Numbered edition of 50 enclosed in O-card sleeve w/ 2-sided insert.
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Fadi Tabbal’s 4th solo album is a masterful excursion into melodic drones and intricate contemporary classical arrangements. Using nothing but guitars, Music for the Lonely Vol.1 (2017-2018) is an exploration of stolen moments of solitude in the alienating and crowded city of Beirut. Transcendent yet emotive, redolent of the astounding combination of beauty and dysfunction that makes present-day Lebanon what it is, diving into these songs feels a bit like peering through the stifling mid-day heat of Beirut out over the hazy blue of the Mediterranean. As Tabbal writes, the songs “are an attempt at escape, through alternate storylines, mathematical concepts, or, simply, through sleep.“
In addition to handling engineering and production tasks at Tunefork Studios, which he founded in 2006, Tabbal is a specialist in sound design and conception. He has worked on a variety of projects, including sound and music installations for museums, theatre, and film. He has been the technical director of Irtijal, the region’s leading experimental music festival, since 2011, and has been teaching sound at the Académie Libanaise Des Beaux-Arts since 2012. Possibly the busiest man in Lebanon, he also is a member of Stress/Distress, The Bunny Tylers, Scrambled Eggs, and The Incompetents.
"Lebanese guitarist Fadi Tabbal renders a shimmering dreamworld of hallucinatory structures and ambient panoramas in the gauzy gaze of ‘Museum of Disappearing Buildings’, which now appears on Portland’s Beacon Sound after an under-the-radar digital release in 2015, replete with two big highlights in the keening harmonics of ‘Wandering Turtle In a Maze of a Big Ciy’ and the awe-inspiring, trance-inducing flux of ‘Crystal Palace’. RIYL the towering cloud cities of Popol Vuh, the windswept grit of Fennesz, or Forest Swords at his most wistful.” – Boomkat review of Tabbal’s previous album co-released by Beacon Sound and Ruptured
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