EL KHAT + JERUSALEM IN MY HEART + VIZ + SEDUCATION

El Khat - a homemade junkyard band led by multi-instrumentalist Eyal El Wahab. Named for the drug used so widely chewed across the Arab Peninsula, The band brings original compositions inspired by the music of the golden age in Aden, Yemen. In 2023, El Khat will play four shows in germany, in support of their second album "Albat Alawi Op.99", a deep dive into Eyal's Yemenite roots and their inspired reimaginings. A careenig orchestra of percussion, horns, electricity and El Wahab's own DIY instruments. Mesmerising retro-futurist sounds.

Jerusalem In My Heart (JIMH)
…is a live audio-visual performance project,with Lebanese producer and musician Radwan Ghazi Moumneh and Montréal based filmmaker Erin Weisgerber at its core.
JIMH is an immersive sonic and visual live experience, with an evolving effort to forge a modern experimental Arabic music wed to hand-made visuals using analog 16mm film at site-specific screen installations.
Musically, JIMH is guided by Moumneh’s melding of ‘traditional’ melismatic singing (in Arabic) and buzuk playing, with modern deployments of modular synthesis, filter banks, electronics, field recordings, etc. Weisgerber manipulates the photographic, chemical, and material properties of 16mm film to transform the world framed through her camera; rendering rhythmic images that exist between figuration and abstraction, external vision and internal landscape.

VÍZ is the new solo project of Réka Csiszér, an exploration of experimental ambient music and liminal sound.
The conceptual audio-visual work ‘Veils’ is an elegiac body horror soundtrack in seven stages, dealing with themes of duality, unreality, the corporeal, language, self & identity, nature, and the pursuit of ancestral provenance.
Iridescent drones, field recordings, analog synthesis, modulated acoustic elements (cello), as well as recorded vocal fragments of Csiszér and her grandmother are intricately woven together, creating an eerie, meditative vision; an ethereal broadcast from some haunted communication facility.

Seducation legt organisch-analoge Tanzmusikplatten aus der ganzen Welt auf und mag’s psychedelisch, u.a. als Resident DJ beim Münchner Psychedelic-Kollektiv Behind the Green Door.