Radwan Ghazi Moumneh is a Canadian recording engineer, producer, and musician. Moumneh's family fled the

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for the

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, where he grew up, moving to

Montreal Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cit ...

in 1993. Throughout the mid 1990s and early 2000s Moumneh recorded, and toured with, a number of Montreal-based hardcore and punk bands such as The Black Hand and IRE. In 2004 Moumneh established the

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recording studio with

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, and

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(the later two are core members of

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and Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra). In 2005 Moumneh began performing live as

Jerusalem in My Heart Jerusalem in My Heart (JIMH) is a live audio-visual performance project, with Montréal-based producer and musician Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (co-owner of The Hotel2Tango recording studio in Montreal) and Montréal-based filmmaker Erin Weisgerber. Jer ...

with a number of collaborators, a project with whom he has released two full-length records. Jerusalem In My Heart also released a collaborative album with

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- (whom Moumneh had previously recorded). As a recording engineer and producer Moumneh has worked with an assortment of acts including

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, ...And the Saga Continues,

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, and

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. In 2011 Ghazi Moumneh collaborated with Alexis O'Hara to create music for Montreal performance art drag duo, 2boys.tv's processional HIV/AIDS memorial ''Tightrope (2011-2016)'' which premiered at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto.

Discography

Jerusalem in My Heart Jerusalem in My Heart (JIMH) is a live audio-visual performance project, with Montréal-based producer and musician Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (co-owner of The Hotel2Tango recording studio in Montreal) and Montréal-based filmmaker Erin Weisgerber. Jer ...

* Qalaq LP/CD/BOXSET (2021,

Constellation Records (Canada) Constellation Records is a Canadian independent record label based in Montreal, Quebec. It has released albums by many post-rock bands, including Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band and Do Make ...

) * Daqa'iq Tudaiq LP/CD (2018,

) *'' If He Dies, If If If If If If'' LP/CD (2015,

) *

LP/CD (2015,

Secretly Canadian Secretly Canadian is an American independent record label based in Bloomington, Indiana, part of the Secretly Group. The Secretly Group includes record labels Dead Oceans and Jagjaguwar as well as a music publisher known as Secretly Publis ...

) * Mo7it Al-Mo7it LP/CD (2013,

)

Radwan Ghazi Moumneh & Eric Chenaux

* The Sentimental Moves LP (2012, Grapefruit (music label))

Land of Kush

*Monogamy LP (2010,

) *Against The Day LP/CD (2009,

)

Pas Chic Chic

* Au Contraire (album) LP (2008, Semprini Records)

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LP/CD (2005, Goodfellow Records) *

LP/CD (2003,

Deathwish Inc. Deathwish Inc. is an American independent record label conceived by Jacob Bannon of Converge and Tre McCarthy in 2000. Their first release was '' Deeper the Wound'', a split album between Converge and Japanese band Hellchild on April 23, 2001. D ...

)

The Black Hand

* War Monger (album) LP/CD (2002, Scorched Earth Policy Records) * Pulling Your Strings (album) LP/CD (2001, Scorched Earth Policy Records)

IRE

* What Seed, What Root (album) LP/CD (1999, CrimethInc.) * I Discern an Overtone of Tragedy in Your Voice (album) LP/CD (1998, The Mountain Collective For Independent Artists, Ltd.) * Adversity Into Triumph (album) LP/CD (1996, Ellington Records (music label))

References

Living people Canadian record producers Anglophone Quebec people Musicians from Montreal Year of birth missing (living people) Canadian film score composers {{Canada-musician-stub