‘Songs of the Next War’ are personal interpretations of Jewish-Arab war songs recorded in Israel during the Six-Day War period (1967). These songs, sung in Jewish-Arabic dialects to Arabic folk tunes, were not included in any of the main collections of Israeli war songs and were forgotten over the years. After being re-discovered, the songs were sampled and processed into new musical under the title “Songs of the Next War”. In relation to these musical pieces, visual artist Dor Zlekha Levy had created original video compositions based on personal war archives. The overall project portrays nowadays’ public atmosphere in Israel, where dreams of common reconciliation are confronted to an endless loop of war that we seem to be trapped in.

The project was developed by Dor Zlekha Levy in a unique process together with the musicians involved: Ofer Tisser, Aviad Zinemanas, Binyamin Oren, Omer Schonberger, Yuval Shenhar, Omer Luz, Eran Feller.  All records were sampled from the private collection of Uri ‘Mixmonster’ Wertheim.

Ensemble of Love & Terror is an experimental music project of Amir Bolzman - sound artist and instrument builder based in Jerusalem and Ariel Armoni - Multi percussionist and architect based in London.

Composer, Sound Artist, Producer & Educator.
Born 1985 in Brazil. Based in Jerusalem, Israel.  
Studied new music at the Naggar school in Musrara, Jerusalem, and Graduated with honours in July 2010. He then moved to the Netherlands and studied at the Sonology Department of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague where he received his Bachelor and Master Degree's, graduating in 2015. Since 2016 Amir is a faculty member of the Naggar school for new music in Jerusalem, teaching electronic music and composition, in groups and in private. Amir has been active as a performer around the world and in Israel as a curator, record producer, festival organiser and artistic director, alongside his main musical activities as composer-performer-educator.
Amir runs the label "Hedim" which releases local new form music, acting as an embodiment of the fusion between a publishing group, record production group and an event production group.
He is a co-curator and resident at the Mamuta art & media research center.

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