Formed in 2005 as a side step to Mounmeh’s many projects on the go – as band member of Cursed and Pas Chic Chic among others; a leading light of Lebanese avant-garde music circles as well as one of the owners of, and engineers for, the mythic Hotel2Tango studio – the concept has evolved into a solid core trio that now also features French musician and producer Jérémie Regnier and Chilean visual artist and filmmaker Malena Szlam Salazar.
While past versions of the band featured anyone from Moumneh solo to dozens upon dozens of participants, with literally no two performances alike, today’s version of JIMH fully brings to life its master’s unique visions.
Once swearing to never record the project for fear it would take away from the live experience, Moumneh and his new crew took two years to lay their debut to rest. The result, Mo7it Al-Mo7itm is a scintillating aural experience anchored by Arabic chants and vocalizations that encircle a Middle Eastern musical center whose guts have been reinterpreted synthetically and reconstructed acoustically, psychedelically, and electronically, while treated externally through Salazar’s jaw-dropping photo-filmscapes.
Jerusalem In My Heart
March 15 | Le National
1220, Ste. Catherine E.
with 2boys.tv
jerusaleminmyheart.com/