Camille Cabbabe

My first solo album K2 is out on @rupturedthelabel available on all platforms. I edited a film for it, you can watch it on YouTube. You can also buy a tape on Bandcamp (all links in bio) 🌝 Mixed and drum-machined by @fadi_tabbal at @tuneforkstudios 💚 Design by @josettekhalil 💚 Huge thanks to @ramzi.mrn ♥️ @fadi_tabbal , @juliasabra , @pas_makdous , @tamarasaade_ , manal z, @adaharb , @maraingea , @georgyflouty , @josettekhalil and @z.nawfal 💚 About the album: My brother Karim passed away in August 2014. He loved music, animals, and okra. He often wrote philosophical manifestos that only made sense to him, and would get angry when it didn’t make sense to everyone else. He was funny, sensitive and misunderstood, an eternal teenager forced to live an adult’s life. For a while I was afraid to write a solo album, because I knew that it would be about him. I knew that I would have to sit with my memories and think about what it was like to know him and lose him. In the summer of 2023, I finally decided to start recording songs from ideas I’ve had over the past 10 years. While composing, I set restrictions for myself to make sure I would get something done: 18 tracks, no longer than 3 minutes, recorded at home using only the gear I had. Each song connected to a memory, and as a whole, a jumbled timeline of meeting and grieving my brother. I edited a film to go along with the album, because it made more sense to me as a soundtrack. Most of the footage was shot by my mom in Hong Kong, where Karim lived at the time. The rest I gathered over the years, filming my family obsessively after I realized how little recorded images I had of my brother. While editing, I tried to recreate the feeling of each memory using footage I already had. It was frustrating, because recorded memories are often not the ones you want to remember the most. The memories that stick are the unrecorded ones, the unexpected moments and conversations that are so captivating that you wouldn’t think to record them in the moment. They will never be clear images, but a version of them exists in my mind, which will fade eventually, and another version now exists in these songs and visuals.

4 days of music at @oakenhouse 💚🐦 feat. @juliasabra thanks for the food & the tourism 💚🌴

"Moon & Domino" from my album K2. You can watch the full movie on YouTube (link in bio) 🤸🏻‍♀️🌝

Played a short opening set for @juliasabra last night 💚🫂 first time playing some songs from K2 live 🤸🏻‍♀️ Thank you @fadi_tabbal for the sound 💚 And @riwaqbeirut for having us 🫶🏼 And everyone who showed up 🫶🏻 first video by @tamarasaade_ 🥰

الثلاثاء! 13.05.25 موسيقى حيّة مع جوليا صبرا X كامي كبّابة، و زياد مكرزل عالميكسر عالسّاعة ٨ المسا. 🔸جوليا صبرا رح تعزف ألبومها الفردي الأوّل “Natural History Museum” احتفالاً بإطلاق نسخة الفاينِل (10 إنش)، بالإضافة لأغاني مختارة من ألبوماتها السابقة مع فرقتي Postcards وSnakeskin. 🔸كامي كبّابة رح تفتتح الأمسية بمجموعة صغيرة من أغاني ألبومها الأول “K2”، يلي صدر على كاسيت بشهر شباط 2025. 🔸واخيراً وليس اخراً المكرزل عالميكسر، مع مجموعة مميزة من أغانيه المفضلة… مكرزل هو الاول والأخير، ملك الميكسر، الغيتار والسينث هو الأذن الخارجية الوسطى والداخلية، غربال الموسيقى بكل ألوانها وأنواعها. • الدخول: 15$ + كاس، او الدفع حسب القدرة. • البطاقات متوفرة على الباب عند الدخول. Tuesday! 13.05.25 Live music with @juliasabra X @ccabbabe and @ziad_mouka THE DECKS at 8:00 PM 🔸Julia Sabra will be playing her debut solo album “Natural History Museum” to celebrate the release of the 10” vinyl, along with other songs from her albums with @postcardsmusic and @snakeskinmusic 🔸Camille Cabbabe will play a small selection of songs from hre debut album “K2”, released in February 2025 on tape. 🔸Last but definitely not least: Ziad on the Decks, with a handpicked selection of his favorite tracks. Mouka is the one and only — king of the mix, the guitar, and the synths. He’s the outer, middle, and inner ear; the ultimate musical filter across all genres and colors. •Entry: 15$ + regular drink, or pay what you want +/- • Tickets are available at the door.

"K2" tapes available at @fizzbeirut for 10$ 🤸🏻‍♀️ (or DM me to reserve yours)

Album of the Day: @ccabbabe Camille Cabbabe - K2 ( @rupturedthelabel ) K2 is a deeply personal album by Lebanese filmmaker and musician Camille Cabbabe, inspired by the memory of her late brother, Karim, who passed away in 2014. This introspective project intertwines song and visual storytelling, capturing a complex timeline of grief, memory, and familial love. LISTEN: /album/k2 . . . #albumoftheday #recordoftheday #staffpicks #camillecabbabe #ruptured #lebanese #lebanon #alternative #folk #indiefolk #indiepop #beirut #theatticalbums #theattic

