LILIANE CHLELA PRODUCER DJ SOUND ARTIST
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LILIANE CHLELA PRODUCER • DJ • SOUND ARTIST
MONTREAL/BEIRUT
PERFORMANCE: LIVE | DJ
Producer, DJ and performer Liliane Chlela is known for her distinct sound
treatment, pushing the boundaries of sound, movement and listening on
both the electronic and experimental scenes in Lebanon and the Middle
East/West Asia and North Africa.
Liliane constructs a characteristic sound both as a composer/producer
and as a hybrid DJ. She further explores the connections between
improvisation and sonic manipulation by approaching numerous musical
genres with her signature techniques. Her electrifying DJ sets stir
audiences to move and propel the limits of their hearing experience into
new frontiers and prompting audacious approaches to sound.
Her work saw her perform as a solo artist regionally and internationaly,
but also as a versatile collaborator with regional and international acts
from Mashrou’ Leila’s Hamed Sinno, to acclaimed multi-instrumentalist
and composer Khyam Allami up to Björn Meyer.
With four albums under her belt, her latest album Safala’s conceptual
approach blended field-recordings, memories and incantations with brave
new sounds, and saw her premiering it at UK’s Tusk Festival. She closed
2021 with two much lauded performances at The Cinémathèque
québécoise, Canada, supporting highly regarded Lebanese artist
Jerusalem in My Heart. The line-up also included Egypt's experimental
artist Nada El Shazly. In 2022 she was selected as one of the Keychange
Artist and Innovators Participants.
lilianechlela.bandcamp.com Liliane’s multi-sensory flair for adventure saw her developing her aural and
visual skills to apply them in other disciplines such as fashion films,
youtube.com/c/LilianeChlela interactive installations and performance art. As a result, her work boasts
instagram.com/lilianechlela a diverse and audacious sound palette, making Chlela one of the most
multifaceted female producers/musicians in the Middle East/West Asia
soundcloud.com/lilianechlela and North Africa.
E: mgmt@lilianechlela.media - M: +1 (514) 776 5167
RELEASES
ALBUMS/EP’S
Turbulence - Infinite Moment of Composure
2012 Syrphe
Lullaby for monsters - Liliane Chlela
2012 Amygdala Records
MALIGN/BENIGN - Liliane Chlela
2020 Amygdala Records
LIPSYNC - The Butcher’s Bride
2020
SAFALA - Liliane Chlela
2021 Amygdala Records
BOILER ROOM 2018 [LIVE SET]
BOILER ROOM 2020 [DJ SET]
DJ SETS
https://soundcloud.com/lilianechlela/sets/dj-sets
SAFALA
VIDEO ART
RELEASE DATE MAY 27, 2021 Relentless and heavy dark electronic beats mingle with anger and anguish on Liliane
AMYGDALA RECORDS 2021 Chlela’s latest album “Safala”. The Lebanese producer and hybrid DJ tapped into her
personal memories to bring forth a sonic concoction anchored in the inherited oral
PRODUCTION LILIANE CHLELA epistemologies of her ancestors. Memories intertwine with Beirut, using incantations
MIXING KHYAM ALLAMI inherited from Chlela’s grandmother as building blocks to build an eight track album.
MASTERING From warding off the evil eye to protest sounds from the past year of events in Leba-
JESSE OSBORNE-LANTHIER non, the album haunts the listener to invoke a striking elegy on terror and anger, while
inducing a rollercoaster of sonic eruptions.
Alongside the aural journey, Chlela has worked with Beirut based visual arts and
design specialists Studio Kawakeb to produce a specially commissioned video art
based on the album. Studio Kawakeb were given free reign over their artistic input on
‘Safala’ referencing events from Lebanon while using images and videos from archival
footage going back to 2015. The video art unfolds in the form of an “audio-visual”
correspondence between events, sounds and creativity in an artistic commentary on
what has been happening in Lebanon. Studio Kawakeb also skillfully implemented
striking graphic design to ornament the scenes and induce a thought provoking socio-
political canvas ornamented with key idioms.
Most of the sound palette was organically produced to mimic the remains of situa-
tions during which Chlela’s sonic memory aligned with the ‘keywords’ from the afore-
mentioned incantations.
WATCH PROMO VIDEO
SAFALA VIDEO ART
“2022” MUSIC VIDEO 3D animation by Ruggero Lupo Mengoni, Art direction by Yasmine Saliba and Ruggero Lupo Mengoni, produced by Polarys Collective. This project was entirely made from home, in quarantine, Spring 2020.
BOILER ROOM 2018 BOILER ROOM 2019 BOILER ROOM 2020
PRESS
EP REVIEW - MA3AZEF
https://bit.ly/3m78q6S
EP REVIEW - SCENENOISE
https://scenenoise.com/Reviews/lebanese-producer-liliane-chlel
as-new-ep-malignbenign-is-ahead-of-its-time-literally
MUSIC VIDEO REVIEW
https://scenenoise.com/New-Music/rave-of-the-future-liliane-chl
ela-releases-crazy-dystopian-video-for-2022
THE BUTCHER’S BRIDE SINGLE REVIEW
https://scenenoise.com/New-Music/the-butchers-bride-lebanes
e-duo-hamed-sinno-liliane-chlela-release-first-single-lipsync
VICE, I -D
https://thefifthsense.i-d.co/en_gb/article/sound-of-the-undergro
und-meet-the-female-pioneers-of-beiruts-growing-nightlife-scene
REVOLVER
http://projectrevolver.org/features/interviews/surrender-to-the-r
ALBUM REVIEW - DJOLO obot-the-liliane-chlela-interview/
http://djolo.net/loue-soit-liliane-chlela-et-son-divin-et-brutal-safala/
FEMME MAGAZINE
https://www.pressreader.com/lebanon/femme-magazine/20170
ALBUM REVIEW - SCENENOISE 810/282003262522375
https://scenenoise.com/New-Music/Liliane-Chlela-Dives-Deeper-into
-Darkness-in-New-Album-Safal
AGENDA CULTUREL
FEATURE - THE NATIONAL http://www.agendaculturel.com/Musique_The_Wedding_Recepti
https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/music/the-21-arab on_union_du_son_de_la_voix_et_de_l_image
-independent-musicians-you-should-be-listening-to-right-now
L’ORIENT LE JOUR
PREMIERE - MA3AZEF https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1057489/hamed-sinno-et-
https://bit.ly/3iAOZVU liliane-chlela-duo-inedit-pour-mariage-vintage.html
TECH RIDER
LIVE SET D.I. BOXES LINK TO PROJECTOR
L R
P.A.system well-tuned to ensure a good coverage
of the venue free of any noise, buzz or hum
Technical needs from venue: MOTU
-2 x monitors 2 way 15” or 12” LAPTOP 1 LAPTOP 2 SP555
-2 x DI boxes (main out from soundcard L / R) VISUALS
-1 x Laptop riser / stand
-3 x jack/jack cables
MICROKORG XL KP3
-1 x table (± 60x30”)
-6 x power outlets
Visuals
-1 x digital projector linked to
-1 x laptop to play video file on Quicktime or VLC
Laptop placed on artist table.
Visuals will be provided by artist.
If laptop is unavailable please let us know ahead of
time and please provide cable with USB C input
DJ SET
1x DJM-900NXS2 (or newer)
E liliane.chlela@gmail.com 2x CDJs Model: 2000NXS2 (or newer)
M +1 (514) 776 5167 1 x Monitor
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