Jerusalem In My Heart + Farida Amadou

  • Kings Place & Supersonic Festival presents Jerusalem In My Heart (JIMH) an immersive audio-visual performance project, with Lebanese-Canadian producer/musician Radwan Ghazi and Montréal-based filmmaker Erin Weisgerber at its core. Jerusalem In My Heart is an ever-evolving effort to forge a modern experimental Arabic music, fused with analog film using hand-made processes and live projection techniques, that combine to produce multi-media works of intensive cross-cultural and socio-political artistry. JIMH is guided by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh’s melding of Arabic song traditions with modern deployments of modular synthesis and electronics, often featuring his own buzuk-playing, Arabic lyric-writing and melismatic singing. Erin Weisgerber manipulates the properties of 16mm film to expand the materiality and narrative scope of the music. Farida Amadou (b.1989) is a self taught bass player based in Liège, Belgium. The electric bass is her main instrument since 2011. In 2013, she has started to play a lot of different musical genres, including blues, jazz and hip-hop. Soon Farida started to dive into improvisation music, and got rapidly identified by local collectif and musicians. After a year (2017) as bass player in belgian punk band Cocaine Piss, Farida decided to focus on her solo improvisation practice and collaborations with musicians like Steve Noble, Thurston Moore, Peter Brötzmann, Floris Vanhoof, Julien Desprez among other occasional featuring such as Mette Rasmussen, Linda Sharrock, Chris Pitsiokos, Eve Risser, Alex Ward, Jerusalem in My Heart,…
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