Lebanese musician and filmmaker CAMILLE CABBABE @ccabbabe is the guest on Ziad Nawfal’s April broadcast for Stegi Radio @stegiradio in Athens. Catch Camille’s set this TUESDAY 01 APRIL, at 3 PM Montréal / 10 PM Athens + Beirut on Stegi Radio Camille’s first solo album K2 was released by Ruptured back in February. Listen to it at the link in our bio, it’s absolutely beautiful. — TRACK LISTING — Aphex Twin: Alberto Balsalm Brian Eno: This Interbellum: For Air KŌZŌ 構造: Capsule Tower Camille Cabbabe: The Last Time Massive Attack: Protection SANAM: Ayouha Al-Taiin Fi Al-Mawt Faten Kanaan: Fin août, début septembre Angelo Badalamenti: Twin Peaks Theme Cosmic Analog Ensemble: Ohms and Watts Alko B: Whenever It Gets Dark The Bunny Tylers: I’ll Make It Up To You Kinematik: Muhibbi Al-Kanari Snakeskin: Bodies Vegyn: Big Fun Never Ending Nightmare [75bpm] Camille Cabbabe: Visitors The Incompetents: Grey Midas Following the broadcast, the mix will be archived on Stegi Radio: https://stegi.radio/ Portrait of Camille Cabbabe by Tamara Saadé @tamarasaade_ @greedy_ears @snakeskinmusic @juliasabra @fadi_tabbal @knmtklb @anthony____sahyoun @sandy_chamoun @thebunnytylers @barbelbaber @brianeno @aphextwin.afx @salimnaffah @cosmicanalogensemble @charifmegarbane @fatenkanaan @kozoband @massiveattackofficial @sanam.music_ @interbellummusic @vegynvegyn @akramhajj

Mighty glad whenever Daryl Worthington @daryl.worthington reviews a cassette release by Ruptured, in this case Camille Cabbabe’s terribly moving K2: “We’re invited into an intimate map of the marks one person can leave on another. The music is joyful while the hazy production infuses a sense of fleetingness throughout. When there are vocals we’re given snapshots, fragments of anecdotes blurring into one another, stories and recollections processed through the shimmer. On ‘Pulling It Off’ a moving depiction of how someone who’s passed away can continue to be present long after they’re gone. K2 is a celebration of Karim, and a testament that feeling loss is in itself life-affirming.” Read Daryl’s Spool’s Out column over at thequietus.com @thequietus . Elsewhere at sun-13.com @sun13music , Simon Kirk calls K2 “absolute gold dust (…) an emotive work said to reflect on grief, memory, and family, (and) the sort of record that opens a pathway to new possibilities. And good ones too, in what is a very strong debut outing from Cabbabe.” Grateful to him for taking the time to listen. Lastly, K2 rubs shoulders with the greats (claire rousay, Kali Malone, Nala Sinephro, and Kelly Lee Owens, among others), on Alex Ruder’s terrific broadcast “Pacific Notions” on KEXP @kexp . You can stream the show anytime before March 23rd from KEXP’s 2-week streaming archives or from the KEXP app. We still have a handful of Camille’s cassettes available to purchase on our Bandcamp page (link in bio). And peeps in Montreal, feel free to DM us for a copy, we deliver within (geographic) reason 🛴 @ccabbabe @josettekhalil @fadi_tabbal @tuneforkstudios

Camille Cabbabé’s K2 on KEXP & Apple Music! Happy to see K2 reaching new ears — “Moon & Domino” played on Alex Ruder’s Pacific Notions broadcast @kexp and “Probably Not” featured on the INDIY playlist @applemusic . Big thanks to everyone supporting this release 🙌 Out now on Ruptured on digital + cassette (limited edition of 50 tapes, of which a handful remains) Portrait of Camille by Tamara Saadé @tamarasaade_ @ccabbabe @fadi_tabbal @tuneforkstudios @cargoindependentdistribution

🚨 New Release: Camille Cabbabe – K2 🚨 Ruptured is proud to present K2, the debut solo album by Lebanese filmmaker and musician Camille Cabbabe @ccabbabe , out February 21, 2025, on cassette and digital. Written in memory of her late brother, Karim, K2 is a collection of 18 short, intimate pieces, recorded at home over the summer of 2023. The album reflects on the passage of time and the way certain moments—whether captured or not—stay with us. Each track is a snapshot, a sonic imprint of memories that remain vivid despite their impermanence. The album is accompanied by a film, created from home videos and personal footage, offering a visual counterpart to the music. While K2 stands alone as an album, its connection to the film deepens the experience, blending sound and image into a layered reflection on memory. The film can be viewed on Ruptured’s YouTube channel at /rupturedthelabel Composed, recorded and performed by Camille Cabbabe, except for the vocals on “Casamento” recorded by Fadi Tabbal at Tunefork Studios, and additional guitar on “Different” and “Crows” performed by Karim Kabbabe. Rhythm Wolf by Fadi Tabbal. Produced by Camille Cabbabe and Fadi Tabbal @fadi_tabbal . Mixed by Fadi Tabbal at @tuneforkstudios , Beirut. Mastered by Lopazz at Mix Mastering, Germany. Design by Josette “ZOoz” Khalil @josettekhalil . 🔗 Orders now available via our linktree. Cassettes are limited to 50 copies. Portrait of Camille by Tamara Saadé @tamarasaade_

Wrote a short story that will be published in this book (the first ever Arab anthology) along with 9 other amazing short stories by very talented writers 💚 The project will be launching soon on kickstarter, if you're interested "turn on notifications" to be notified when the book is launched (link in bio) 🤸🏻‍♀️✨