MAWADα is a hybrid production and DJing project of Beirut based translator, Rayyan Abdelkhalek. It explores voice, ritual and community-based healing. Born in recall to the Beirut underground movements in the early 2000s that revolved around discreet yet highly inclusive acid, hardcore and experimental parties in-and-around the city, MAWADα’s practice is ever-evolving.
Through bringing together different elements from techno, prayer, noise, pop and club cultures, MAWADα seeks to instigate and nurture collective affect through music.
Hiro Kone Tracklist
Sylvain Chauveau + Chant 1450 Renaissance Ensemble – Tres morillas + Juan del Encina: Pues que tu reina + Mi libertad
Maria Bethânia – É de Manhã
Guillaume de Machaut (Ensemble Organum & Marcel Pérès) – Messe de Notre-Dama
Sou Si-Tai – 歸去來辭
Dakn داكنْ – line break
Ahcène Adjroud – Athamourth-iw Album
Andrew Oda – Sotto / Spirit
The Threshold Houseboys Choir – There And Back
Dolly Parton – Silver Dagger
The Bug Ft Dis Fig – You
Yantan Ministry – From Harm
9T Antiope – Dose I (Danse Macabre)
Pauline Anna Strom – Marking Time
lojii – No Ebola
Galeshka Moravioff – Musiques Plastiques N°8
Syanide – Rabies
Denny Doherty – Gathering the Words
Saint Abdullah – Battlefield Culture (ft. Travis Laplante)
MAWADa Tracklist
Lara Sarkissian – A Ceremony (For Arax)
Professional Mourner Hasiba Hashem Laments Ali Al Akbar (ع) and Al Kassem (ع)
Æthereal Arthropod – Untarnished Metempsychosis of Cicada
Yunis – Hajar Al-Sha’yan
BAMBA PANA – BARAFU
Cut Hands – Munkisi Munkondi
Meshuggah – Bleed
Aisha Devi – O.M.A
Cut Hands – Four Crosses (++++)
Safa – 8th Theme (Hometown OST)
Carl Stone – Shing Kee
MAWADa – Often When I Imagine You (Anthony X Rilke)
理Grouper – Vanishing point
Wham! – Last Christmas (Slowed down x10times)
The Knife – Reindeer
Valgeir Sigurðsson – The Crumbling
Untitled – Untitled
Jung An Tagen – Compressions in a Chamber of Hard Light
Nina Simone – Live at Montreux Jazz Festival (1976)
Venetian Snares – My Crutch