Radwan Ghazi Moumneh & Frédéric D. Oberland
Moumneh & Oberland consolidate a long history of cross-collaboration with 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, their album Eternal Life No End is forged in outrage and lamentation over the current political climate, which is marked by supremacism and genocide. Across two decades, Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Jerusalem In My Heart) has challenged assumptions about what Arabic music can denote, and opened pathways beyond inherited forms. Frédéric D. Oberland (Oiseaux-Tempête) has relentlessly explored improvisation and collective composition over this same period, amassing wide-ranging stylistic and instrumental acumen. Together, they shape a musical dialogue at once intimate and outward-looking, inscribing a sound world fragile yet luminous.
Photography by Robin P. Gould
