Moumneh, Radwan Ghazi & Frédéric D. Oberland: Eternal Life No End LP

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Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Jerusalem In My Heart) and Frédéric D.Oberland (Oiseaux-Tempête) consolidate a long history of cross-collaboration on this debut studio album as a duo: a compelling synthesis of their respective and shared sensibilities. Blending juddering electronics with acoustic instruments like buzuk, rababa, clarineau, and saxophone, peppered with Moumneh's Arabic singing, the album is forged in outrage and lamentation over our suprematist and genocidal political present. Morphing between the sensory and the suppressed, their debut album summons a poetic musical proclamation of transfigured reality and social amnesia. These seven tracks evolved collaboratively over two years, beginning as a series of duets that Moumneh instigated at Montréal’s Hotel2Tango studio in summer 2023. Like Dante and Virgil in "Dante's Inferno", Oberland and Moumneh's compositions chart an emotional vortex, as dream-time seeps into trancelike percussion and hypnotic melodies, channeling collective urgencies that ripple through the currents of Radwan's voice and Arabic lyrics. Oberland's passages of saxophone and clarineau evoke shamanic exhortations of evil, while Moumneh’s buzuk strums and swarms, often through electronic processing, with tempestuous mourning about unfolding tragedies.