Konrad Smoleński Konrad Smolenski and Daniel Szwed Daniel Szwed.

BNNT have been working across experimental music and contemporary art since 2008, developing a practice that extends from records into installations and live performance.
Moumneh, founder of Jerusalem In My Heart and co-founder of Hotel2Tango, has spent decades developing a singular approach to Arabic musical traditions and experimental sound.

Across four long-form pieces, the three musicians build slowly shifting structures from electronics and percussion, with Moumneh on buzuk and voice. Recorded eight years ago, these sessions have remained unreleased until now. The album features four original texts by Montréal writer Olivia Tapiero olivia tapiero , written in response to the music, and was mastered by Harris Newman Harris Newman.

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LP / Digital
October 2, 2026
300 copies on vinyl
Listen/preorder: https://bnnt.bandcamp.com/album/a-faithful-daughter

A CD edition will be released in Poland by Instant Classic Instant Classic and made available through their online shop.

A Faithful Daughter will also be taken on tour, with dates in Belgrade, Zagreb, Kraków, Utrecht, Jena and Berlin, including a special performance at Unsound Unsound Festival in Kraków.

More soon.

28/08/2026

Today we release the full video for “Reaching Heart” by Jad Atoui , with visuals by Ralf Moussa .

The video brings Jad’s modular synthesis together with original footage shot by Moussa. Developed over approximately ten months, the work took shape through periods of working on the material and letting it rest, with different speeds and durations gradually introduced into the sound and image.

Watch “Reaching Heart” in full on Ruptured’s YouTube channel, alongside several other live performances by Jad recorded over the years: https://youtube.com/

“Reaching Heart” is taken from It Will Take Forever, Jad’s new solo album, out now on Ruptured.

16/08/2026

Next Friday, August 21, two Ruptured archival reissues return to vinyl.

Scrambled Eggs – Happier Together, Filthier Than Ever Forever brings together the band’s 2006 and 2009 releases, newly remastered and issued on vinyl for the first time.
Featuring Charbel Haber, Marc Codsi, Tony Elieh and Malek Rizkallah, the collection captures Scrambled Eggs at a crucial point in Beirut’s underground, during and after the July 2006 war.

The Incompetents – A Temporary Convergence Of Interests [The Disgruntled Best Of] gathers nineteen tracks from Serge Yared and Fadi Tabbal’s thirteen-year collaboration, spanning five releases from 2008 to 2020.
The anthology traces a constantly evolving project rooted in Beirut’s independent music community.

Both editions feature restored artwork, full-colour double-sided lyrics inserts and newly remastered audio. Each is pressed on 140g black vinyl, limited to 200 copies.

Both albums are released Friday, August 21. Pre-orders are open now.

Video excerpt from “Stripped” by The Incompetents by Selim Mourad.
“Russian Roulette” by Scrambled Eggs by Florent Meng (presumably).

Fadi Tabbal Serge Yared Charbel Haber Marc Codsi Tunefork Studios Malek Rizkallah Tony Elieh Cargo Independent Distribution Jolan Bangina

12/08/2026

A big one for Ruptured Ruptured.

Jad Atoui Jad Atoui is featured across four pages in the September 2026 issue of The Wire The Wire magazine, in an interview with Daryl Worthington .worthington covering It Will Take Forever and the wider body of work Jad has built over the past years.

This is the first time a Ruptured release has been the subject of a feature of this scale in The Wire.
A big thank you to Daryl for taking the time to speak with Jad and for putting the work into such a substantial feature 🙌

It Will Take Forever is available from Ruptured, on vinyl and digital: https://jad-atoui.bandcamp.com/album/it-will-take-forever

The Wire’s September issue is out now. We’re posting a few excerpts from the feature here.
https://www.thewire.co.uk/home/

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10/08/2026

DOMESTIC AUDIO SYSTEMS // 15 August 2026

Back in Beirut, Ziad Nawfal will be joining Hatem Imam, Charbel Haber, Miriam Sakr and junior at Metro al Madina on Saturday 15 August 2026 for Domestic Audio Systems. The five will play mostly vin…

30/07/2026

This Sunday, Scrambled Eggs return to the Beirut stage.

To celebrate the vinyl release of Happier Together, Filthier Than Ever Forever by Ruptured, the band will perform its first Beirut concert in 12 years at B018.

Sunday, August 2
9:00 PM
B018

See you there.

