Tabbal, Fadi
Museum of Disappearing Buildings INCOMPETENTS
1 A Bridge
2 A Glass Tower
3 A Hill With A Hole
4 A Bridge Across The Precipice
5 Doll's House
6 Wandering Turtle In A Maze Of A Big City
7 A Bridge Across The Precipice In The High Mountains
8 A Monument Of The Year 2000
9 Crystal Palace
Fadi Tabbal, lead guitarist with Lebanese psychedelic rock band The Incompetents and various other alternative outfits, releases his second solo album, Museum of Disappearing Buildings , in November 2015. This album continues further the work of sound exploration through guitar treatments, which began with On the Rooftop Looking Up in 2013. While the young guitarist's first album featured a finely-devised interaction of ambient soundscapes and John Fahey-inspired finger-picking acoustic meanderings, this second solo outing adopts a different approach: it relies on an interplay of ambient guitar drones and grainy electronics, which recalls to a degree the work of early Krautrock vanguard artists from the 1970 s, the leftfield exploration of British electro-acoustic practitioners from the mid-1970's, as well as the radical works of American minimalistic composers from the 1960's.