Recording: Jerusalem in My Heart

Artist: Jerusalem in My Heart

Song: Wa Ta'atalat Loughat Al Kalam

Recorded at The Music Gallery, September 28, 2019.

Jerusalem in My Heart - Wa Ta'atalat Loughat Al Kalam

Leading off a new season at The Music Gallery, Radwan Ghazi Moumneh deconstructed some sounds from Jerusalem in My Heart's third album Daqa'iq Tudaiq, taking the lush pop elements found in this track's album version into the borderlands between granularized micro-looping and harsh digital distortion, literally breaking speech down into discordantly-stuttering phonemes — all the more fascinating when one realizes that the song's title translates as "The Language Of Speech Has Broken Down". Meanwhile Charles-André Coderre's overlapping 8mm films evoked memory's disintegrating fragmentation, reinventing new meanings from the past's left-over collages.