A Faithful Daughter brings together Lebanese-Canadian composer, producer and musician Radwan Ghazi Moumneh with Polish experimental duo BNNT. Recorded at Montréal’s Hotel2Tango studio in December 2018, the album remained shelved for nearly eight years before finally finding its way to release through Ruptured and Poland’s Instant Classic.

Best known as the founder of Jerusalem In My Heart and co-founder of Hotel2Tango, Moumneh has spent more than two decades developing a practice that connects Arabic musical traditions with experimental sound. Alongside his own work, he has produced and engineered recordings by artists from across the international experimental music community. On A Faithful Daughter, he performs on modular synthesizer and buzuk while also recording and mixing the sessions.

Since forming in 2008, BNNT (Konrad Smoleński and Daniel Szwed) has worked across music and contemporary art. Their projects have taken the form of records, installations, films and collaborative performances, often questioning conventional ideas of authorship and the role of the band itself. Albums such as Multiverse and Middle West embraced collaboration not simply as a way of making music, but as the central idea behind the work.

https://bnnt.bandcamp.com/album/a-faithful-daughter

https://bnnt.pl

https://www.instagram.com/radwanghazimoumneh

https://www.instagram.com/b_n_n_t

Photo: Michal Algebra/Samantha Marble