19/05/2020
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.traboulsi
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In 1994, designed this CD (it’s a coaster in a CD case) with a booklet that tells the story of the pub/club B018, opening in Sinn el Fil. It was almost the first club I went to, many times after drinks with and at Abou Elie (with ). I was underage hanging out with the older ones, and Beirut was coming out of the war. It was seen as a very underground place (alcohol, g**s and drugs they said), and the Beirut that surrounded us at the time was not. The inside walls were filled with wooden panels, the kind we find in old damascene palaces, on which were written in golden arabic calligraphy, the names of artists one could hear there (from Miles Davis to Linton Kwesi Johnson, who -I discovered much later- had studied where I later did my masters: Goldmisths). These wooden panels were then used as the decoration of Sheikh Manqoush, a nice cheap brunch place where Doculand Bliss is now. I think .nawfal was playing at B018 then and I didn’t know him yet, or is this where we met? and I spent some mad nights dancing there alone or with strangers. The last page of this booklet stayed, for years, the base on which I built my musical taste. This item I have preserved with lots of care. And for those who were at B018 during those years, it was something (I have such clear memories there or in its successor Orange Mecanique with Nesrine Mounira Tania Mayssa Eddie Christine Rafic Marwan Ernesto Michel Khaled Rayya Naji Asmara Christophe Fares Alia and more). @ Sin el Fil - Beirut, Lebanon
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