Jerusalem In My Heart (Jimh) Is A Live Audio-Visual Performance Project, With Lebanese-Canadian Producer/Musician Radwan Ghazi Moumneh And Montréal Based Filmmaker Erin Weisgerber At Its Core. Jimh Is An Immersive Sonic And Visual Live Experience And An Evolving Effort To Forge A Modern Experimental Arabic Music Wed To Hand-Made Visuals Using Analog 16mm Film At Site-Specific Screen Installations. One Of The Most Renowned And Uncompromising Entities Working In 21st Century Avant-Garde Arab-Levantine Art And Music, Jerusalem In My Heart Presents A New Album Of Vital And Haunting Electronics And Electroacoustics, Framed By Founder And Producer Radwan Ghazi Moumneh's Spoken And Sung Arabic, Buzuk-Playing And Sound Design. Qalaq Is The Most Distilled, Variegated And Finely Wrought Jerusalem In My Heart Album To Date - Featuring A Different Guest/Collaborator On Every Track, Yet As Cohesive, Emotionally Resonant, Sonically Adventurous And Narratively Powerful As Any Release In Jimh's Celebrated Discography. Guests Across The Album's 13 Tracks Include Moor Mother, Tim Hecker, Lucrecia Dalt, Greg Fox, Beirut, Alanis Obomsawin, Rabih Beaini And Many More. "Qalaq" Is An Arabic Word With Many Shades Of Meaning But Moumneh Particularly Intends It As "Deep Worry" - On Various Obvious Global Levels, But Also Specifically With Respect To Lebanon: Its Collapsing Domestic Politics, Economy And Infrastructure; The Tragedy And Aftermath Of The 2020 Beirut Port Explosion; The Intractable Geography And Geopolitics That Continue To Condemn The Country To Corruption, Disruption, Destabilization And Violence.

Trackliste

A1 Abyad Barraq (With Greg Fox)
A2 Sa'at (With Alexei Perry Cox)
A3 Istashraqtaq (With Beirut)
A4 Tanto (With Lucrecia Dalt)
A5 Ana Lisan Wahad (With Farida Amadou & Pierre-Guy Blanchard)
B1 Qalaq 1 (With Alanis Obomsawin & Diana Combo)
B2 Qalaq 2 (With Roger Tellier-Craig)
B3 Qalaq 3 (With Moor Mother)
B4 Qalaq 4 (With Rabih Beaini)
B5 Qalaq 5 (With Oiseaux-Tempete)
B6 Qalaq 6 (With Viz Reka Csiszer)
B7 Qalaq 7 (With Tim Hecker)
B8 Qalaq 9 (With Mayss, Mazen Kerbaj, Sharif Sehnaoui & Raed Yassin)