27/07/2026

Ruptured News // Scrambled Eggs + The Incompetents archival reissues

After years out of print, two essential chapters of Beirut’s independent music scene return to circulation. With these two releases, Ruptured continues its archival reissue series dedicated t…

25/07/2026

We’ve been quietly working on this reissue for a long time, and we’re finally able to share it 🎸

Today we announce another new release in Ruptured’s archival reissue series: Scrambled Eggs – Happy Together, Filthy Forever / Peace Is Overrated & War Misunderstood.

Emerging from Beirut’s underground music scene in the early 2000s, Scrambled Eggs established themselves as one of the defining bands of their generation.

Drawing from punk, post-punk, noise and experimental rock, the quartet of Charbel Haber, Marc Codsi, Tony Elieh and Malek Rizkallah developed a musical language that constantly shifted shape, refusing to settle into any fixed identity.

This LP brings together Happy Together, Filthy Forever and Peace Is Overrated & War Misunderstood, two records originally released three years apart but deeply connected by the period from which they emerged.

Recorded in the months surrounding the July 2006 war, Happy Together, Filthy Forever captured the band at a turning point, balancing direct songwriting with the fearless experimentation that had always defined their work.

Released three years later, Peace Is Overrated & War Misunderstood gathered demos, soundtrack work and previously unreleased recordings made between 2006 and 2009, documenting another side of the band’s output while preserving material that might otherwise have remained scattered across compilations and out-of-print releases.

Long unavailable, both albums have been newly remastered by Harris Newman Harris Newman at Grey Market in Montreal and are presented on vinyl for the very first time.

The release also features new artwork and design by Josette Khalil Josette Khalil, drawing on Yasmina Baz’s original and now-iconic cover for Happy Together, Filthy Forever.

Pressed in a limited edition of 200 copies.

Physical copies are available from Ruptured’s Bandcamp page, through Cargo UK, and in Beirut at fizzbeirut.

https://rupturedthelabel.bandcamp.com/album/happier-together-filthier-than-ever-the-best-of

Also arriving on Bandcamp and streaming platforms today is the double single “Johnny Anti-Christ” / “See You in Beirut”, offering a taste of the newly remastered edition.

Band photos by Joe Kesrouani and Tanya Traboulsi Tanya Traboulsi.

25/07/2026

This one has been a long time coming.

Today we announce a new release in Ruptured’s archival reissue series: The Incompetents – A Temporary Convergence Of Interests [The Disgruntled Best Of].

Formed in Beirut in 2007 by songwriter Serge Yared Serge Yared and producer and multi-instrumentalist Fadi Tabbal Fadi Tabbal, The Incompetents evolved over more than a decade through changing lineups while remaining anchored by the singular partnership at their centre.

Along the way, the project became a meeting point for an exceptional community of musicians, including Abed Kobeissy Abed Kobeissy , Amine Daher, Malek Rizkallah Malek Rizkallah, Maya Aghniadis Flugen, Paed Conca Paed Conca, Stéphane Rives, and, on its final recordings, Julia Sabra Julia Sabra, Pascal Semerdjian Pascal Semerdjian and Marwan Tohme marwantohme of Postcards.

Rather than following a single stylistic path, The Incompetents embraced contradiction. Across 19 tracks drawn from five releases issued between 2008 and 2020, A Temporary Convergence Of Interests moves between post-punk, art rock, folk, improvisation and spoken word, guided by Serge Yared’s singular voice: literary, self-deprecating, sharply observed and often darkly funny.

Recorded primarily at Tunefork Studios Tunefork Studios, these songs also document a remarkable period in Beirut’s independent music community. More than a retrospective, the anthology traces the evolution of a band while capturing the wider creative ecosystem that surrounded it.

Presented with Alfred Tarazi’s Alfred Tarazi original artwork, the collection is available on vinyl for the 1st time and includes bonus tracks and rarities spanning the band’s entire catalogue.

Pressed at Mother Tongue Mother Tongue Records in a limited edition of 200 copies.

Pre-orders open this Saturday. The album is released on August 21.

https://theincompetents.bandcamp.com/album/a-temporary-convergence-of-interests-the-disgruntled-best-of

Also arriving on Bandcamp and streaming platforms today is the double single “Grey Midas” / “Cannibal Blues”, taken from the newly remastered anthology.

Physical copies are available from Ruptured’s Bandcamp page, through Cargo UK Cargo Independent Distribution, and in Beirut at Fizz fizzbeirut.

Live photos by Tanya Traboulsi Tanya Traboulsi.