Radwan Ghazi Moumneh & Frédéric D. Oberland - Eternal Life No End - ليلة ظلماء ملعونة، كحياة طالبيها Radwan Ghazi Moumneh & Frédéric D. Oberland
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Moumneh (Jerusalem In My Heart) and 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, Radwan Ghazi Moumneh and Frédéric D. Oberland’s 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. The Arabic title of Eternal Life No End translates more literally as “A dark, cursed night, like the seekers themselves” and the album is an outcry amidst the oceans of injustice flooding the SWANA region, haunting the lives and visions of vast populations.
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. An array of instrumentation fleshes out the wider soundscapes: daf (a Middle Eastern frame drum) and bongos, a modified electric rababa, shuddering bass and other synthetic filigree from Oberland’s Buchla and Deckard's Dream synths.
1 Squeal of Swine
2 Dagger Eyes
3 A Silence With No Ceiling
4 A Shadow With No Silhouette
5 The Serpent
6 A Dream That Never Arrived
7 Walked and Walked
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