Album Review: If He Dies, If If If If If If by Jerusalem in My Heart

Jerusalem in My Heart is a swirling, confounding affair. To think of it as a musical act is to undercut the group’s ethos. To even call it a group might be too much of a label. Radwan Ghazi Moumneh is the only permanent, central figure to it all. Moumneh was born in Lebanon, but found his way ….

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Jerusalem in My Heart has been Radwan Ghazi Moumneh’s live audio/visual project since 2005, and that sense of immediacy is integral to his recordings. Even during the most electronic sections of this sophomore album there’s a strong feeling of spontaneity and exploration, as if the audio processing were being used as an instrument or even a collaborator. Moumneh’s made a name for himself as a producer and engineer in the Montreal art rock scene, and combines that -experimental attitude with his Lebanese musical roots.

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Jerusalem in My Heart was not supposed to be a recorded project, but not isn’t never. The project, fronted by Constellation’s in-house mixer Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, began as a live performance involving music as only one part of a larger sensory piece—the full effect was procured with visuals and light projections, a culmination of artforms that actively interacted with setting and audience. For those of us who’ve never seen Moumneh perform, Mo7it Al-Mo7it provided only a slither of the project’s transient context, especially from an institutionalised Western perspective, where it was interpreted with some degree of xenophobia.

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