{"product_id":"jerusalem-in-my-heart_qalaq_2021_mdl","title":"Qalaq","description":"Jerusalem In My Heart, one of the 21st century's most uncompromising and dynamic projects in avant-garde Arab-Levantine art and music, presents a new album of viscerally expressive electronics and electroacoustics, embedded with spoken and sung Arabic, bouzouki playing, and electronic sounds and sound design by Lebanese-Canadian musician and producer Radwan Ghazi Moumneh. Qalaq is the most varied and finely crafted Jerusalem In MyHeart album to date, featuring a different collaborator on almost every track, including Lucrecia Dalt, Tim Hecker, Moor Mother, Greg Fox, Rabih Beaini, Alanis Obomsawin, and more. \"Qalaq\" is an Arabic word with many semantic nuances, but Moumneh particularly identifies it as a profound unease – at various obvious global levels, but also specifically concerning Lebanon: the collapse of its domestic politics, economy and infrastructure, the tragedy and aftermath of the 2020 Beirut port explosion; a complex geography and geopolitics that continue to condemn the country to corruption, disruption, destabilization and violence. The tracks on the second side are all named Qalaq, then numbered, representing the degrees of stratified violence that Lebanon and the Levant have faced over the past two years. Qalaq mirrors Daqa'iq Tudaiq, the previous album released in 2018, where one side of the album features a 20-minute, four-movement piece recorded live in Beirut with a 15-person acoustic orchestra. In contrast, Qalaq was composed with a dismantled orchestra across the dissociated\/isolated space-time of lockdown. Moumneh composed the album as a bare skeleton, giving each artist a section to deconstruct, edit, reinterpret and recompose as they wished, then mixed these parts with his own to reshape the whole with newly found coherences. Qalaq is marked by a variety of artistic processes and a diversity of approaches, while retaining a fundamental sonic aesthetic and a deep synthesis of emotional and narrative power. The album's visuals, particularly Myriam Boulous's color photograph on the cover capturing a scene during Beirut's October 2019 revolution, further contextualize the specificity and lamentations of Qalaq; the deep unease at its heart.","brand":"Jerusalem in My Heart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55312047014232,"sku":null,"price":23814634.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/0666561015817.jpg?v=1760408889","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/jerusalem-in-my-heart_qalaq_2021_mdl","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}