روجيه فخر

There are albums that whisper across time rather than shout—and East of Any Place is one of them. Recorded in the shadows of civil war-torn Beirut during the 1970s, Roger Fakhr’s long-lost masterpiece is a hushed and haunting folk odyssey: intimate, world-weary, and quietly transcendent.

Fakhr’s voice feels like it’s coming from just beyond the curtain—melancholy but warm, fragile yet steady. His guitar work, delicate and dexterous, evokes Nick Drake or Tim Buckley, while the subtle inflections of Levantine melody and language bring an unmistakable sense of place. But this isn’t just “Arabic folk” or a regional artifact. It’s far more personal—universal, even—in its tone of exile, longing, and inner search.

The production is stripped, lo-fi in the most organic sense, yet rich in atmosphere. You hear rooms, air, footsteps—life. These are songs written not for charts, but for survival. A deeply human record, East of Any Place offers not just a glimpse into Lebanon’s underground scene, but into one man’s poetic reckoning with love, displacement, and time.

A lost treasure of 1970s Beirut, East of Any Place is Lebanese singer-songwriter Roger Fakhr’s intimate, soul-baring folk masterpiece. With gentle guitar, hushed vocals, and poetic reflections on exile and love, this timeless vinyl is a quiet triumph of vulnerability and beauty from the margins.