Study Of A Dead End

The Mad Laboratory Of Anti-Matter is a free and improvised music duo based in Beirut.
Created in 2022 by multi-instrumentalist Nadia Daou (NÂR) and clarinettist Paed Conca, an iconic figure on the improvised music scene.
Raw and industrial, the dark soundscape of this laboratory is an exploration of the void and everything that can be found and emanate from it: a sensory, physical, timeless experience. The trance-like quality of repetitive music is combined here with industrial noise. Intense and hypnotic rhythms, a constant search for textures and nuances, and an unconditional love for raw and total art.

‘We work a bit like architects, but with sound... We build little by little, until it becomes a big block of concrete and steel, a kind of brutalist monument. After that, we turn it into a temple...’
‘Our music is a kind of sonic brutalism.’

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Nadia Daou, aka Nâr, is a Lebanese multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer based in Beirut, creating raw and immersive sonic experiences. Her music blends a wide range of influences including Middle Eastern microtonality, North African trance traditions, industrial music, and avant-garde electronic forms

Paed Conca has been active for over 30 years on the contemporary and improvised music scene as a clarinettist and bassist. He collaborates with numerous musicians and composes for theatre, dance and cinema.
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released October 31, 2025

Nadia Daou: time machine | vocals | electronics
Paed Conca: clarinet | electronics
Recorded by Rabih Beaini at Morphine Raum, Berlin and by Fadi Tabbal at Tunefork Studio, Beirut
Mixed by Roman Hiele
Mastered and lacquer cut by Frédéric Alstadt, Angström Mastering
Cover photo by Christopher Grove @voodoodisko
Artwork by Lundi Loiseau
2025 ℗ moli del tro records, brussels