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Jerusalem In My Heart - Discography (2013-2018)

Jerusalem In My Heart - Discography (2013-2018)
Bio
Jerusalem In My Heart (JIMH) has been a live audio-visual happening since 2005, with Montréal-based producer and musician Radwan Ghazi Moumneh at its core. Moumneh is a Lebanese national who has spent a large part of his adult life in Canada and has been a fixture of the Montréal independent music community from his early days as guitarist in various notable 90s bands to his tireless activity as a sound engineer and producer over the last decade. Moumneh is also active in the Beirut and Lebanese experimental music scenes, where he spends a few months every year.

With performances occurring 1-3 times per year, no two Jerusalem In My Heart events have ever been the same: configurations have ranged from 2 to 24 participants, with varying degrees of theatrical stage action alongside a film/video component. Moumneh's vocals and purposefully blown-out sonic sensibility have been the consistent thread, but the music of JIMH has never repeated itself either – one of the reasons Moumneh has resisted any official documentation or definitive recording of the project over the past eight years. At long last, in 2012 Moumneh cleared time and mental space to record a song cycle that cements the foundations of JIMH as an intensely vocal-driven musical project.

JIMH has always been an immersive sonic and visual live experience; on the musical side, an evolving effort to forge a modern experimental Arabic music that weds melismatic singing in classical Arabic modes to electronic compositions with a punk-rock production sensibility. Mo7it Al-Mo7it captures and conveys all of this, while emphasising the intimacy and narrative pace that focused, intentional studio recording allows. The result is a unique and profoundly emotive album of contemporary Arabic music, a stunningly subtle first record for a musical project that resisted documentation or any sort of fixity for so many years. Moumneh's voice has become a powerfully authentic instrument and his production techniques – applying distortion, space echo and delay to varying degrees – lend a timeless intensity to the recording. Saturated synths and the overdriven signals of Moumneh's acoustic playing on buzuk and zurna reinforce the reigning sensibility, providing bracing counterpoint to the vocals and lovely, searching instrumental narratives in their own right.

Jerusalem In My Heart currently exists around the core of Radwan Ghazi Moumneh carrying musical duties and Montreal filmmaker Charles-André Coderre projecting hand-made visuals using analog 16mm film & 35mm slides on multiple site-specific screen installations.

2013 Mo7it Al-Mo7it
01. Jerusalem in My Heart - Koll Lil-Mali7ati Fi Al-Khimar Al-Aswadi (Speak of the Woman in the Black Robe)
02. Jerusalem in My Heart - 3andalib Al-Furat (Nightingale of the Euphrates)
03. Jerusalem in My Heart - Yudaghdegh El-ra3ey Walal-Ghanam (He Titillates the Shepherd, but not the Sheep…)
04. Jerusalem in My Heart - 3anzah Jarbanah (Sick, Diseased Goat)
05. Jerusalem in My Heart - Dam3et El-3ein 3 (Oh Tear of the Eye 3)
06. Jerusalem in My Heart - Ko7l El-3ein, 3emian El-3ein (Eyeliner of the Eye, Blindness of the Eye)
07. Jerusalem in My Heart - Amanem (Amanem)

2015 If He Dies, If If If If If If
01. Jerusalem in My Heart - Al Affaq, Lau Mat, Lau Lau Lau Lau Lau Lau (The Hypocrite, If He Dies, If If If If If If)
02. Jerusalem in My Heart - A Granular Buzuk
03. Jerusalem in My Heart - 7ebr El 3oyoun (Ink From The Eyes)
04. Jerusalem in My Heart - Qala Li Kafa Kafa Kafa Kafa Kafa Kafa (To Me He Said Enough Enough Enough Enough Enough Enough)
05. Jerusalem in My Heart - Lau Ridyou Bil Hijaz (What If The Hijaz Was Enough)
06. Jerusalem in My Heart - Ta3mani; Ta3meitu (He Fed Me; I Fed Him)
07. Jerusalem in My Heart - Ah Ya Mal El Sham (Oh The Money of Syria)
08. Jerusalem in My Heart - 2asmar Sa7ar (The Brown One Cast A Spell)

2015 Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart
01. Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart - 2amoutu I7tirakan
02. Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart - Metal
03. Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart - Seif
04. Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart - In Touch
05. Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart - Gazelles In Flight
06. Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart - Leyla
07. Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart - 3attam Babey

2018 Daqa'iq Tudaiq Hi-Res
01. Jerusalem in My Heart - Koll Lil-Mali7ati Fi Al-Khimar Al-Aswadi (Speak of the Woman in the Black Robe) (2:55)
02. Jerusalem in My Heart - 3andalib Al-Furat (Nightingale of the Euphrates) (9:47)
03. Jerusalem in My Heart - Yudaghdegh El-ra3ey Walal-Ghanam (He Titillates the Shepherd, but not the Sheep…) (3:22)
04. Jerusalem in My Heart - 3anzah Jarbanah (Sick, Diseased Goat) (6:34)
05. Jerusalem in My Heart - Dam3et El-3ein 3 (Oh Tear of the Eye 3) (5:10)
06. Jerusalem in My Heart - Ko7l El-3ein, 3emian El-3ein (Eyeliner of the Eye, Blindness of the Eye) (3:56)
07. Jerusalem in My Heart - Amanem (Amanem) (8:53)

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