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>>record store owner named Diran Mardirian, one of the top purveyors of Middle Eastern music online, spends his days running Chico Records out of Beirut. The city has been under Israeli attack, and yet Mardirian continues to operate the longtime shop that once belonged to his tastemaker father. “The war right now is very cynical, very ugly, very brutal, and I think being in the store gives [my customers] a sense of normalcy, if only very briefly,<< (via hearing things)