joseph ghosn / charbel haber “between birthdays” c70 cassette

• between birthdays (35:00)

palmiers pyramides tapes press release...

between birthdays a collaborative release recorded by joseph ghosn (electronics) & charbel haber (guitar & electricity). one album-length track recorded in paris, with beirut in mind. same program plays on both sides. a palmiers pyramides tapes release. edition on 50 copies. between birthdays – a tape by joseph ghosn & charbel haber [2011] september 15, 2011 by zawfal last june, my musician and writer friend joseph ghosn spent a few days in beirut. we met on a couple of occasions, spoke about the abandoned grand piano in his neighbor’s house in the lebanese mountains and the cd compilation i was planning to release later in august, with a track of his recorded in radio lebanon for ruptures. he also gave me this tape. “you’re the one to get it,” he said. joe has a fetish for tapes, and he knows i do too. “what is it,” i exclaimed, trying to refrain my enthusiasm. “oh, just a little thing charbel and i recorded in one week, a few years back. listen to it.” i have listened to it many times since then. between birthdays is joe ghosn’s first tape release for his discipline musical persona; it consists of one elongated drone, a musical dialogue between ghosn and guitar player-extraordinaire charbel haber, incorporating fuzzy swathes of guitar and discreet layers of glitchy synthesizers. it’s difficult to tell who’s doing what. the piece meanders wonderfully, veers from instrumental post-rock to ambient electronica, recalls oneohtrix point never on some occasions, opts for pure noise on other occasions… a shadowy voice speaks a few detached words, a synth line recalls discipline’s soundtrack for the film “beyrouth”… and the drone fades into oblivion once, twice, before picking up again. the stuff that dreams are made of (for).

discipline “en provence” long playing record

• en provence (1)
  
  
• en provence (2)

new old “warm leatherette b/w couscous boulettium” seven inch single record

• warm leatherette
  
  
• couscous boulettium

scum yr earth press release...

syr 02 : new old « warm leatherette / couscous boulettium » reprises de the normal et odeurs machines, voix, champs-elysées baléariques.

discipline “beyrouth” digital versatile disc and double one-sided seven inch record set

• dvd - beyrouth
  
  
• 7” #1 - part 1
  
• 7” #2 - part 2