One of Beirut's leading musical activists, Marc Codsi has got his hands dirty with several different bands, such as Scrambled Eggs, pop duo Lumi, and several ensembles in the Lebanese free improvisation scene. Now his first solo outing is released in the form of his Faded Postcards LP - a collection of brooding, ambient sound scapes exploring time, space and memory. Download it and bust out those Super8's from the attic.

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There’s a dreamy quality to the music videos, which Zeid Hamdan aka Shift Z makes for himself and other members of the underground music scene in Beirut. In one, Heba el Mansouri sings in a lilting, Arabic style, eyes half-closed as her husband swings her in circles next to a broken shoreline. Another home made video, for Shift Z’s New Government project, swings between electro and electric guitars. It starts off with snippets taken while cruising down a highway, under wide-open skies. Footage of band practise erupts into wartime scenes of flaming vehicles and smoky streets.

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