Featuring Radwan Moumneh (Jerusalem In My Heart), Nancy Mounir, Yara Asmar,…

When producer, DJ and performer Liliane Chlela moved from Lebanon to Canada in 2021, she was faced with a difficult choice: as an artist of the diaspora, she could 'symbolise' herself or 'assimilate'. She chose neither. The outcome of her choice was reflected in the project I, the hybrid and the antidote. The world premiere of this project will take place during the prestigious Le Guess Who? festival in Utrecht and after that it travels straight on to AB.
For this project, Chlela surrounded herself with a selection of great musicians. Think: Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Montreal) or ½ Jerusalem In My Heart, who mixes classical Arabic music with electronica. Also present: Egyptian producer/violinist Nancy Mounir who totally won us over in 2022 with her timeless debut Nozhet El Nofous (‘a promenade of souls’) on which she mixes historic recordings of the popular singers from 1920’s Cairo with her own music. Also joining the ensemble: multi-instrumentalist/video-artist and puppeteer Yara Asmar (Beiroet) who recently released Synth Waltzes & Accordion Laments upon the world. Lastly, the quartet will be joined by a classical string ensemble.
I, the hybrid and the antidote has been produced as part of Consortium Commissions, an initiative dedicated to spotlighting emerging artists from the Arab world, run by Mophradat.