Name: Ensemble 1: Al Jadi
Brand: Kinematik

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

RPTD036LP

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Colour

Black

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-09-03

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5056321655837

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Kinematik

Genre GB

Post Rock

Label GB

Ruptured

Lebanese indie label Ruptured was founded in 2008 by radio host Ziad Nawfal and producer/sound engineer Fadi Tabbal from Tunefork Studios. With a focus on alternative rock, electronic, and experimental music, Ruptured serves as an outlet for their activities as music producers and promoters in Beirut. The label aims to release material by both Lebanese and international artists, showcasing a diverse range of talent.

Kinematik is a Lebanese post-rock ensemble hailing from the village of Reyfoun in the Lebanese mountains. Formed in the summer of 2014, Kinematik recorded its debut album Ala’ in the spring of 2017, and released it later that same year with Lebanese indie label Ruptured. This was followed later that year by a string of performances in Lebanon, as well as a number of European dates as part of a tour organized by Beirut and Beyond International Music Festival. Both Ala' and its follow-up Murur al Kiram were recorded and co-produced by Fadi Tabbal from renowned Lebanese recording studio Tunefork. Murur Al-Kiram was released by Ruptured in the winter of 2020, in the early days of the bloody Lebanese uprising and the Covid-19 pandemic. Kinematik spent the best part of 2020 under lockdown, trying to come to grips with Lebanon's and the world's new realities, battling societal, economical and sanitary hurdles and obstacles. In November 2020, upon receiving an invitation from Irtijal Festival in Beirut to perform in its 20th edition, the former trio evolved into a full-blown ensemble, comprising a total of 6 musicians - the core line-up of Anthony Sahyoun, Rudy Ghafari and Akram Hajj was joined by modular synth players Jad Atoui and Ziad Moukarzel, as well as drummer Teddy Tawil. The Irtijal performance laid the roots for a series of recording sessions, that coalesced a few months later into the long-form, elaborate compositions that make up Al Jadi, the band's third album - 4 slabs of brooding, elegiac post-rock, recorded and mixed by Fadi Tabbal, mastered by Harris Newman of Greymarket fame.

Ensemble 1: Al Jadi

Music GB