Jerusalem in My Heart - Qalaq - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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 in JIMH's celebrated discography. Guests across the album's 13 tracks include Moor Mother, Tim Hecker, Lucrecia Dalt, Greg Fox, Alanis Obomsawin, Rabih Beaini and many more.InchQalaqInch is an Arabic word with many shades of meaning but Moumneh particularly intends it as Inchdeep worryInch - on various obvious global levels, but also specifically with respect to Lebanon it's 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. Moumneh writes InchThe Side Two tracks are all named 'Qalaq' and then numbered, representing the degrees of layered and complex violence that Lebanon and the Levant have reached in the last couple of years, from the complete and utter failure of the Lebanese sectarian state that has driven the economy to a grinding halt, to it's disastrous handling of the migrant influx from neighbouring failed states, to the endemic corruption that led to the August 2020 port explosion, to the latest chapter of Palestinian erasure and yet another brutally asymmetrical and disproportionate bombing campaign on Gaza.InchQalaq is shaped by a Inchdismantled orchestraInch of musical collaborations, for